Indirect Tax Accountant

Summary

Join Lush Cosmetics as an Indirect Tax Accountant and play a key role in ensuring timely and accurate sales tax filings for 270 retail stores across Canada, Puerto Rico, and the USA. Collaborate with various business teams, including Digital, Retail, Manufacturing, and Admin/Corporate. This remote position, with a preference for Vancouver-based candidates, requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and excellent communication. You will prepare monthly sales tax calculations, journal entries, and reconciliations, as well as state/city excise tax returns. The ideal candidate will have at least two years of accounting and tax experience and proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google applications. Lush offers a unique work environment focused on fair-trade sourcing, sustainable communities, and giving back.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of accounting and tax experience
• Proven organizational skills with an attention to accuracy and detail
• Proactive approach and initiative
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritize
• Can work effectively in a time-pressured environment
• Excellent Microsoft Office and Google application skills
• A model of honesty, openness, transparency, and integrity in every dimension of your role
• Flexible around assigned tasks and committed to the broader objective of the team

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly complex sales tax calculations, journal entries and reconciliations required for accurate tax reporting utilizing the sales tax software and coordinate the remittance payments
• Prepare the state/city excise tax returns including business & occupancy tax returns, gross receipts tax returns, commerce tax returns and annual business tax returns, as required
• Support and gather information for the sales and use tax notices and audits (internal and external)
• Collaborate with the business to ensure sales tax compliance for all store openings, relocation, closures, and new initiatives and renew seller tax permits
• If based in Vancouver, monitor mailroom and group emails for seller tax permit renewals, notices and audits
• Participate and assist with any ad hoc tax and finance responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Undergraduate Degree in business and pursuit of an accounting designation
• Experience with Avalara sales tax software an asset
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP
• Thriving with a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our staff and committed to inclusion

Benefits

• We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence , contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well
• Base Salary Range$70,000 — $75,000 CAD