Manager US Indirect Tax

Would you like to influence the way Akamai's business is operating?

Are you excited about being a multi-jurisdictional tax practitioner?

Join our Tax Team!

Our Tax Team is a partner for Akamai's business, supporting its operations through tax compliance reporting and advisory. We influence more than 30 countries identifying opportunities, mitigating risks and collaborating with external tax providers to constantly improve our business.

Partner with the best

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to investigate US state tax laws contributing to both state/local requirements for US sales/use/personal property tax. There will be a focus on audits, controversy, tax incentives, and tax technology.

As a Manager Tax, you will be responsible for:

• Directing a team of tax professionals, driving execution across tax compliance, reporting, and strategy while fostering continuous professional development
• Liaising with external tax service providers, ensuring compliance, managing audits/controversy, exploring tax incentives, and improving tax technology use cases
• Conducting tax research for a variety of US indirect tax topics (Bloomberg)
• Interacting with tax authorities to resolve notices and/or requests for information and analyzing tax accounts and review necessary reconciliations
• Interacting with other Finance teams and provide expertise to support financial operations in relation to tax requirements
• Reviewing indirect tax compliance and review and approve electronic funds transfers (EFTs) to pay taxes that are due
• Reviewing exemption certificates to ensure the company only pays sales tax to the proper jurisdictions
• Adopting and contributing to best practice guidelines to drive continuous improvements to processes

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5+ years of experience in US indirect tax compliance/consulting process and a bachelors degree or it's equivalent
• Have experience as a CPA (optional)
• Demonstrate a solid understanding with excel
• Possess solid analytical and quantitative capabilities with an ability to provide data-backed analysis
• Be able to create clear and concise documentation and work-papers
• Be good at managing priorities and multiple tasks to reach deadlines
• Demonstrate experience leading/managing a team

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $108,600 - $195,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.