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Tax Specialist

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Salt Lake City, UT, US
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Nov 28, 2021

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Category
Accounting, Audit & Legal
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English

Job Details

Tax Specialist
  • Competitive salary and benefits
  • Exposure to complex tax issues and controversy resolution
  • Work in a global company with broad opportunities - Salt Lake City

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

About the job

We are looking for a Tax Specialist to join the Rio Tinto US Tax Compliance team and assist with state and federal tax compliance issues.

This role is a great opportunity to be immersed in a global corporate income tax environment with a wide variety of challenging tax issues. Reporting to the Tax Manager - US Compliance, you will be:
  • Preparing corporate Income tax returns in OneSource and creating tax basis balance sheets
  • Completing various income tax accounting duties such as journal entry calculation, account reconciliation, HFM reporting, and financial audit support
  • Supporting IRS and State audit
  • Performing detailed tax research
  • Working with the Finance Team to understanding accounting positions taken and determination of appropriate tax effect accounting position
  • Ensuring compliance with Sarbanes Oxley requirements
  • Promoting, designing, and implementing process improvements that delivery time and/or cost savings

What You'll Bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:
  • A Master's Degree in Taxation
  • A Certified Public Accountant designation (CPA) or be a candidate for the designation
  • Prior experience in public accounting with a Big-4 firm
  • Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels

It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • Experience with OneSource income tax software
  • Strong Excel skills, able to efficiently manipulate and summarize data
  • Exposure to data querying and modeling

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
  • A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
  • A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
  • Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
  • Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
  • Wellbeing benefits
  • Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
  • Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs."¯Pioneers."¯For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium the world's first to be certified "responsible" helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life."¯

Where you'll be working

Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903 and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.uscis.gov/ for more information.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

Company

We are curious and creative, ingenious and hard-working. We are pioneers – exploring the boundaries of everything we do. The materials we produce are essential to human progress, and we see that progress driven by our people. Working at Rio Tinto means touching people’s lives: from exploring new materials to finding ways to tackle climate change. 

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. And we want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. 

Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

Company info
Website
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Rio Tinto
Telephone
+44 20 7781 2000
Location
6 St James's Square
London
London
SW1Y 4AD
Australia

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