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Senior Tax Analyst

Internal Revenue Service

Anchorage, AKFull-time$126–197K/yrPosted 1 day ago

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Compensation
$126–197K/yr
Location
Anchorage, AK
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Tax Analyst works on agency-wide assignments with significant impact on operating-unit issues. The role conducts business reviews and independent analyses, studies complex operational problems, and coordinates functions and teams. It also evaluates program delivery, goals, plans, compliance, and resource use, consolidating data to assess effectiveness and alignment with strategic agency initiatives.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Tax Issue Analysis, requiredProcedure Development, requiredTraining Product Development, requiredTax Law Writing, requiredAnalytical Methods, requiredProgram Analysis, requiredProcess Analysis, requiredOral Communication, requiredWritten Communication, requiredTechnical Guidance, requiredDecision Package Preparation, requiredFederal Budgeting, requiredBudget Formulation, requiredBudget Execution, required

Qualifications

One Year Specialized Experience, requiredOne Year at GS-13, required90 Days Federal Civilian Service, required52 Weeks at Lower Grade, required

Full job description

Summary

WHAT IS TAXPAYER SERVICES? A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions Position(s) are to be filled in following area(s): TS - CARE-Customer Assistance, Relationship and Education SPEC-Stakeholder Partnerships, Education and Communication (SPEC), Products, Systems and Analysis (PS&A) REVIEW THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW FOR FURTHER DETAILS

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position. 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. STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD): PD95089 Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions. Requirements

Probationary Period - A person who is required to go through a probationary period and then is transferred, promoted, demoted, or reassigned before he or she completes such period is required to complete the remainder of the probationary period in the new position. Government Credit Card - Obtain and use a Government-issued charge card for business-related travel. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS SHOWN IN QUALIFICATIONS SECTION Qualifications

Federal experience is not required. Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or through Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/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. QUALIIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-14: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience includes: Experience with IRS functions, programs, policies, regulations, procedures, and operations to recognize significant tax issues and changes and develop new or revised procedures or training products and write tax law content f assigned programs. Experience applying a wide range of analytical and evaluative methods to develop new approaches for existing programs such as training product development and updates, and taxpayer education and communication functions. Experience applying principles of management planning, program and process analysis to develop, design, and implement new or revised policies, procedures and training products and publications. Experience communicating orally to present findings and proposals to individuals and groups, including external stakeholders and vendors,senior-level managers and field employees. Experience communicating in writing to prepare and update omprehensive training products and reports, disseminate policy information, and document findings and conclusions. Experience providing guidance, and serving as a technical program, policy and tax law expert to prepare decision packages, studies, training products and major recommendations. Experience with federal budget process, including evaluating fiscal management and budgetary functions and planning and carrying out all phases of budget formulation and execution processes. AND You must also meet the following requirement(s): TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT (TACA): 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" TIME IN GRADE (TIG): For positions above the GS-05, applicants must meet applicable time-in-­grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the grade you are applying for. For positions at the GS-05, you cannot advance to the GS-05 if you have held a GS-02 in the past 52 weeks. There is no TIG restriction for GS-02, 03 or 04 positions. For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

Education

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. We recommend choosing an evaluator from a member organization of one of the following national associations of credential evaluation services: National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE). How You Will Be Evaluated

Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), your responses on the application questionnaire, and your responses to all assessments required for this position. Applicants who disqualify themselves will not be evaluated further. You will be assessed on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Business Results – Efficiency Business Results – Quality Customer Satisfaction – Application Customer Satisfaction – Knowledge Employee Satisfaction - Employee Contribution Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or application questionnaire may result in your removal from consideration. Cheating on an assessment may also result in your removal from consideration. Rating: Your application will be evaluated in accordance with the Service's Merit Promotion Plan. A quality group rating will be used to rank and select eligible candidates. If qualified, you will be assigned to one of three quality level groups, Superior/Best Qualified, Highly Qualified and Qualified. Referral: Eligible applicants rated in the highest quality group, may be referred to a selecting official for consideration. Candidates, if required to participate in a selection interview (telephonic and/or in person at the discretion of the Selecting Official in accordance with hiring practices), will be interviewed in quality group order. We will not reimburse costs related to the interview such as travel to and from the interview site. Performance Appraisal and Awards - Will not be used in determining your overall rating. Any performance appraisal/evaluation and award documentation you provide will be forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documentation and give it due weight consideration during the overall selection process. IRS employees may obtain their most recent awards listing at https://persinfo.web.irs.gov/. If you are a displaced or surplus Federal employee (eligible for the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), you must receive a score of Highly Qualified or better to be rated as "well qualified" to receive special selection priority. Benefits

As a current employee, you know the great benefits we offer. Should you have any questions about benefits, please contact the Employee Resource Center (ERC) at 1-866-743-5748 option #1 for ERC. Other Information

Consider each location carefully when applying. If you are selected for a location, that location will become your official post of duty. In the event that a building is closed due to rent management, new hires may be placed in a local commuting location. Additional jobs may be filled from this announcement or any other source to fill these vacancies. Alternative work schedule, staggered work hours may be available. Salary: General Schedule (GS) Locality Pay tables may be found under Salaries & Wages. Cost-of-Living Allowances (COLA): Puerto Rico includes COLA. See COLA Rates 2026.

How this job compares

Set against the 564 open Tax Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$126–197K/yr
  • US median$79–132K/yr467 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $161K, is 56% above the US median midpoint ($103K) — in the top quarter of Tax Analyst salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 564 open Tax Analyst jobs across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Tax Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 460 postings).
Education
348 of the 564 open Tax Analyst jobs (62%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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