Senior Tax Analyst

Internal Revenue Service | Fairview Heights, IL

Posted Date 1/15/2025
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WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OTHER IRS CAREERS? Visit us on the web at www.jobs.irs.govWHAT IS THE LARGE BUSINESS & INTERNATIONAL (LBI)DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:
  • ADCCI-Data Solutions - Product Management - Compliance Data Solutions

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.
  • Performs assignments that are agency-wide in scope and have significant impact on issues facing the operating unit. Conducts Business Reviews of field and headquarters offices, serves on task forces or study groups, and performs independent analyses of area or nationwide program operations.
  • Comprehensively plans, analyzes, determines cost/benefit relationships, and coordinates a variety of functions, operations, teams, or interfacing administrative systems.
  • Independently studies complex problems facing operating unit functions or those of particular concern within specialized areas of the organization. This may require coordinating input from activities outside the division and identifying new methods of performing work.
  • Participates with cross-functional representatives on nationwide. Conducts studies and analyses to support operational reviews, measure achievement of goals, execution of plans, compliance with directives, and utilization of resources.
  • Analyzes assigned program area(s) to discern trends in program delivery. Consolidates report data to measure effectiveness in meeting baselines or the degree to which program plans and achievements support strategic agency initiatives.

Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-14: To be minimally qualified for this position you must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience in applying professional accounting principles, theory, and practices; Researching, interpreting and analyzing tax implications of corporate financial transactions; Experience using analytical and evaluative techniques, to gather, identify, evaluate, and develop work methods to resolve multifaceted interrelated issues and combined Federal tax effects; Experience dealing tactfully and persuasively with taxpayers and stakeholders, to explain complex interpretation of tax laws, regulations and resolve issues. Experience as a technical expert with large, complex business returns pertaining to the application of tax principles, policies, legal decisions, and guidance with large, complex business returns in international tax areas (for example: international business provisions of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, Complex Corporate Foreign Tax Credit Planning, Foreign Earnings & Profits, Expense Allocation and Apportionment, Sourcing of Income, Subpart F, Global intangible low taxed income, Foreign derived intangible income, Base Erosion Alternative Minimum Tax (BEAT), Effectively Connected Income, Outbound transfers of Intangible Property, Transfer Pricing, complex foreign reorganizations and restructuring transactions, controlled foreign corporations, foreign currency, disregarded entities and check-the-box elections, Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement (APMA), including Treaties, Advance Pricing Agreement (APA), and Competent Authority procedures) and experience evaluating and explaining complex international tax concepts to others both verbally and in writing.

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MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: You must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the GS-05 grade level, you must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position you are applying to. Advancement to positions up to GS-05 is permitted if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade held within the preceding 52 weeks.

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TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens".

For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

A copy of your transcripts or equivalent documentation is required for positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience. An official transcript will be required if you are selected. If the position has specific education requirements and you currently hold, or have previously held, a position in the same job series with the IRS, there is no need to submit a transcript or equivalent at this time. Applicants are encouraged, but are not required, to submit an SF-50 documenting experience in a specific series.

A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.
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