Tax Senior - SALT

SingerLewak is a Top 100 accounting and consulting firm primarily operating in the western region. Serving clients since 1959, the firm has developed a reputation for excellence and expertise in the accounting and management consulting industry. Providing the services of a large firm with a blended environment of practices, services, and industry specializations, SingerLewak demonstrates renowned industry leadership year-over-year. The firm takes pride in client service, professional and personal advancement through its SL Forward program, which promotes a culture of learning and growth via targeted development and leadership programs, alongside SL Cares and a focus on technological evolution.

About the role

Senior Tax Associates in the Specialty Tax Services Group serve as members of various client service teams and must possess foundational technical knowledge in areas including, but not limited to:

• Multistate Sales and Use Taxation
• Multistate Property Taxation (Preferred)
• Multistate Income and Franchise Taxation (Preferred)

Senior Specialty Tax Associates are given a wide variety of diversified tax assignments under the supervision of different professionals and are responsible for supporting a full range of tax planning, consulting, and compliance services to clients.

Responsibilities

• Assist with engagements, including planning, executing, directing, and completing tax projects while managing to budget within a given timeline.
• Deliver a full range of State and Local Tax services, such as tax return preparation and review, tax research, preparation of technical memorandums, and drafting client correspondence. Assignments include reverse sales tax reviews, audit defense, and research of sales tax issues.
• Conduct multi-state reviews analyzing sales and use tax, property tax, income/franchise tax, and others to identify optimal filing options, exemptions, credits and incentives, and corporate structures that reduce the client's tax burden.
• Prepare more complex State and Local Tax returns, including Sales and Use Tax, Property Tax, etc., and demonstrate an understanding of increasingly complex tax concepts.
• Respond to inquiries from state and local tax authorities.

Requirements

• Broad exposure to multistate sales and use taxation, credits and incentives, and/or Research and Development tax credits (a plus).
• Experience in sales and use tax compliance (filing returns), as well as personal property tax returns.
• 3 to 4 years of proven work experience in state and local tax (Big 4 firm experience a plus, but not required).
• Bachelor’s degree, usually in accounting, or master’s degree in accounting. Law degree a plus, but not required.

Pay

$40.86 - $47.12 an hour. This is a nonexempt position; overtime is paid at time and a half of the hourly rate.