Senior Accountant - Tax

Would you like to be part of a focused, dedicated team? Do you want to work and grow with other motivated, ambitious people?

Wagner Equipment Co. offers challenging career opportunities, extensive training and employee development along with an opportunity to grow your career and thrive under Wagner’s reputation for excellence. We offer excellent benefits and supply you with the tools you need to maximize your potential and grow within Wagner.

Benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Retirement Plans - 401K and Roth 401K , eligible employees can receive a company contribution up to 7%
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO) Plan - Up to 96 hours of PTO in your first year + 8 company paid holidays
• Additional Benefits include: Unum Supplemental life Insurance, Aflac Critical Illness + Accidental Insurance, ID WatchDog and discounted employee phone plans.
• CEFCU- Citizens Equity First Credit Union - Employees have access to services include payroll deductions savings, accounts, loans, VISA card, and more.

The Senior Accountant - Tax supports the Sales Tax Supervisor and the Senior Accounting Manager - Tax by ensuring the timely and accurate filing of tax returns and related research, review, analysis, preparation, and account reconciliations. Specific tax compliance areas could include but are not limited to: corporate income, federal excise, sales and use, gross margin, SMM (Special Mobile Machinery), Texas heavy equipment, and Texas diesel surcharge.

Pay Rate: $52,908 - $72,752 annually.
Pay is dependent on education and experience.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Collects information and prepares various returns for the tax areas noted in the Position Summary
• Involved with special tax-related projects
• Reconciles various general ledger accounts monthly
• Prepares schedules as needed for annual audit and tax returns
• Researches and responds to various tax law questions
• Answers calls from both internal and external customers
• Develops and directs maintenance of record-keeping system for compiling tax information
• Ensures timely and accurate payment of tax liability
• Prepares and records journal entries
• Takes lead role with audits, research, and other issues

Required Education and Experience:

• College Degree Required
• CPA or Master’s degree in accounting or tax preferred
• 3-5 years of practical experience in corporate income tax or sales and use tax and related areas, including tax return preparation, filing and related data gathering and analysis

Physical Demands & Competencies:

• Standing, walking, talking, sitting, use of hands & hearing
• Data Entry, telephone, reading/writing, reasoning, organizational, communication & math skills
• Basic DBS, Wynne, CRM, ET / SIS / SIS Web / STW knowledge
• Safety & Product Knowledge
• Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
• Basic Microsoft Word, Access, and PowerPoint knowledge

Work Environment:

• Indoors
• Noise: Quiet

Other Duties:

Job Offers are contingent upon all required pre-employment screenings which may include but are not limited to background checks, drug/alcohol testing, fit for duty testing, and any other job-related tests/screenings.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.

Wagner Equipment Co. is an EEO/AA/Veterans/Disabled employer

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)