Senior Tax Accountant

Senior Tax Accountant

Location – Sterling, VA (Hybrid)

Summary

The Senior Tax Accountant is a newly available opportunity within a publicly traded and industry leading organization. This is an opportunity to join a highly professional and experienced corporate accounting team known for providing high service value through fostering a strong collaboration environment. The Senior Tax Accountant position will offer a competitive total compensation package in the $140,000 to $145,000 range based on experience as well as an exceptional suite of benefits including 401K, full medical, onsite gym, and generous paid time off promoting excellent work/life balance. Ideal candidates should have three or more years of related tax accounting experience whether in public accounting or internal corporate with a CPA (or CPA in progress) and experience with corporate or partnership income tax matters.

Job Description

• Maintains compliance with all federal, state, and local corporate tax requirements and mitigation of tax risk for the company and its affiliates.
• Performs tax research, identifies critical tax risks, monitors, evaluates and communicates the impact of enacted changes in federal, state and local tax regulations.
• Responsible for preparing tax provisions, general ledger entries, reconciliations, unclaimed property and escheatment process, and required financial reporting disclosures for the company’s financial statements.
• Respond to tax-related inquiries and correspondence from federal, state and local tax authorities, external auditors and internal accounting, legal and HR inquiries and assist in resolution of issues.
• Proactively identifies and implements tax-related process improvements to ensure the accuracy and adequate documentation of all tax calculations, reports and filings and ensures compliance with tax-related SOX controls.
• Responsible for other tax related matters like 1099s, Business, Professional and Occupational License tax, property tax, etc.
• Completes all tax related account reconciliations and journal entries on a monthly basis
• Assists with informational reporting for maintaining state lender’s license in various states, prepare and submit response to Census surveys.
• Assists with the preparation of tax and certain non-tax disclosures in the quarterly Form 10-Q and annual 10-K filings with the SEC.
• Assists with preparing board materials and review of investor relations/rating agency communications

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or related field, with emphasis in tax preferred.
• CPA required.
• 3 years tax experience in public accounting or private industry.
• Experience with Excel is required.
• Experience with federal and state corporation tax returns is required.
• Experience with income tax accounting preparation, provisioning experience highly preferred.
• Ability to work on a hybrid basis - 3 days in per week, on occasion 4 days in.