Senior Tax Associate

Distinct | North America; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Distinct North America, based in La Jolla, is seeking a Senior Tax Associate to start with simpler individual, corporate and partnership work and progress to more complex returns. The role offers a hybrid schedule with a salary range of $90,000 to $115,000.

You will handle trust, estate and gift work, year-end planning, and interact with IRS and state authorities. There is a clear path for advancement as you demonstrate capability through the more complex tasks.

Qualifications

• 3 to 7 years in public accounting.
• CPA preferred.
• CCH Axcess or ProSystem is useful rather than essential.

Responsibilities

• Preparing and first reviewing individual, corporate, partnership and nonprofit returns.
• Trust, estate and gift returns.
• Year end planning and quarterly estimates, including for high net worth clients.
• Training the staff and the interns, and answering the notices nobody else wants.

Skills

Public accounting experience

Education

CPA preferred

Tools

CCH Axcess

ProSystem

Job description

Somewhere around year 5 most tax seniors work out that the interesting returns never reach their desk. The consolidations, the multi state, the ones with a foreign wrinkle. Those go up, and you get the volume.

A La Jolla firm is hiring a senior tax associate and the job is written the other way round. You start on the simpler individual, corporate and partnership work, then take on the complex returns as you show you can. $90,000 to $115,000, hybrid.

There's trust, estate and gift work in it too, year end planning, and the calls from the taxing authorities when something needs answering. They also say plainly there's a step up from here for whoever earns it.

Why this firm

• $90,000 to $115,000, hybrid rather than 5 days at a desk
• The complex returns come to you as you prove out, instead of going upstairs by default
• Trusts, estates and gift returns in the mix, which is where seniors usually get stuck waiting
• You deal with the IRS and the state yourself when something lands
• The honest bit: you'll be on simpler returns first, so you have to be willing to prove it before you get the good stuff

What you'll be doing

• Preparing and first reviewing individual, corporate, partnership and nonprofit returns
• Trust, estate and gift returns
• Year end planning and quarterly estimates, including for high net worth clients
• Training the staff and the interns, and answering the notices nobody else wants

What you'll have

• 3 to 7 years in public accounting
• CPA preferred
• CCH Axcess or ProSystem is useful rather than essential