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Job Title: Sales Tax Accountant, Indirect Tax

Location: Davidson, NC (Hybrid)

About us

Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies – from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers – to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.

Job Overview:

As Ingersoll Rand continues to acquire and integrate businesses, the indirect tax team’s scope continues to evolve. Step into the Sales Tax Accountant, Indirect Tax role and take broad ownership of North American sales and use tax compliance while gaining exposure to analytics, systems, audits, process improvement, entity changes, and cross-functional partnership. As part of the Finance Shared Service Center, you’ll support entities operating across SAP and Oracle environments while helping integrate new entities, strengthen processes, advance tax technology initiatives, and improve how the team uses systems and analytics. You’ll ensure monthly compliance data is prepared accurately and on time, property tax returns and annual filings meet required deadlines, and tax notices, audits, and inquiries are handled with urgency and precision. You’ll also own assigned legal entities, analyze compliance data, identify discrepancies, and coordinate with the third-party provider responsible for preparing and filing returns—helping ensure filings are completed accurately and without penalties or interest.

This professional will also support sales and use tax audits by gathering data, researching issues, communicating with auditors, and partnering with leadership to resolve open items and reduce potential assessments. The right candidate will be detail-oriented while understanding the broader business impact. They will manage competing deadlines, identify issues within complex data, stay ahead of state notices, communicate clearly, and bring forward ideas for improvement. Experience with multi-state sales and use tax filings, property tax, tax engines, ERP projects, and systems such as SAP, Oracle, Vertex, Avalara, and/or Certify Tax will stand out.

This is an excellent opportunity for an indirect tax professional seeking ownership, variety, systems exposure, and the ability to influence how indirect tax work is managed across a growing North American business.

Responsibilities:

• Perform:
• Sales and use Tax returns
• GST/HST/PST returns for Canadian operations
• Property tax renditions
• Other state Annual reports and miscellaneous license returns
• Related general ledger account reconciliations
• Execution of timely tax payments through Accounts Payable team
• Manage exemption certificate maintenance for both customers and vendors
• Research sales/use and property tax queries to ensure compliance
• Sales/Use/Property advisory for a variety of departments
• Responsible for reconciling the general ledger accounts related to the tax returns listed above.
• Assist with pulling support and coordinating with auditors for state sales tax and property tax audits
• Other duties related to supporting the indirect tax function as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Accounting or Finance
• 4+ years experience in indirect tax and general ledger accounting
• 2+ years of hands-on sales and use tax compliance experience, to include preparation, review, analysis, and reconciliation of transactional tax data.
• Experience supporting multi-state sales and use tax filings or compliance activities.
• Experience identifying discrepancies, researching issues, and supporting timely filings with minimal penalties or interest.

Core Competencies

• Strong computer and data-management skills
• Experience with indirect tax tools such as Vertex, Avalara, or similar platforms
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and issue-resolution skills
• Compliance-focused mindset with the ability to consistently follow policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements
• Resilient and adaptable, with the ability to manage tight, shifting deadlines and work effectively through ambiguity
• Collaborative team player capable of partnering across functions, including Business Units, Direct Tax, Legal, HR, and Shared Services, across multiple locations

Preferences:

• Preferred SAP experience; Oracle, Excel, and Word
• Experience supporting sales and use tax filings across a broad jurisdictional footprint, ideally most or all 50 states.
• Property tax experience.
• Experience with Vertex, Avalara, Certify Tax, SAP, Oracle, or tax engine/ERP projects.
• Canada indirect tax exposure.

Travel and Work Arrangements

• This position is hybrid from Davidson, NC

What We Offer

At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency.

Ingersoll Rand is committed to achieving workforce diversity reflective of our communities. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.