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Cohen & Co.

Tax Manager, Sales & Use Tax

Buffalo, NY

$80K - $150K/yr

Sales & Use Tax Compliance & Consulting * Manage and review Sales & Use Tax returns across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy and timely filing. * Oversee return data gathering ...

Cohen & Co.

Tax Manager, Sales & Use Tax

Chicago, IL

$80K - $150K/yr

Sales & Use Tax Compliance & Consulting * Manage and review Sales & Use Tax returns across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy and timely filing. * Oversee return data gathering ...

Cohen & Co.

Tax Manager, Sales & Use Tax

Cleveland, OH · On-site

$80K - $150K/yr

Sales & Use Tax Compliance & Consulting * Manage and review Sales & Use Tax returns across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy and timely filing. * Oversee return data gathering ...

DH Pace

Sales & Use Tax Manager

Olathe, KS · On-site

$107.30K - $140.70K/yr

DH Pace Company, Inc., is seeking a Sales & Use Tax Manager based at our Corporate Office in Olathe, KS . Looking for a minimum ten (10) years' Sales & Use Tax experience. Minimum of BA-Accounting or ...

Macy's

Director, Sales & Use Tax

Springdale, OH

$113.70K - $189.40K/yr

Job Overview The Director of Sales & Use Tax leads the strategic oversight and administration of all sales and use tax operations across Macy's and Bloomingdale's locations. The role ensures ...

Cohen & Co.

Tax Manager, Sales & Use Tax

Akron, OH · On-site

$80K - $150K/yr

Sales & Use Tax Compliance & Consulting * Manage and review Sales & Use Tax returns across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy and timely filing. * Oversee return data gathering ...

Cohen & Co.

Tax Manager, Sales & Use Tax

Denver, CO

$80K - $150K/yr

Sales & Use Tax Compliance & Consulting * Manage and review Sales & Use Tax returns across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy and timely filing. * Oversee return data gathering ...

Macy's

Director, Sales & Use Tax

Springdale, OH · On-site

$113.70K - $189.40K/yr

Job Overview The Director of Sales & Use Tax leads the strategic oversight and administration of all sales and use tax operations across Macy's and Bloomingdale's locations. The role ensures ...

Bakertilly

Manager- Sales/Use Tax

Fort Worth, TX

$106.40K - $139.40K/yr

The Sales and Use Tax Manager's primary responsibilities are to identify Sales and Use tax savings opportunities for multi-state clients and direct staff in day to-day operations. The incumbent will ...

Cohen & Co.

Tax Manager, Sales & Use Tax

Youngstown, OH · On-site

$80K - $150K/yr

Sales & Use Tax Compliance & Consulting * Manage and review Sales & Use Tax returns across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy and timely filing. * Oversee return data gathering ...

Cohen & Co.

Tax Manager, Sales & Use Tax

Detroit, MI · On-site

$80K - $150K/yr

Sales & Use Tax Compliance & Consulting * Manage and review Sales & Use Tax returns across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy and timely filing. * Oversee return data gathering ...

Cohen & Co.

Tax Manager, Sales & Use Tax

New York, NY · On-site

$80K - $150K/yr

Sales & Use Tax Compliance & Consulting * Manage and review Sales & Use Tax returns across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy and timely filing. * Oversee return data gathering ...

DH Pace

Sales & Use Tax Manager

Olathe, KS · On-site

$107.30K - $140.70K/yr

DH Pace Company, Inc., is seeking a Sales & Use Tax Manager based at our Corporate Office in Olathe, KS . Looking for a minimum ten (10) years' Sales & Use Tax experience. Minimum of BA-Accounting or ...

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To excel in a Sales Use Tax role, you need a thorough understanding of sales and use tax regulations, strong analytical skills, and a background in accounting or finance. Familiarity with tax compliance software, ERP systems like SAP or Oracle, and professional certifications such as CPA or CMI are highly beneficial. Attention to detail, effective communication, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines are critical soft skills in this position. These abilities are crucial for ensuring accurate tax compliance, minimizing audit risks, and maintaining smooth financial operations for the organization.

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Tax Manager, Sales & Use Tax

Tax Manager, Sales & Use Tax

Cohen & Co.

Buffalo, NY

$80K - $150K/yr

Full-time

PTO

Posted 13 days ago

Job description

What You'll Do

As a Manager on our Sales & Use Tax team, you'll have the opportunity to work directly with a diverse client base on complex multi-state indirect tax matters while serving as a strategic advisor and true business partner. This role offers strong visibility with clients and firm leadership, exposure to a wide variety of consulting and planning projects, and the ability to make a meaningful impact beyond day-to-day compliance work.

At Cohen & Co, our collaborative environment gives Managers the opportunity to mentor and develop team members, build trusted client relationships, and continue growing their own careers in a firm that values accessibility, flexibility, and long-term professional development.

Sales & Use Tax Compliance & Consulting

  • Manage and review Sales & Use Tax returns across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy and timely filing.

  • Oversee return data gathering, reconciliations, and workpaper documentation (including tie-outs to GL/sales data where applicable).

  • Support clients in optimizing indirect tax compliance processes and controls to improve accuracy and reduce risk.

  • Advise clients on nexus, taxability (including product/service and SaaS/digital goods considerations, as applicable), exemptions, and audit defense.

  • Assist with responses to state and local notices, information requests, and audit inquiries.

  • Lead voluntary disclosure agreements (VDAs), nexus studies, exposure reviews, and related remediation planning.

  • Identify and quantify risks and opportunities (e.g., refund opportunities, exemption gaps) and recommend the next practical steps.

  • Serve as a technical resource for indirect tax matters, providing guidance on research, positions, and documentation.

  • Draft and review client deliverables (memos, notices responses, audit support packages, process documentation) with clear, business-focused recommendations.

  • Maintain awareness of legislative and regulatory changes impacting Sales & Use Tax and proactively communicate impacts to clients and internal teams.

  • Support indirect tax technology and data initiatives, including use of Avalara for rate/taxability configuration, returns support, and reporting (as applicable by client).

  • Partner with clients to validate product/service mapping and taxability decisions within Avalara and related systems.

Client Experience

  • Act as primary client contact, delivering proactive, high-quality service and managing expectations across timelines, scope, and deliverables.

  • Build trusted-advisor relationships by understanding client operations, data flows, and indirect tax risk areas.

  • Communicate complex tax concepts clearly to clients and internal teams, tailoring messages to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Team Leadership & Development

  • Review work of senior and staff accountants; provide coaching, feedback, and technical guidance to drive quality and development.

  • Manage engagement workflows, budgets (where applicable), and deadlines; coordinate resources to ensure on-time, accurate delivery.

  • Contribute to team training, standard workpapers, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Who You Are

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required;Master's degree in Taxation/Accountinga plus.

  • CPA and/or JD preferred, but not required.

  • 5+ years of progressive Sales & Use Tax (indirect tax) experience, including managing or leading engagements (public accounting, industry, or combination).

  • Strong multi-state technical knowledge (nexus, taxability, exemptions, audit defense, VDAs) with the ability to apply concepts to real client facts.

  • Experience with indirect tax technology/tools preferred, including Avalara (e.g., mapping/taxability configuration support, reporting, returns support) and strong Excel/data skills.

  • Strong communication, project management, and people leadership skills; comfortable as a primary client contact.

Who We Are

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At Cohen & Co our foundational principles offer insight into how we achieve an inclusive, growth-oriented culture that fuels the success of our firm, our clients and our people. In particular, we honor our foundational principle of "great people first" by:

  • Championing the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion by embracing the unique stories, backgrounds, perspectives and ideas that come from our people; and

  • Offering a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewardspackage, which allows each employee to use the benefits that best suits their needs. Our offerings go beyond standard options, including time off outside of your standard PTO to give back to the community, annual discretionary merit increases and bonuses, talent development resources to tap into growth opportunities, and so much more!

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Estimated Base Range: $80,000 - $150,000*

*Base compensation offered to candidates are determined based on factors such as candidate's relevant skillset, experience, licensure, and certifications, as well as job responsibilities, geography, market considerations, and organizational needs. At Cohen & Co, we don't stop at setting ourselves apart by offering competitive base compensation. As part of our 'great people first' foundational principle, our firm offers a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that allows each employee to design a package that best suits their needs and goes beyond standard options, including time off outside of your standard PTO to recharge and give back to the community, annual discretionary merit increases and bonuses, talent development resources to tap into growth opportunities.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of thought and background to build an inclusive and energized culture and better meet the needs of our clients.

Agency recruiters may not submit unsolicited candidate information or resumes to any Cohen & Co employee without a recruiting services contract first being entered into with the Cohen & Co Talent Acquisition Team; see policy here.

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