Senior Tax Accountant (Public Accounting)

Job Title: Tax Senior Accountant

Are you a skilled accounting professional with strong technical skills, deep accounting knowledge, and experience in public accounting? This position offers a unique opportunity to take on the compliance work for postsecondary institutions, allowing them to focus on supporting and educating their students. If you're results-oriented, mission-driven, and dedicated to finding solutions for clients, this role could be an ideal fit.

Our ideal Tax Senior Accountant is:

• Team-Oriented: You're honest, personable, and self-aware, collaborating with the team and leading by example to help build and maintain a positive culture. You balance being respected and liked.

• Accountable: You understand expectations, hold yourself and others accountable, celebrate success, admit mistakes, and are solution-oriented.

• An Implementer: A proactive, consistent performer who uses creativity and innovation to achieve results.

• A Lifelong Learner: You're eager to absorb knowledge and continuously seek improvement. With high emotional intelligence, you're willing to learn what you don't know.

As a Tax Senior Accountant, you create value, manage time effectively, and embrace change. You share our core values of prioritizing the team, fostering learning and development, providing solutions to both staff and clients, and supporting a family-focused culture.

The responsibilities of the Tax Senior Accountant include, but are not limited to:

• Prepare complex tax filings for corporations, S-corporations, partnerships, nonprofits, and individuals.

• Conduct tax research for individual transactions and during tax preparation to ensure accuracy and efficiency.

• Serve as a trusted resource for Tax Staff on specific tax issues and questions.

• Prepare income tax projections and quarterly estimated tax calculations.

• Assist in preparing tax provision and tax accrual work papers.

• Gather and organize client information necessary for filing.

• Apply working knowledge of tax law during the preparation of various tax forms.

• Demonstrate an intermediate understanding of differences between Tax and GAAP regulations (e.g., income recognition and expense deductibility).

• Demonstrate and embody our core values.

• Act as a client contact for general questions and information requests.

• Share experience and knowledge to train and develop other staff.

• Use resources efficiently and effectively, managing time appropriately.

• Motivate and share skills with new employees.

• CPA, CPA candidate, or IRS Enrolled Agent (EA).

• 2 years in a public accounting firm.

• 3-5 years of professional accounting experience.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.

Location: This is a hybrid position headquartered in Bridgeville, PA. Local candidates only.