Tax Staff Accountant

Responsibilities

• Tax return compliance preparation including forms 1040, 1120, 1120S, 1065 and 1041
• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key client sponsors and growing client base.
• Assist with generating new business opportunities and building client networks and relationships.
• Understand our service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients with our comprehensive solutions.
• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining, and training our team of up and coming professionals.
• Ensure professional development through ongoing education.
• Provide thoughtful leadership and insightful recommendations surrounding a broad range of complex issues by leveraging expertise and experience.

Requirements

• BA / BS Degree in Accounting or Finance
• CPA or EA Certification (or in progress toward certification) preferred
• Tax Internship or 1-2 years’ current public accounting experience.
• Experience with tax compliance including preparation of Form 1040, 1120, 1120-S and 1065 tax returns preferred
• Proficiency with computerized tax software & Microsoft Office.
• Strong client rapport & project management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, interactive, results-based team environment.
• Strong leadership, recruiting, training, and mentoring skills, coupled with excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Comfortable working in a remote environment.

In addition, specific skills / experience required are as follows :

• Servant Leader You are hyper focused on engaging employees, fostering their development, and building a positive culture.
• Solutions Focused You see opportunities in every business problem and can develop, articulate, and implement solutions.
• Collaboration You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
• Instills Trust - You do what you say, and you follow through on commitments, you act with integrity, you are consistent and are perceived as credible.
• Impact & Influence Thinking You gain support for ideas, proposals, and solutions, and get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives / objectives.

About Sikich Sikichis a global company specializing in Accounting, Advisory, and Technical professional services. With employees across the globe, Sikich ranks as one of the largest professional services companies in the United States.

Our comprehensive skillsets, obtained over decades of experience as entrepreneurs, business owners and industry innovators, allow us to provide insights and transformative strategies to help strengthen every dimension of our clients’ businesses.

Sikich Total Rewards Our team members enjoy expansive benefits ranging from competitive compensation and insurance options to wellness programs and a flexible time off policy, to name only a few.

Sikich also takes pride in prioritizing team members’ health, total wellbeing and time spent with family, friends and in the pursuit of personal goals, hobbies, and endeavors.

Some examples of our many benefits :

Sikich maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy . We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental / physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.

Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Sikich, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in.

FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.

• Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
• Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing.

Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.

We also offer :

• Flexible work arrangements
• Health, dental, vision, life, and accident / death / disability insurance options
• HSA employer contribution
• Nine (9) paid holidays annually.
• A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
• 401(k) with employer contributions
• CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days.
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Client referral bonus program
• Pet insurance
• FORCE Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.
30+ days ago