Senior Tax Accountant

New Relic

Senior Tax Accountant joining finance team at New Relic to optimize tax functions. Leading project management of tax compliance and process automation for growing SaaS company.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • California, Oregon • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $1 - $2 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Flux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Co-Build the Function: Partner with finance leadership to establish, automate, and scale our internal tax processes and strategies as the company expands globally.
Project Management: Act as the primary project manager for external tax advisors, ensuring deliverables (like federal, state, and international tax returns) are accurate and on schedule.
Tax Close & Provisions: Own the quarter-end and annual tax provision process (ASC 740), prepare tax journal entries, and perform flux analyses with a keen eye for detail.
Audit & Notice Ownership: Project-manage responses to tax audits and notices, proactively gathering documentation and resolving inquiries efficiently.
Curiosity-Driven Special Projects: Lead research and execution on special projects, including R&D tax credits, international expansion, transfer pricing, and state nexus evaluation.
Process Automation: Constantly question the status quo. Identify manual bottlenecks in our current tax processes and implement modern, scalable software or workflow solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; Master’s degree in Taxation is a plus.
CPA license is required.
Minimum of 3–5 years of progressive tax experience (Public accounting/Big 4 experience highly preferred; a mix of public and fast-paced corporate experience is ideal).
A Builder’s Mindset: Comfortable with ambiguity and excited by the challenge of creating order out of chaos.
Strong Project Management Skills: Proven ability to manage external vendors, track multiple competing deadlines, and drive cross-functional projects to completion.
Solid foundational understanding of ASC 740 (Accounting for Income Taxes).
Experience in the SaaS industry or with international tax issues is a major plus.
Innate curiosity, strong analytical problem-solving skills, and the ability to translate complex tax concepts into plain English for non-finance stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

healthcare
dental
vision
parental leave and planning
mental health benefits
401(k) plan and match
flex time-off
11 paid holidays
volunteer time-off
other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees

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Hard Skills & Tools

tax processestax provision processASC 740tax journal entriesflux analysesR&D tax creditstransfer pricingstate nexus evaluationprocess automationproject management

Soft Skills

builder's mindsetcuriosityanalytical problem-solvingcommunicationattention to detailability to manage ambiguitycross-functional collaborationvendor managementdeadline trackingexecution

Certifications

CPA license