Senior Accountant – Tax

About Landing

Landing is a nationwide hospitality platform where fully furnished apartments meet hotel quality and consistency. Guests book from thousands of apartments in hundreds of US cities, for a night or a year, all backed by 24/7 local support. Every one of those stays comes with lodging and sales tax, and the rules change from state to state and city to city. That's where you come in.

About the Role

As our Senior Accountant – Tax, you'll run Landing's day-to-day US lodging, occupancy and sales tax compliance. You'll prepare and file local lodging tax returns, keep new jurisdictions moving through registration with our tax provider (Avalara), review guest exemption certificates, answer tax notices, and make sure every property is collecting the right tax.

This is a hands-on role with documented processes and internal tools already in place. You'll work in English every day with teams across the US, from our office in Polanco. In your first months you'll also work alongside an outside tax consultant who is reviewing our processes, so you'll help shape how the function runs going forward.

Why You'll Love It

- You own a real compliance cycle from data pull to filed return
- You work with US lodging and sales tax rules across many states every day, experience few accountants in Mexico City have
- You start with written procedures and purpose-built tools, not a blank page
- You get to improve how we handle tax compliance, and there's room to grow with us

What You'll Own

- Manual lodging tax filings: Prepare and file monthly and quarterly returns for local jurisdictions that require unit-level reporting (currently in FL, TX, OH, MO, SC, CA and MA). Pull receipts by property, prepare import files, file and pay in each jurisdiction's portal, and document every filing, including $0 returns.
- New jurisdiction registrations: Review new properties as they're signed, send the monthly batch of new jurisdictions to Avalara, track each registration through to a filing calendar, and follow up on anything Avalara needs from us. Identify new filing obligations from short-term rental permits and register new units with the local authorities we file with directly.
- Exemption certificates: Review guest and organization exemption certificates against each jurisdiction's rules, set up the matching exemption rules in AvaTax, and apply long-stay exemption thresholds correctly. Prepare vendor resale certificates for our purchasing team.
- Notices and audits: Respond to letters, assessments and audit requests from tax authorities across 30+ states. Pull the billing and property data, prepare the response and see it through to resolution.
- Tax data checks: Run monthly checks that every property is set up correctly in AvaTax and that transactions are reaching it. Raise issues with our Engineering team and confirm the fixes.
- Reconciliations and close: Review Avalara's monthly tax liability before it's paid, reconcile sales tax accounts, resolve discrepancies, and support month-end and year-end close.
- Tax questions: Answer day-to-day tax questions from our Billing, Sales, Member Support and other US teams.
- Better processes: Keep our procedures current and spot what slows compliance down and fix it, including through automation and AI tools.

What You Bring

- Fluent English. You'll work with US teams, US tax authorities and US tax rules every day. Your resume and application must be in English, and we can't consider ones submitted in other languages
- An Accounting or Finance degree
- At least three years of tax compliance experience, ideally in US sales, use or lodging tax
- Experience preparing and filing returns and working tax notices
- Hands-on knowledge of sales tax exemptions
- Experience with Avalara (AvaTax or Avalara Returns) is preferred. Experience with other tax engines, such as Vertex, is a plus
- Strong spreadsheet skills. Experience with BI or reporting tools such as Sigma or Looker is a plus
- Strong organization. You track deadlines across many jurisdictions and never miss a filing date
- The ability to read complex tax rules, explain them simply, and keep up when they change
- Independence. You work through problems on your own and know when to raise a flag
- Comfort using AI tools every day to speed up research, data work and reconciliations, plus the judgment to double-check what they tell you

Where and When

- Full-time in our Polanco office in Mexico City (Torre Esmeralda 3). This role is not remote or hybrid

Compensation and Benefits

- Salary:  Competitive salary based on experience
- Grocery vouchers: $1,500 MXN per month
- Vacation: 12 days per year (available after 90 days)
- Paid time off: 40 hours per year
- Health insurance: Major medical (MetLife), minor medical (AXA), dental and vision
- Christmas bonus: 30 days
- Parking: Onsite parking
- Travel perk: $750 USD every year in Landing Stays
- Growth: Room to grow with us