Tax Senior Associate
Robert Half · Chicago, IL · 2 mo ago
On-siteAccountingFull-time
Hybrid role
Pay
$90,000–$110,000 plus bonus
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k) plan
Responsibilities
- Serve as the engagement lead on specific client accounts
- Take responsibility for pre-engagement planning, execution, and final deliverables
- Write memos and tax alerts
- Assist with internal and external presentations
- Develop detailed engagement work plans
- Illustrate budgets and schedules
- Actively participate in proposals
- Research complex federal income tax law
- Learn about and provide insight on new and complex tax provisions across all federal income taxes
- Create tax models and checklists to be used by other members of the federal tax team
- Be a tax technical resource to firm partners and managers
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting; Master’s in Tax is a plus
- Must have experience preparing and reviewing the following types of tax returns: Passthrough entity tax returns including 1065 & 1120-S
- CPA, LLM, or JD is preferred
- 3+ years of tax experience
- Strong tax research skills
- Excellent communication and presentation (verbal and written) skills, as well as exceptional client service skills
- Proven competence with MS Office and tax compliance and research software, including ProSystem, BNA portfolio and projection, CCH Axcess, and RIA