Job Title: Tax Accountant

Location: Reston, VA

Description/Job Summary

HGL - WHO WE ARE

At HGL, we value our employees as individuals and as important members of our team. We offer a work environment that is flexible, inclusive, and dedicated to creating a sustainable future. We provide opportunities for a dynamic work environment surrounded by industry leaders working to solve today’s environmental, infrastructure, and natural resources challenges. HGL offers career advancement through internal and external training, skill advancement, and education. Projects at HGL span the United States and its territories all while solving problems associated with emerging contaminants (PFAS, radiological, and unexploded ordnance) along with traditional chemical contamination across all media.

With over 550 employees, HGL is large enough to execute high profile projects but is small enough where the President and COO know everyone by name. By joining HGL, you will be working to restore the environment and protect our future.

HGL - WE INVEST IN YOU

It’s not just a job, it’s your career. HGL provides career growth opportunities via mentoring, training, education, and support for your certifications and licenses. HGL’s mission is to continually deliver new solutions and technologies for the ever-changing range of environmental challenges encountered in today’s world. HGL’s corporate culture ensures you’ll be given the opportunity for career advancement while being supported by bright, highly productive peers and leaders.

Position Description

HGL is searching for a qualified tax accountant to prepare and process all tax payments and returns for our organization. This role requires prior accounting experience, along with great knowledge of current law, regulations, and tax requirements. The successful candidate will have a keen attention to detail, be highly organized, and know a significant deal about tax management. They should also know how to recommend the best tax processes that strictly adhere to all legal requirements while simultaneously promoting our company’s financial prosperity. After a ramp-up period of 2 months in the Reston, VA office, a work from home schedule will be available.

Responsibilities/Duties

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Assist external accounting firm with preparation of federal, state and local corporate income tax returns in compliance with applicable tax laws.
• Preparation of local sales/use tax, BPOL, property tax returns, gross receipts tax, excise tax, etc.
• Maintain tax compliance workbooks that support tax reporting
• Assist external accounting firm in preparation of quarterly and annual income tax provisions, including reconciliation and roll-forward of deferred tax accounts.
• Support tax workflows to include the annual budget, annual audit, forecasting, Forward Pricing Rate Proposals.
• Identify and implement tax department automation and technology initiatives.
• Assist with improvements to tax department processes and other special projects.
• Identify tax savings opportunities
• Provide guidance on taxability of transactions related to government contract proposals.
• Primary point of contact for all tax audits and tax authorities

Required Skills

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, accounting or economics, and 6 years of relevant experience; Master’s degree/CPA and 4 years of relevant professional experience.
• Federal/state tax
• GAAP, FAR, CAS
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office
• Financial analysis
• Forecasting
• Accounting software
• CPA certification (or candidate)
• Collaboration

Preferred Skills

WHAT YOU NEED TO STAND OUT – Preferred, not required

• Experience preparing complex consolidated and combined income tax returns for mid-size corporations.
• Public accounting tax experience and/or accounting at a defense contractor or agency
• Experience with taxation of both domestic and US territories
• Experience with Excel data analysis
• Experience with tax research services
• Knowledge of the provisions and application of ASC 740, Income Tax Accounting
• High level of written and oral communication skills

More About HGL And The Opportunity

We are all unique in our experiences and diversity of backgrounds, yet we share a drive and vision in our belief that we can make a difference in improving the world we live in through collaboration, teamwork, and a positive work environment. This unites and empowers us to strive for excellence in all our endeavors.

A pre-hire drug test is required.

We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by phone at 703-478-5186 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.