Senior Tax Accountant

Kappa Business Advisors; North Bend (OR); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

PTO

CPA exam fees

Job summary

Kappa Business Advisors in Oregon invites a Senior Accountant to own client relationships, prepare and review tax returns, and develop proactive planning strategies.

This in-person role starts with hands-on mentoring and gradually shifts to a hybrid schedule as you grow. You'll advise business owners on entity structure and cash flow to improve bottom line. Pay: $65,000–$80,000 annually with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax and accounting experience.
• Have passed at least two CPA exam parts.
• Working knowledge of individual and business tax law.
• Familiarity with tax and accounting software.
• Strong attention to detail and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review individual, business, and pass-through tax returns for a portfolio of clients, start to finish.
• Build and present tax planning strategies that actually save clients money — proactively, not just at filing time.
• Advise business owner clients on entity structure, cash flow, and financial decisions.
• Represent the firm directly with clients and mentor staff.

Skills

Client relationships

Tax planning

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Education

CPA Exam - two parts passed

Tools

Tax software experience

Job description

Most job posts start by talking about the company. We're going to start by talking about you.

You're the person who doesn’t file something and hope it's right — you know it's right, because you checked. You've decided that boring, done-right, on-time work is a kind of craft, and you're proud of it.

Here’s the deal.

We're a tax preparation, tax planning, and business advisory practice — which means our name is only as good as the last return we filed and the last piece of advice we gave. We're looking for a Senior Accountant to own client relationships, not just process paperwork. You'll prepare and review individual and business tax returns, build real tax planning strategies for clients, and advise business owners on decisions that matter to their bottom line. This role starts in-person — we want you learning the practice shoulder-to-shoulder with the people who've been doing this for years — with the potential to move to a hybrid schedule as you grow into the role.

Here’s the bar we're actually setting:

Obsess over the client. You start from the client's problem and work backward. Every deliverable should make their business better, not just tick a compliance box.

Own it. This isn't "not my file." You act on behalf of the whole firm, not just your own workload, and you don't say "that's not my job" when something's on fire.

Refuse to let good enough win. Some things are close enough. A tax return isn't one of them. You hold a bar most people find uncomfortably high, and you don't let a filing deadline talk you out of it.

Go below the surface. You don't sign off on a return because the software didn't flag anything. You know your clients' businesses well enough to spot the planning opportunity — or the problem — before it shows up on a notice.

Earn the trust you're given. You tell clients — and colleagues — the truth, even when it's not what they want to hear. Especially then.

Move instead of waiting. Most decisions are reversible. You'd rather move a file forward and correct course than sit on it waiting for certainty that never comes.

Finish what you start. Filing season isn't a suggestion. You deliver, on quality and on time, and you don't let extensions become a habit.

What you’ll actually do:

Prepare and review individual, business, and pass-through tax returns for a portfolio of clients, start to finish. Build and present tax planning strategies that actually save clients money — proactively, not just at filing time. Advise business owner clients on entity structure, cash flow, and the financial decisions that keep them up at night. Represent the firm directly with clients so tax and advisory work isn't a black box to them. Mentor the people below you the way you wished someone had mentored you.

What you bring:

3+ years of tax and accounting experience, ideally with real ownership of client engagements under your belt. You've been through at least three busy tax seasons and know what that actually means — not just that you survived them, but that you got better each time.

Have passed at least two parts of the CPA exam — we want to see you're on the path, not just talking about it. A working knowledge of individual and business tax law that you'd defend in a room. Comfort with tax and accounting software — tell us what you've used, we're flexible. The instinct to double-check your own work before anyone else has to. And the kind of communication skills that let you explain a tax strategy to a client who isn't an accountant, without making them feel dumb for asking.

Why this one, and not the fifteen other listings you have open:

Because we're not looking for someone to fill a seat. We're looking for someone who wants ownership to actually mean something — over clients, over outcomes, over their own growth toward that license.

In-person to start, with hybrid flexibility as you grow into the role.

Pay: $65,000–$80,000/year, based on experience. Benefits: health insurance with a real employer contribution toward your premium, 401(k) with a company match, PTO you can actually take, and paid CPA exam fees, study materials, and CPE — plus a lighter schedule once filing season wraps.