Certified Public Accountant (5+ years): Denver or Salt Lake City

About the role

Holland & Hart is seeking a Certified Public Accountant to join the firm in its Denver or Salt Lake City office. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Responsibilities

• Works and consults with attorneys, CPAs, clients, and their advisors on a wide variety of gift, estate, GST, trust, and individual tax matters, including planning, estate administration, and compliance
• Captures and coordinates a wide range of projects, ensuring that tasks are completed timely and without direct supervision; this position requires prompt follow-through, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize projects
• Works as a key member of a team-oriented group of paralegals, CPAs, associates, and partners
• Works closely and directly with clients' outside CPAs, family offices, and other advisors
• Researches and analyzes gift, estate, GST, and income tax issues
• Prepares balance sheets and cash flow and financial projections to illustrate proposed estate or wealth transfer planning transactions for clients
• Prepares and/or reviews gift, estate, and fiduciary income tax returns and fiduciary accountings
• Maintains or exceeds billable hours requirements
• Stays up to date on all tax laws and implications

Requirements

• Certified Public Accountant licensure
• Willingness to learn and/or foundational knowledge of individual income tax, fiduciary income tax, gift tax, estate tax, and generation-skipping transfer tax
• Willingness to learn and/or foundational knowledge of fiduciary accounting, partnership tax, and S corporation tax
• Experience with tax research and writing and the creation of balance sheets, cash flow projections, and estate tax projections
• Ability to develop creative solutions to complex tax issues
• Ability to stay current on tax concepts and changes
• Ability to multi-task and work effectively under pressure
• Ability to stay organized and focused on projects with great attention to detail
• Works well within deadlines
• Good interpersonal skills and team-oriented mindset
• Advanced Excel skills
• Knowledge of Word and Adobe Acrobat

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of tax experience in a professional services capacity, or a Master of Taxation and interest in growing and developing a long-term career in this area at Holland & Hart

Skills

• Not specified

Benefits

• Compensation is merit-based
• Discretionary bonus may be available based upon performance
• Billable hours requirement of 1800 hours
• Administrative matter contribution of 200 hours
• Contributions to the life of the firm is vital to the collective success of the firm, and we encourage our business professionals to engage in ways each person finds meaningful through various committees and firm activities
• Benefits summary includes:
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• AD&D
• EAP
• STD
• LTD
• Enhanced parental leave for both primary and non-primary caregivers
• Automatic Off Ramp/On Ramp program before and after parental leave
• Inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits
• Voluntary income protection benefits such as supplemental life, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurances
• 401(k)-retirement plan with a company match
• Voluntary self-identification opportunity for EEO-1 and surveys

Pay

$140,000 – $225,000 per year

Schedule

Not specified