Senior Manager, US State Taxes

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This is a great opportunity to contribute to the Tax Department of the London Stock Exchange Group as a Senior Manager of US State and Local Income Tax!

Role Purpose: This is a US tax senior manager role, based in New York City (hybrid), reporting into the Americas Tax Leader. This position has tax compliance, reporting, planning and controversy responsibilities for US state and local income tax matters. This position would assist in the timely reporting, quality, and consistency of LSEG's state and local income taxes. It involves managing multiple projects and initiatives at once.

Key Responsibilities

• Review complex unitary, combined and separate company state returns, extensions and estimated payments, working with outsourced provider. Coordinate payment request and filings. Collect apportionment information.

• Must be comfortable with GL accounting, able to prepare journal entries, and reconcile tax accounts as needed.

• Assist with preparation and/or review of complex state tax schedules related to the state tax provision process, including estimated quarterly state tax payments, effective tax rates, tax accruals, tax attributes, valuation allowances and payables account roll-forward balances on a quarterly and annual basis.

• Assist with preparation and/or review of tax schedules measuring impact of state tax legislation, court cases, and rulings affecting current taxes and effective tax rates on a quarterly and annual basis.

• Develop and implement ways to automate manual tasks using existing financial or tax systems and emerging technologies.

• Respond to inquiries from state authorities and manage the state tax compliance notices tracker.

• Respond to audit IDRs and manage the audit process. Collaborate and communicate with state tax auditors.

• Maintain state and local income tax calendar

• Research state tax issues

• Assist with acquisitions and dispositions as necessary

• Assist in the coordination and completion of other state tax compliance projects as assigned.

Key Skills & Experience

• Minimum of seven years of corporate state tax and/or public accounting experience

• B.S. in Accounting or Finance

• Masters in taxation and/or CPA preferred

• Advanced Excel skills required

• ERP systems experience preferably with SAP, Oracle and/or HFM

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills required

• Strong organization and project management skills required

• Must work in a team-oriented, fast-paced environment

• Effective interaction with other team members and external advisers is imperative.

Compensation/Benefits Information:

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

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Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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