Tax Strategist
H&R Block · Vienna, VA · 4 wk ago
On-siteAccounting$75k–$113k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract content.
The posting starts with "About The Role" then a paragraph describing role. Then many bullet-like sentences (not actual bullet list). We need to convert to
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The posting includes many sentences that could be considered duties/responsibilities. We need to decide sections.
We have sections: About the role (intro paragraph). Then Responsibilities (list of duties). Then Requirements (maybe required qualifications). Then Qualifications (maybe preferred?). Then Skills (maybe skills). Then Benefits (benefits). Then Pay (pay range). Then Schedule (maybe not present). The posting does not mention schedule explicitly, so we should not include Schedule section.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent.
Let's extract:
About the role paragraph: "Apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports and prepare corporate entity and partnership returns. Preparing personal and business income tax returns and statements for audits. Prepares, submits, and manages tax statements and returns for businesses and clients. Provides advice on financial and tax matters and should have an in-dept knowledge of the regulations, laws and acts that govern the process. Mentor and guide peers through knowledge transfer and skill development. Foster and enhance continuous improvement initiatives. Accurately process various forms of financial information and materials, ensuring compliance with relevant reporting requirements. Prepare tax statements, financial statements, and BAS statements at required intervals Create and return statements and documents to clients by set deadlines Preparing business income tax returns and statements for audits Manage tax administration responsibilities required of assigned accounts include tax code research, tax return preparation, and tax planning Identifying opportunities to minimize tax liability through deductions and credits. Engage regularly with clients and maintain strong relationships Stay current with knowledge of federal and state tax laws, regulatory and compliance requirements, and tax planning techniques. Regularly research financial landscape and market trends Assist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end analysis of accounts for assigned lines of business. Validate the accuracy of data from subsystems Process subsystems or subsidiary interfaces. Validate the accuracy and completeness of the interfaced data. Perform follow up and resolution of determined issues Provides guidance and assistance to Associate Tax Strategists as needed"
That's a long paragraph; we can split into list items for responsibilities.
Now Required Qualifications: list:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or the equivalent through a combination of education and related work experience
- Minimum of 2 years’ accounting experience
- Minimum of 1 year business tax/entity returns experience
- Experience with GAAP - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Mid-level Knowledge of integrated online accounting applications
- Mid-level Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Mid-level Demonstrated critical thinking skills
- Capable to handle multiple tasks and project simultaneously
- Expert Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines
- Mid-level familiarity with bookkeeping software, spreadsheets, and database management.
- Ability to adapt to new tools and automation
- Successful completion of the H&R Block Tax Knowledge Assessment, Income Tax Course or Equivalent and Tax Accountant Assessment
- Good verbal and written skills
- Client Services experience
- Ability to complete assigned projects on time with minimal supervision
- Ability to correctly interpret and apply complex instructions, policies and regulations
Preferred Qualifications:
- Mid-level Experience with PeopleSoft general ledger and query preferred
- Mid-level knowledge of tax law and statutory regulations
Skills: maybe we can extract skills from required qualifications: oral/written communication, critical thinking, etc. But we might combine into Skills section.
Benefits: from "Why work for us" paragraph: talk about purpose, culture, invest in well-being through competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, support for life both in and outside of work. Then list: Qualifying associates can enroll themselves and/or their eligible dependents in medical and prescription drug coverage; can participate in the H&R Block Retirement Savings Plan (401(k) Plan), the Employee Assistance Program, (virtual) fitness center programs, and the associate discount program; are automatically enrolled in Business Travel Accident Insurance; and receive Associate Tax Prep benefit.
Pay: Pay Range $75,400.00 - $113,000.00/Yr.
Schedule: none.
We must not include boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes "Sponsored Job" at end; we should drop that.
Also "Pay Range Information" paragraph includes some text; we need to keep substantive info: pay range and note that local minimum wage laws apply, individual pay decisions depend on factors, incentive compensation etc. We should preserve that.
Thus Pay section: include paragraph about pay range info plus the range.
Now we need to decide which sections to output.
We have:
- About the role: we could keep a short paragraph summarizing the role (maybe first sentence). But we must preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot summarize away detail. So we need to keep all the role description content. Could put it in
under About the role heading. - Responsibilities: we could list duties as
- . Might be many items; we need to extract each distinct duty from the paragraph. Could break by sentences.
Let's list duties from the role paragraph (split by sentences):
1. Apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports and prepare corporate entity and partnership returns.
2. Preparing personal and business income tax returns and statements for audits.
3. Prepares, submits, and manages tax statements and returns for businesses and clients.
4. Provides advice on financial and tax matters and should have an in-dept knowledge of the regulations, laws and acts that govern the process.
5. Mentor and guide peers through knowledge transfer and skill development.
6. Foster and enhance continuous improvement initiatives.
7. Accurately process various forms of financial information and materials, ensuring compliance with relevant reporting requirements.
8. Prepare tax statements, financial statements, and BAS statements at required intervals.
9. Create and return statements and documents to clients by set deadlines.
10. Preparing business income tax returns and statements for audits.
11. Manage tax administration responsibilities required of assigned accounts include tax code research, tax return preparation, and tax planning.
12. Identifying opportunities to minimize tax liability through deductions and credits.
13. Engage regularly with clients and maintain strong relationships.
14. Stay current with knowledge of federal and state tax laws, regulatory and compliance requirements, and tax planning techniques.
15. Regularly research financial landscape and market trends.
16. Assist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end analysis of accounts for assigned lines of business.
17. Validate the accuracy of data from subsystems.
18. Process subsystems or subsidiary interfaces.
19. Validate the accuracy and completeness of the interfaced data.
20. Perform follow up and resolution of determined issues.
21. Provides guidance and assistance to Associate Tax Strategists as needed.
Some duplicates: #2 and #10 similar; we could keep both but maybe deduplicate. The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplicated lines: we should remove duplicated lines. So we need to detect duplicates and remove them. The duplicate is "Preparing personal and business income tax returns and statements for audits." and "Preparing business income tax returns and statements for audits." Not exact duplicate but similar. Might be considered duplicated? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. Likely they mean exact duplicate lines. We'll keep both as they are slightly different (personal vs business). But we could keep both.
Now Required Qualifications list: we need to output as
- .
Preferred Qualifications: also list.
Skills: maybe we can extract skills from required qualifications: Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills; Demonstrated critical thinking skills; Ability to handle multiple tasks and project simultaneously; Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines; familiarity with bookkeeping software, spreadsheets, and database management; Ability to adapt to new tools and automation; Good verbal and written skills; Client Services experience; Ability to complete assigned projects on time with minimal supervision; Ability to correctly interpret and apply complex instructions, policies and regulations. Also Mid-level Knowledge of integrated online accounting applications; Experience with GAAP; etc. Could be considered skills.
But we already have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications sections; maybe we don't need separate Skills section if content overlaps. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications into a single "Requirements" section? But they have headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide which to include based on content.
We have both required and preferred qualifications. Could put required under "Requirements" and preferred under "Qualifications". Skills could be derived from both but maybe we can omit Skills if it's thin.
But we need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have required qualifications (specific). Preferred qualifications (specific). Skills: we could extract but might be redundant. However we could still include Skills section with list of skills (communication, critical thinking, etc.) but that would be thin? Might be okay.
But we need to avoid filler like "Mid-level" repeated. That's substantive though.
Let's decide sections:
- About the role (paragraph)
- Responsibilities (list)
- Requirements (required qualifications)
- Qualifications (preferred qualifications)
- Benefits (list)
- Pay (paragraph + range)
We'll omit Skills and Schedule.
Now we need to format.
HTML fragment: use
for section headings. Use
- for any list. Use
for prose. We must not include / or markdown. Let's craft. First, About the role: we could keep the original paragraph as is (maybe combine sentences). We'll output as
with the paragraph. But the paragraph is long; we can keep as is. Now Responsibilities:
- each duty. We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information from the role paragraph. Let's extract sentences exactly as they appear, preserving punctuation. Original role paragraph text (starting after "About The Role"): "Apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports and prepare corporate entity and partnership returns. Preparing personal and business income tax returns and statements for audits. Prepares, submits, and manages tax statements and returns for businesses and clients. Provides advice on financial and tax matters and should have an in-dept knowledge of the regulations, laws and acts that govern the process. Mentor and guide peers through knowledge transfer and skill development. Foster and enhance continuous improvement initiatives. Accurately process various forms of financial information and materials, ensuring compliance with relevant reporting requirements. Prepare tax statements, financial statements, and BAS statements at required intervals Create and return statements and documents to clients by set deadlines Preparing business income tax returns and statements for audits Manage tax administration responsibilities required of assigned accounts include tax code research, tax return preparation, and tax planning Identifying opportunities to minimize tax liability through deductions and credits. Engage regularly with clients and maintain strong relationships Stay current with knowledge of federal and state tax laws, regulatory and compliance requirements, and tax planning techniques. Regularly research financial landscape and market trendsAssist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end analysis of accounts for assigned lines of business. Validate the accuracy of data from subsystems Process subsystems or subsidiary interfaces. Validate the accuracy and completeness of the interfaced data. Perform follow up and resolution of determined issuesProvides guidance and assistance to Associate Tax Strategists as needed" Note there are missing spaces and punctuation. We need to preserve as is? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we should keep the text exactly as given, but we can split into list items based on sentences. However the original lacks spaces; we need to keep the content but we can add spaces for readability? That might be altering. Better to keep the original sentences as they appear, but we need to split them into list items; we can insert
- around each sentence, preserving the sentence text exactly (including missing
- for any list. Use
- .
Preferred Qualifications: also list.
Skills: maybe we can extract skills from required qualifications: Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills; Demonstrated critical thinking skills; Ability to handle multiple tasks and project simultaneously; Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines; familiarity with bookkeeping software, spreadsheets, and database management; Ability to adapt to new tools and automation; Good verbal and written skills; Client Services experience; Ability to complete assigned projects on time with minimal supervision; Ability to correctly interpret and apply complex instructions, policies and regulations. Also Mid-level Knowledge of integrated online accounting applications; Experience with GAAP; etc. Could be considered skills.
But we already have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications sections; maybe we don't need separate Skills section if content overlaps. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications into a single "Requirements" section? But they have headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide which to include based on content.
We have both required and preferred qualifications. Could put required under "Requirements" and preferred under "Qualifications". Skills could be derived from both but maybe we can omit Skills if it's thin.
But we need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have required qualifications (specific). Preferred qualifications (specific). Skills: we could extract but might be redundant. However we could still include Skills section with list of skills (communication, critical thinking, etc.) but that would be thin? Might be okay.
But we need to avoid filler like "Mid-level" repeated. That's substantive though.
Let's decide sections:
- About the role (paragraph)
- Responsibilities (list)
- Requirements (required qualifications)
- Qualifications (preferred qualifications)
- Benefits (list)
- Pay (paragraph + range)
We'll omit Skills and Schedule.
Now we need to format.
HTML fragment: use
- . Might be many items; we need to extract each distinct duty from the paragraph. Could break by sentences.
Let's list duties from the role paragraph (split by sentences):
1. Apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports and prepare corporate entity and partnership returns.
2. Preparing personal and business income tax returns and statements for audits.
3. Prepares, submits, and manages tax statements and returns for businesses and clients.
4. Provides advice on financial and tax matters and should have an in-dept knowledge of the regulations, laws and acts that govern the process.
5. Mentor and guide peers through knowledge transfer and skill development.
6. Foster and enhance continuous improvement initiatives.
7. Accurately process various forms of financial information and materials, ensuring compliance with relevant reporting requirements.
8. Prepare tax statements, financial statements, and BAS statements at required intervals.
9. Create and return statements and documents to clients by set deadlines.
10. Preparing business income tax returns and statements for audits.
11. Manage tax administration responsibilities required of assigned accounts include tax code research, tax return preparation, and tax planning.
12. Identifying opportunities to minimize tax liability through deductions and credits.
13. Engage regularly with clients and maintain strong relationships.
14. Stay current with knowledge of federal and state tax laws, regulatory and compliance requirements, and tax planning techniques.
15. Regularly research financial landscape and market trends.
16. Assist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end analysis of accounts for assigned lines of business.
17. Validate the accuracy of data from subsystems.
18. Process subsystems or subsidiary interfaces.
19. Validate the accuracy and completeness of the interfaced data.
20. Perform follow up and resolution of determined issues.
21. Provides guidance and assistance to Associate Tax Strategists as needed.
Some duplicates: #2 and #10 similar; we could keep both but maybe deduplicate. The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplicated lines: we should remove duplicated lines. So we need to detect duplicates and remove them. The duplicate is "Preparing personal and business income tax returns and statements for audits." and "Preparing business income tax returns and statements for audits." Not exact duplicate but similar. Might be considered duplicated? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. Likely they mean exact duplicate lines. We'll keep both as they are slightly different (personal vs business). But we could keep both.
Now Required Qualifications list: we need to output as