The Role
The Finance Team supports and empowers Palantirians through day-to-day operations and creative problem-solving. The US Indirect Tax Manager is responsible for supporting the company’s US indirect tax function across a dynamic multi-state business environment. This role requires a strong analytical mindset and technical background with the ability to navigate complex and evolving tax matters with a practical business-oriented approach. The ideal candidate is detail oriented, solutions driven and comfortable working cross functionally to support accurate compliance, effective risk management and scalable tax processes.
Core Responsibilities
- Serve as a key indirect tax advisor to internal business partners, providing clear, well-reasoned guidance on complex sales and use tax matters across multiple jurisdictions.
- Analyze and interpret state and local tax laws, regulations, and administrative guidance to form defensible positions in complex areas, including SaaS, digital products, and evolving tax frameworks.
- Exercise sound judgment in gray areas of tax law by evaluating available guidance and evidence to support consistent and audit-ready positions.
- Review externally prepared sales and use tax returns in detail, focusing on numerical accuracy and the reasonableness of the overall position.
- Prepare and maintain sales tax account reconciliations to ensure accurate balance sheet reporting.
- Manage US indirect tax compliance activities including business license tax, gross receipts tax, property tax and related state and local indirect tax filings.
- Identify systemic issues, risk areas, and control gaps by connecting data across reports, systems, and filings.
- Lead and manage state and local sales and use tax audits from end-to-end, including direct interaction with auditors, negotiation of findings, and resolution of disputes.
- Develop and defend audit positions by clearly articulating technical tax rationale and supporting documentation.
- Extend and optimize existing OneSource tax engine configuration to support accurate use tax calculation and compliance workflows.
- Partner cross-functionally with Accounting, AP, and Procurement, serving as an internal resource for indirect tax questions across business processes.
What We Value
- Experience supporting SaaS business models.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to work independently.
- Experience managing audits and communicating effectively with taxing authorities and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to identify process improvement opportunities and strengthen controls across systems and workflows.
- CPA preferred.
What We Require
- Strong technical foundation in US indirect tax within complex multi-state environments.
- Ability to apply sound judgement and think critically in ambiguous or evolving tax situations.
- Hands-on experience with ONESOURCE and NetSuite strongly preferred.
- Experience reviewing sales and use tax returns in detail, including evaluation of accuracy and reasonableness of position taken.
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and the ability to identify issues beyond transactional accuracy.
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, accounting and time management skills with the ability to drive project to completion independently.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in indirect tax.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Salary
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