Senior Tax Associate

Warren Averett is a leading CPA and advisory firm that services span beyond audit and tax to include corporate advisory, technology and risk solutions, HR Solutions, and more. While gaining professional skills that you can carry throughout your career, we help our employees to build relationships that can take you where you’d like to go. Not only has Warren Averett ranked on two of Forbes’ Best lists (America’s Best Tax Firms and America’s Best Accounting Firms), but the firm has also repeatedly been named a Best Place to Work in several of our offices through our local footprint. We strive to hone a strong sense of comradery and to provide a good workplace culture where our employees can grow and thrive professionally and personally.

Warren Averett is seeking an experienced tax associate for our Huntsville, AL office. The ideal candidate will possess their CPA and have 2 or more years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepare simple tax returns with minimal supervision, supervise the preparation of simple and moderately complicated income tax returns, and assume primary responsibility in the preparation of complicated tax returns.
• Participate with more experienced personnel in coordinating large client engagements, identification of problems, tax law and computer model analysis and helping clients determine optimal strategies.
• Perform intermediate level tasks with minimal supervision.
• Review and supervise entry level work performed by others.
• Perform Service/Job Manager responsibilities.
• Communicate with client personnel.
• Manage and prioritize multiple tasks and assigned projects.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in support of all Firm policies and procedures to promote teamwork and loyalty.
• Recognize and inform appropriate superior of clients' problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• Have CPA or be CPA eligible.
• Knowledge of and have ability to research Federal, State and Local tax codes and regulations.
• Knowledge of/and ability to apply principals of effective supervision of staff.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in working with staff and clients.

Warren Averett is an equal opportunity employer. We hire, promote, and make all other employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, genetic information, protected military service, disability, age, or any other unlawful characteristic.