Senior Tax Accountant

Experience: Mid Level
Salary: $90,000 - $115,000 per year

Job Details
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Responsibilities

• Tax return preparation and tax planning analysis and projections.
• Responsible for overall management of client accounts, including handling routine client questions, and work with clients to obtain necessary information for financial and tax return completion.
• Communicate improvement and business growth opportunity ideas regarding clients to management.
• Researching IRS and various state notices on an independent basis, and represent before the IRS and CT Department of Revenue.
• Preparing accurate tax work papers.
• Conduct tax research for all situations.
• Assist other staff with software & support in tax and accounting areas.
• Responsible for analysis of income statements and balance sheets and communicate findings to management, including but not limited to journal entries for monthly, quarterly, and year-end clients, bank and General Ledger reconciliations, fixed asset maintenance.
• Supervise annual closing process for clients, including assisting personnel with maintaining accurate information by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions, and resolving any discrepancies found.
• Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
• Help build organization finance and accounting infrastructure and internal controls.
• Responsible for specific client internal control audits.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, MBA preferred.
• Minimum 3-8 years of previous tax work-related experience.
• CPA earned or in progress.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office products, and QuickBooks.
• Drake software experience is a plus.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines and budgets.
• Perform complex financial analysis.

Soft Skills For Senior Staff Accountant Roll

• Integrity, Intellectual Strength and Agility
• Passionate learner and welcomes opportunities to be stretched.
• Bring an Entrepreneurial point of view to the Senior Tax Accountant role.
• An energized professional - seeking greater responsibilities and more autonomy with clients.
• Passion and curiosity to look through the financials into the business, to identify potential opportunities for client gain. Engaging and thrive in building relationships internally and externally.

A bit about us:
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We are a local accounting firm who is looking to bring on an experienced CPA. The Senior Tax Accountant is a full-time position available at dynamic, fast growing, yet intimate local CPA firm with potential to advance and possible ownership opportunities. If a candidate is looking to play a major role in their next career move, this is it.

Why join us?
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• Eligible for Profit Sharing Bonus Plan
• Simple Retirement Plan eligible after 3 months of employment (includes 3% company match) eligible after 3 months of employment.
• Pay for networking memberships with approval.
• Pay for 40 CPE hours towards seminars/webinars with approval.
• Health insurance, dental and vision coverage eligible after 3 months of employment. Employee is responsible for 50% of health insurance cost. Employee is responsible for 100% of additional family members. 100% dental and vision plan paid by the firm.
• CTCPA society dues paid for by firm

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