Lead / AM - Taxation

About CleanHarbors

Clean Harbors Inc. (www.cleanharbors.com) is a NYSE-listed US-based $6.0 billion company. Clean Harbors was founded in 1980 near Boston by Mr. Alan S. McKim, who today remains the company’s Chairman.

Everywhere industry meets environment, Clean Harbors is on-site, providing premier environmental, energy, and industrial services. Clean Harbors employs a dedicated workforce of 18,000 employees and has over 450 service locations across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Beyond addressing the environmental needs of its more than 300,000 customers, the Company has been on the front lines of addressing some of the largest emergency response events in North America of the past several decades including the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the anthrax attacks in New York, the 2015 avian flu outbreak that devastated the poultry industry, Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Sandy, and the oil pipeline breaks that affected the Yellowstone and Kalamazoo rivers, along with other major chemical releases into the environment.

Clean Harbors India has been strategically established as the Global Capability Center (GCC) to serve our parent company. We take pride in serving some of the most tech-savvy business stakeholders at Clean Harbors. The GCC employees form part of our globally integrated teams that provide cutting-edge IT solutions and production support across platforms. Our shared services teams work seamlessly with their global counterparts in providing critical 24x7 support in various functions including Finance, HR, Procurement, IT, and Operations. Our aggressive growth plans open significant career advancement opportunities for our employees.

A Process Lead or Assistant Manager is responsible for thoroughly understanding compliance and tax-related activities and executing them with high quality within the designated timelines. The individual is expected to develop deep expertise in their assigned tasks and projects. This role emphasizes the execution of critical activities, addressing team queries, and delivering training sessions as needed. Timely and accurate responses to stakeholder and customer inquiries are essential, along with maintaining consistently high levels of accuracy in all processes. As a process owner, the individual should be approachable and supportive, fostering effective collaboration between the team and management.

Responsible for managing the company’s end to end Sales and Use Tax compliance across all jurisdictions.

Calculate, file and remit sales and use tax returns in a timely manner.

Respond to notices, audits, and other enquiries from the tax authorities.

Demonstrate strong knowledge of US (SUT) Tax business domains of Indirect Tax laws, regulations, and best practices.

Focus on ensuring the company’s SUT compliance, provide subject matter expertise, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and continuously improve the sales and use tax processes.

Have good knowledge of Tax Exemptions documents.

Stay up-to date with the changing tax laws and regulations.

Have excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Have good understanding about the property tax process.

Manages & meet deadlines on assigned projects, operational and adhoc activities and serves as a backup.

Provide training and guidelines to team members and internal stakeholders on taxation based on the requirements.

Possess strong communication and interpersonal skills.

7-9 years of relevant experience in US taxation, Sales and Use (SUT), preferred from Indirect Tax

At least 3 years of experience in team management.

MBA in Finance/Taxation (or) M. Com with Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com).

Advanced knowledge in MS-Office (Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word).

Must have strong working knowledge on OneSource/Vertex.

Good to have SalesForce user knowledge, but not mandatory.