Indirect Tax Consultant

Uniti is a premier insurgent fiber provider dedicated to enabling mission-critical connectivity across the United States.

With a steadfast commitment to customer service, operational excellence, and superior network capabilities, Uniti builds, operates and delivers critical fiber-based communications services to connect and empower people and businesses.

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About the Role

The Indirect Tax Consultant will support the company's indirect tax function across audit, compliance, and operational tax activities. This role will assist with managing tax audits across multiple jurisdictions, but will also play a key role in recurring transaction tax functions such as return preparation, account reconciliations, notice resolution, exemption certificate support, and maintaining tax data.

This position is ideal for a tax professional with a solid foundation in indirect tax who is looking to expand their experience across both audit and compliance functions. The role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

What You'll Do

• Assist with indirect tax audits by gathering documentation, preparing audit support files, responding to information requests, and helping coordinate audit activity across jurisdictions.
• Support communications with auditors and external advisors by organizing schedules, compiling data, and maintaining documentation needed for audit reviews and issue resolution.
• Prepare and review sales, use, and telecommunications tax returns, including related workpapers and supporting schedules.
• Perform indirect tax account reconciliations, prepare journal entries, and support close-related tax reporting activities.
• Research transaction tax issues, including taxability, sourcing, and exemption matters, and document conclusions.
• Review and respond to tax notices and assist with resolving assessments and other state and local tax correspondence.
• Maintain exemption certificate records and other indirect tax documentation to support compliance and audit readiness.
• Coordinate with internal teams, including Finance, Billing, IT, Procurement, and Operations, to gather data and resolve tax-related questions.
• Monitor audit milestones, filing deadlines, and other compliance requirements to help ensure timely completion of tax obligations.
• Keep current on indirect tax developments and help evaluate their impact on compliance processes.

Do You Have?

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax, or related field.
• CPA Preferred
• 3-7+ years of professional experience in tax, accounting, or related discipline.
• Proficiency with Excel (pivot tables, lookups, conditional logic) and comfort working with large datasets.
• Experience preparing journal entries and performing account reconciliations in a general ledger environment.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to meet tight deadlines across multiple jurisdictions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills; comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Even Better

• Telecommunications tax experience (e.g., state/local telecom taxes, 911 fees, USF contributions/surcharges, utility/telecom-specific fees).
• Experience with a tax engine or compliance software (e.g., Avalara, Vertex, Sovos) and filing portals (e.g., Streamlined Sales Tax, state e-file).
• Prior experience leading audits to closure, drafting position memos, and negotiating assessments.
• Working knowledge of multi-state rules on sourcing, taxability, exemptions, and telecom-specific fees/surcharges.
• Hands-on experience responding to tax notices and participating in state/local tax audits, including sampling and controversy processes.

Physical Tasks- Standing Occasionally: 0-33% | Walking Occasionally: 0-33% |Sitting and Stationary: Continuously: 67-100% | Bending: Occasionally: 0-33% | Crouching: Occasionally: 0-33% | Carrying: Occasionally: 0-33% | Reaching: Occasionally: 0-33% |Lifting -Lowering >1-15 lbs: Occasionally: 0-33% | Repetitive Hand Action: Medium Dexterity: Continuously: 67-100% | Fine Manipulating: Frequently: 34-66%

Audio Visual Needs - Hearing: Continuously: 67-100%| Near Vision: Continuously: 67-100% | Far Vision: Occasionally: 0-33% | Peripheral Vision: Occasionally: 0-33%

Equipment Used in Job Performance: Computer, Printer, Fax, Telephone, Basic Office Supplies, Copier

The starting compensation range for this job is $76,100 to $99,900.

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Our Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance Plans
• 401K Plan
• Health & Flexible Savings Account
• Life and AD&D, Spousal Life, Child Life Insurance Plans
• Educational Assistance Plan

Uniti is an equal opportunity employer. At Uniti, we celebrate the authenticity and uniqueness of our people and their ideas.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, protected veteran status, current military status, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, creed, citizenship status, or any other status protected by law, and to give full consideration to qualified disabled individuals and protected veterans.

Actual base pay for this job will depend on the candidates primary work location and other factors, such as relevant skills and experience.

Notice to Non-U.S. Citizens:Uniti, as a holder of licenses granted by the Federal Communications Commission, is required to notify and to obtain approval from federal regulatory agencies prior to granting certain system/network access to any non-U.S. citizen personnel. Offers of employment extended to non-U.S. citizens are contingent upon receiving the requisite approval from agencies overseeing compliance.

Non-U.S. citizens are required to provide Uniti with the personal identifying information required to obtain the necessary approval prior to accessing certain systems and/or Uniti's network. If you are not a U.S. citizen, please notify your recruiter or email CORP.HRlegal@uniti.com as soon as possible for information on Uniti's foreign personnel disclosure and approval requirements.

Notice to Applicants: Depending on the position and its job functions, offers of employment may be contingent upon successful completion of certain pre-employment screenings, including but not limited to drug-screen, motor vehicle records check, or other pre-employment screening.

All such screenings will be conducted by an external third-party with the Candidate's written consent and in accordance with federal and state law. Refusal to authorize or submit to a required pre-employment screening may disqualify the candidate from employment. Any misrepresentation during the application or interview process may result in denial of employment, withdrawal of offer, or termination.

Skills

Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D), Accounting, Analysis Skills, Audiovisual, Auditing, Billing, Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Communication Skills, Consulting, Copying Machines, Cross-Functional, Customer Service Operations, Data Collection, Data Sets, Dental Insurance, Detail Oriented, Documentation, External Audit, FCC (Federal Communications Commission), Fax Machines, Federal Government, Federal Laws and Regulations, File Audits, Finance, General Ledger Accounting, IT Procurement, Journal Entries, Leadership, Life Insurance, Local Tax, Maintain Compliance, Negotiation Skills, Pivot Tables, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Printers, Problem Solving Skills, Reconciliation, Record Keeping, Regulatory Compliance, Sales, Sales Tax, State Tax, Support Documentation, Tax Accounting, Tax Regulations, Tax Reporting, Tax Returns, Team Player, Telecommunications, Time Management, United States Citizen, Use Tax, Vision Plan, Writing Skills

About the Company

Windstream Communications, LLC

Windstream is not just a Fortune 500 company. We’re also the provider of choice for four out of five Fortune 500

companies for data, voice, network and cloud solutions.For more information about Windstream and our culture,

visit www.windstreamtalent.com.

A Trusted Advisor Single Point of Contact

Windstream delivers enterprise-class data, voice, network and cloud solutions with superior performance,

enhanced security and exceptional reliability to businesses nationwide through a single point of contact.

Whether your enterprise is small or large, with one location or many, Windstream is the communications and

technology service provider you need with technical expertise and advanced network capabilities.

Smart, Customized Communications Solutions

Windstream provides customized data, voice, network and cloud services, including disaster recovery, managed

services, networking, VoIP and more—with more than 115,000 fiber route miles across North America. Our

industry-leading, certified experts can assess your environment and design a business optimizing solution that’s

right for you today and can grow with you tomorrow.

Reliable, Secure Personalized Service

As a $6 billion company with a nationwide presence, Windstream provides customers with dependable data, voice,

network and cloud services and the peace of mind that comes from having your communications needs met by a

financially solid provider. Customers further benefit from a level of personalized service that’s unrivaled in the

industry.

Company Size

10,000 employees or more

Industry

Internet Services

Founded

2006

Website

https://www.windstream.com/