Senior Tax Analyst Indirect Taxes

Join Emerson's global tax team as a Senior Tax Analyst, Indirect Taxes, and make an impact across a complex, multi-state business environment! In this role, you will drive sales and use tax compliance, support audit defense efforts, provide guidance on complex tax matters, and identify opportunities to reduce risk and improve processes. You'll partner with teams across finance, operations, and IT to enhance tax technology, support automation initiatives, and help deliver efficient, compliant tax operations.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Prepare and review state and local sales/use tax returns for multiple operating business units, ensuring timely and accurate filing.
• Assist in coordination and management of sales/use tax audits and work closely with division personnel and taxing authorities to achieve lowest tax liability permissible.
• Prepare and file personal property tax returns for major plant facilities and sales offices in assigned states
• Provide legal research, consultation, and opinions regarding sales/use tax issues to the operating divisions.
• Provide guidance to operations, accounts payable and other cross functional teams to ensure proper taxability on purchases and adherence to sales and use tax laws.
• Work with IT and tax team to transform data and automate processes related to the sales and use tax compliance.
• Serve as the focal point for coordinating system testing related to Oracle and Vertex patches, enhancements, and upgrades.
• Prepare and provide sales tax training presentations for operating personnel.
• Other miscellaneous sale and use tax responsibilities include, but not limited to, maintaining Vertex taxability matrix, responding to sales tax notices and customer requests for sales tax refunds.
  

Who You Are:You promote a sense of urgency while establishing and ensuring individual accountability within the team. You deal comfortably with the uncertainty of changes. You model collaboration across the organization. You deliver messages in a clear, compelling, and concise manner. You readily distinguish between what’s relevant and what’s important to make sense of complex situations. For This Role, You Will Need:

• Bachelor of Science/Arts in Accounting, Finance or Business required

• Minimum 3 years with public accounting and/or large corporation with multi-divisional, multi-state and multi-national structure

Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:

• CPA or CMI preferred
• Knowledge of Vertex is a plus
  

Our Culture & Commitment to You:

At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.

We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing flexible, competitive benefits plans to meet you and your family’s physical, mental, financial, and social needs. We provide a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage, Employee Assistance Program, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.

Our compensation philosophy is simple: we pay a competitive base salary, within the local market in which we operate, and reward performance during our annual merit review process. The salary range for this role is $85,000 - $110,000 annually, commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role.