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This role works collaboratively with Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Legal, external advisors, insurance brokers, and operational leaders to support compliance requirements, risk mitigation efforts, financial analyses, and strategic initiatives. The Tax, Risk & Special Projects Analyst helps ensure regulatory compliance, maintains required documentation, supports organizational risk activities, and contributes to process improvements and cross-functional projects.\nUL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement\nAt UL Research Institutes (ULRI) and UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE), we expand the boundaries of safety science to create a more secure and sustainable world. For more than a century, we have studied the unintended consequences of innovation, designed solutions to mitigate risk, created new safety standards and shared our findings with academia, scientists, manufacturers, and policymakers across industries. We identify critical safety and sustainability issues, asking the tough questions because we believe a safer world begins with knowledge.\nWhat you’ll learn and achieve:\nAs the Tax, Risk & Special Projects Analyst, you will play a key role in the rapid growth of ULas you:\nAssist with federal, state, and local tax compliance and filings, including Forms 990, 990-T, 4720, and other required tax and regulatory filings. Maintain tax compliance calendars, workpapers, supporting documentation, and records.\nConduct tax research and support compliance activities related to tax-exempt organizations, grants, sponsorships, new revenue streams, unrelated business income, nexus, public support requirements, and other tax-related matters.\nAssist with responses to IRS and state tax authority inquiries, notices, examinations, and information requests. Support tax accounting, financial statement disclosures, audit requirements, and related reporting activities.\nSupport insurance and risk management activities, including policy renewals, exposure data collection, insurance applications, claims administration, certificates of insurance, and coordination with brokers, advisors, and internal stakeholders.\nAssist with identifying, documenting, monitoring, and mitigating organizational risks. Maintain risk-related documentation, policies, procedures, and internal controls.\nPrepare analyses, reports, presentations, and decision-support materials related to tax, compliance, insurance, risk management, treasury, governance, and special projects.\nCollaborate with Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Legal, external advisors, insurance brokers, and operational leaders on recurring responsibilities and cross-functional initiatives.\nSupport special projects by gathering and analyzing information, tracking milestones, documenting decisions, coordinating stakeholder activities, and assisting with implementation efforts.\nPerform financial, operational, and regulatory analyses to support business decisions, organizational changes, and nonrecurring transactions.\nMonitor legislative, regulatory, and industry developments. Identify opportunities for process improvements, enhanced controls, operational efficiencies, and risk reduction.\nSupport selected treasury activities, including cash management, banking administration, debt compliance, investment reporting, and financial capacity documentation.\nContribute to other finance and organization-wide initiatives as required.\nWhat you’ll experience working at UL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement: We have pursued our mission of working for a safer, more secure, and sustainable world for nearly 130 years, embedding conscientious stewardship into everything we do.\nPeople: Our people make us special. You’ll work with a diverse team of experts respected for their independence and transparency and build a network, because our approach is collaborative. We collaborate across disciplines, organizations, and geographies to build the global scientific response that today’s global challenges require.\nInteresting work: Every day is different for us here. We see what’s on the horizon and use our expertise to build the foundations of a safer future. You’ll have the opportunity to push the boundaries of human understanding as part of a team working to advance the public good.\nGrow and achieve: We learn, work, and grow together through targeted development, reward, and recognition programs.\nValues. Four core values guide our work: collaboration, respect, integrity, and beneficence. By living our values, we inspire the trust essential to fulfilling our mission and foster the partnerships that enable us to pursue a beneficent future in which we all can thrive.\nTotal Rewards: All employees at UL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagementare eligible for bonus compensation based on the level of the position. We offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans and a generous 401k matching structure of up to 5% of eligible pay. Moreover, we invest an additional 4% into your retirement saving fund after your first year of continuous employment. Depending on your role, you may be able to discuss flexible working arrangements with your manager. We also provide employees with paid time off, including vacation, holiday, sick, and volunteer days.\nWhat makes you a great fit:\nWhile no one candidate will embody every quality, the successful candidate will bring many of the following professional competencies and personal attributes:\nKnowledge of tax compliance, tax reporting requirements, and tax-exempt organization regulations.\nUnderstanding of risk management, insurance administration, compliance practices, and internal controls.\nStrong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills.\nHigh attention to detail and accuracy in preparing analyses, filings, reports, and supporting documentation.\nAbility to interpret regulatory, financial, tax, and risk-related information and develop practical recommendations.\nEffective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences.\nStrong organizational and project coordination skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.\nProficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and other business software applications.\nAbility to work collaboratively across departments and build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.\nAbility to maintain confidentiality and exercise professional judgment when handling sensitive information.\nProfessional education and experience requirements for the role include:\nBachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Risk Management, Business Administration, or a related field.\nMinimum of 4 years of relevant experience in tax compliance, tax-exempt organization compliance, risk management, insurance administration, accounting, finance, or a related function.\nExperience with nonprofit or tax-exempt organizations preferred.\nExperience supporting tax research, audits, tax authority inquiries, insurance programs, or risk management activities preferred.\nExperience supporting cross-functional projects, process improvements, system implementations, or treasury-related activities preferred.\nCPA or other relevant accounting, tax, or risk management certification preferred.\nWorkday experience preferred.\nAbout UL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement\nUL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement are nonprofit organizations dedicated to advancing safety science research through the discovery and application of scientific knowledge. 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