**Part-Time Accounting Associate**
Part-Time _(20-30 hours per week)_
3-Month Temporary Role
MX Hybrid
**Innovate with Benchmark Gensuite as a Part-Time Accounting Associate**
Everyone wants to make the world a better place. We work to make it happen. By joining Benchmark Gensuite and exploring careers in the EHS, Sustainability, and ESG Disclosure Reporting space, you'll be helping customers throughout the business community empower informed decision making, improve employee safety, and lessen their environmental footprint while creating a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. Join us and help make the corporate world better for the planet and better for its employees.
Benchmark Gensuite jobs play a crucial role in helping develop our unified EHS, Sustainability, and ESG digital transformation software solutions that enable cross-functional performance excellence, enhance businesses' sustainability efforts, and help them achieve their ESG goals. With our incredible global team, the collaborative spirit of our subscribers and partners, and the continuous innovation in exciting new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and IoT, a career at Benchmark Gensuite mean you will continuously use and evolve your skills to develop fresh ideas and initiatives.
**About Benchmark Gensuite**
Benchmark Gensuite® enables companies to implement robust, cross-functional digital systems for EHS, Sustainability, and ESG Reporting through a unified digital platform—locally, globally and across diverse operating profiles.
With intuitive, best-practice-based process functionality, flexible configurations, and powerful extensions, the Benchmark Gensuite® platform has helped companies worldwide manage their EHS, Sustainability; Quality; Operational Risk and Compliance; Product Stewardship, and Supply Chain Risks for over two decades; and now organically integrated with cutting-edge ESG disclosure reporting and management solutions. Join over 3 million users that trust Benchmark Gensuite® with their software system needs and benefit from rapid deployment and adoption, immediate return on investment (ROI), service excellence, and collaborative innovation.
**Responsibilities**:
- US Sales Tax:_
- Provide daily summaries/reports detailing completed tasks and communications.
- Conduct end-of-week reviews to assess completion status and discuss priorities for the following week.
- Calculate actual sales & use tax amounts utilizing internal processes.
- Compile calculated taxes into an organized Excel spreadsheet for tracking purposes.
- Support Sales Tax Reconciliation by State.
- Support Sales Tax filing by State.
- US Payroll Reporting Tax:_
- Validate correct business names and addresses are on file by following up with various US tax entities.
- Coordinate opening of new payroll tax accounts as needed (State Income, State Unemployment, Municipal, School, etc.).
- Document Organization:_
- Assist in uploading and categorizing vendor/partner agreements and contracts within our system.
**Requirements**:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field preferred.
- Proven experience in sales tax calculation or similar role is highly desirable.
- Proficiency in using Avalara or similar sales tax software is a plus.
- Experience in using NetSuite software is a plus.
- Strong competency with Microsoft Excel and data management tools.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Ability to work independently with mínimal supervision as well as part of a team.
- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.