Symmetry Energy Solutions is a retail natural gas business that procures, stores, schedules, transports, and delivers natural gas to its industrial, commercial, and residential customers in the volumes, at the price, and in the delivery periods required by those customers. The primary objective of the business is to provide quality customer service in the delivery of natural gas to its end-user customers while creating value for its owners in an efficient, safe, and environmentally responsible manner. Symmetry Energy Solutions is headquartered in Houston, Texas, has approximately 250 employees, operates in over 30 states, and serves over 100,000 customers.
Symmetry’s vision is to be a trusted partner who delivers reliable and innovative energy solutions. The Company’s core values are:
- Acting with integrity. Symmetry believes in always doing the right thing for its customers, employees, and community.
- Embracing diversity. Symmetry encourages and supports an inclusive and diverse culture where its employees are valued and empowered.
- Providing quality customer service. Symmetry understands the needs of its customers and is committed to providing dependable quality service.
- Operating as One Team. Symmetry commits to operating as One Team focusing on the needs of its customers and the overall success of the Company as a whole.
- Striving for continuous improvement. Symmetry strives to be better today than it was yesterday.
Symmetry Energy Solutions, LLC is formerly known as CenterPoint Energy Services, and was acquired by Energy Capital Partners. Energy Capital Partners (ECP), founded in 2005, is a North American-focused investor across both equity and credit infrastructure assets, including natural gas power generation, renewables and storage solutions, midstream, environmental infrastructure, and opportunistic energy solutions emphasizing the transition to clean energy while avoiding the more volatile energy subsectors like exploration and production. The ECP team, comprised of 61 people with 600 years of collective industry experience, deep expertise, and extensive relationships, has consummated more than 60 transactions over the last 10 years, representing more than $45 billions of enterprise value.
Job Summary
The Senior Tax Analyst’s primary job responsibility will be to support all direct and indirect tax activity in over 350 states and local jurisdictions in accordance with their respective guidelines. With the aid of management, this role will be relied upon to research and provide tax related guidance to the business on various tax issues, as needed. This role offers an opportunity to participate in a diverse cross section of many different tax areas such as partnership income tax, utility taxes, sales and use tax, property tax, and severance withholdings tax. Daily duties will include preparing and reviewing monthly state and local tax reports/returns, related tax payments, customer refund claims for multiple states, counties, parishes, cities and local jurisdictions. In addition, assisting with all related tax audit requirements, monthly tax account reconciliations and supporting the tax exemption certificate management process.
Essential Functions
- Responsible for direct and indirect taxes in 350+ state and local jurisdictions.
- Research and provide guidance to business on various tax issues, as needed.
- Support partnership federal and (36) state returns, K1’s and quarterly estimate processes.
- Responsible for performing compliance functions (i.e. review of detailed tax data, return preparation and tax accruals). Timely tax return compliance and on-time tax remittance is critical.
- Prepare tax fillings for multiple states utilizing detailed system reports complying with all filing deadlines for (1) sales and use tax (2) severance/withholding tax (3) property tax.
- Prepare wire transfers and check requests for payment of taxes.
- Assist on a regular basis with state and local sales tax refund process.
- Coordinate and prepare various exemption certificate requests from vendors.
- Prepare business license requests/renewals and business sales tax registrations as needed.
- Assist with analysis and proper tax coding of tax transactions.
- Support the preparation of tax account reconciliation to ensure accurate financial statements.
- Ad-hoc activities as assigned.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education/Certification/Experience
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in accounting, finance or general business. Tax related professional designations are preferred.
- One to four years of full-time tax professional working experience; experience in natural gas energy preferred.
- Experience with or ability to quickly learn ERP (Microsoft Dynamics 365), CRM (SalesForce), ETRM (Endur) and sales tax decision software (OneSource) preferred.
Additional Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Personal Characteristics
- Proficiency in Microsoft software including Excel, Word and PowerPoint required.
- Detailed oriented with excellent organizational skills are critical.
- Time management skills and multi-ask capabilities required.
- Ability to research and solve problems in a fast-paced environment.
- Self-starter and possesses ability to work independently.
- Exhibit SES’s core values, competencies and develop positive interaction and collaboration with internal and external personnel.
- Ability to bring innovative ideas, recommendations to improve current processes, procedures, activities encouraged.
- Able to work in fast-paced office environment with a high-volume workload and frequent, short deadlines that may require more than a 40-hour work week to meet established deadlines including working nights or weekends, as required.
- Able to work indoors, in an office environment, regardless of whether open office, cubicle or private office.
- Able to travel occasionally, possibly overnight.
Physical Requirements
- Able to effectively communicate orally and in writing, utilizing clear and concise language.
- Able to perceive and understand verbal communication in person, as well as over communication devices such as telephone or mobile phone.
- Able to visually perceive information on a personal computer monitor or laptop screen for extended periods of time.
- Capable of operating a personal computer, whether it is a desktop or laptop, for extended periods of time to create, compose, and review documents and spreadsheets.
- Competent in operating office equipment, including but not limited to telephones, mobile phones, photocopiers, scanners, and calculators.
- Able to reach, grasp, and manipulate items necessary to perform job tasks.
- Able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time as required by job responsibilities.
- Proficient in speaking, reading, and comprehending the English language.
- Able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a minimal amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.
Working Conditions
- Able to work in a fast-paced office environment with a high-volume workload, including the possibility of working beyond standard hours and on nights/weekends to meet deadlines.
- Able to work indoors, in an office environment, regardless of whether it is an open office, cubicle or private office.
- Able to travel occasionally, possibly overnight, and to attend meetings and conferences, when required.
Symmetry Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
