Customer Experience Sales & Use Tax Specialist

R10065439 Customer Experience Sales & Use Tax Specialist (Open) Location: Kennesaw, GA (SAF) - Management - South BSC How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW? The Division Sales & Use Tax Specialist is responsible for daily activities related to assuring customers are taxed properly, exemptions are properly documented, customer tax disputes are resolved and use tax is properly applied. This will require a seasoned professional who is strong technically, possesses good analytical skills and is experienced in improving systems and processes. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Include the following: Determine proper taxability of customers and transactions. Review and approve exemption certificates provided by customers in order to substantiate customer exemptions. Maintain exemption certificates in exemption certificate maintenance software. Provide vendors with properly executed exemption certificates where applicable. Perform state specific sales and use tax research. Support the efforts to integrate newly acquired businesses into the Company’s sales tax function. Resolve customer tax disputes with a strong customer service focus. Provide Corporate Tax Department with support for sales and use tax audits. Support Corporate Tax Department in managing customer tax exemptions in sales tax software. Other related duties. ________________________ Are you a MATCH? QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The Sales & Use Tax Specialist will have established a proven track record of success in prior sales and use tax roles. To be successful, the Sales & Use Tax Specialist should have strong technical experience and knowledge of sales and use tax. The successful candidate must demonstrate skills required to drive continuous improvement of processes and foster a team environment. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The successful candidate will possess: Strong organizational, team-building and people skills. The ability to work and navigate within a complex matrixed organization. Able to demonstrate strong skills and the ability to assume increasing responsibilities in a rapidly-changing environment. Ability to understand the impact of new technologies on processes and costs. Experience integrating new technologies into day-to-day operations. Vision, creativity and a quality mindset. EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Experience with SAP and Vertex preferred. Ability to manage multiple priorities and juggle between divisional, local and Corporate management and demands. ________________________ We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees. We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children, including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates. Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees’ dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children. _________________________ Your differences enhance our performance At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world. _________________________ Equal Employment Opportunity Information We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com. _________________________ California Privacy Notice Airgas, an Air Liquide company, is a leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, as well as hardgoods and related products; one of the largest U.S. suppliers of safety products. Through the passion and diversity of its 18,000 associates, Airgas fosters a culture of safety, customer success, sustainability and innovation. Airgas associates are empowered to share ideas, take initiative and make decisions. Airgas is a subsidiary of Air Liquide, a world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health. Air Liquide is present in 78 countries with approximately 64,500 associates globally. Join us for a stimulating experience: you’ll find a world of learning and development opportunities where inventiveness is at the heart of what we do, in an open, collaborative and respectful environment.