Tax Accountant/CPA (Partner Track)

RYAN, HODGINS & ASSOCIATES CPAS; Minnesota; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Health and dental

HSA

Life insurance

Paid sick time

CE credits

Job summary

RYAN, HODGINS & ASSOCIATES CPAS in Eden Prairie, MN seeks a CPA to join as a senior practitioner with an ownership path, working on tax consulting, business development, and client relationships.

You’ll own matters from fact gathering to completion, partner with the founders, and have a clear route to partnership as the founder steps back.

Qualifications

• Active CPA license and public accounting background.
• Strong tax execution and planning experience.
• Proven ability to develop client relationships and generate new business.

Responsibilities

• Lead tax consulting for individuals and businesses.
• Develop and manage client relationships and growth opportunities.
• Work with partners on client service delivery and firm strategy.
• Contribute to ownership transition planning and succession.

Skills

Tax planning

Business development

Client relationship management

Clear communication

Ownership mindset

Education

CPA license

Bachelor's in Accounting

Job description

You're great at the hard part. You take a business owner's tangled facts, find the issue, make the call, and explain it so they actually understand. Clients ask for you by name. And what that earns you where you are is a bigger review queue, a utilization target, and a partner conversation that is eight years and three committees away, at a firm where the clients belong to someone else.

We're an Eden Prairie CPA firm that's been serving businesses and families since 1986. Two partners handle all tax consulting, business development, and core client relationships, with a team of about ten in accounting and administration supporting them. The founding partner is in his mid-70s and has stepped back from full-time work. Nobody else on the team wants to do what the partners do.

We need a third person who can, and the intended path is for that person to become our third owner and, when the founder retires, one of two.

What you get that you can't get where you are

• A True Mentor. Instead of being left to find and build your own book, you'll find a founder who prospects alongside you, uses his contacts to develop your client base, and trains his successor: introductions to existing clients, joint meetings with prospects, referral relationships, and how he earns confidence. You learn it, then run it. You're never left to find one.
• The full width of the work. Individual, corporate, partnership, trust and transfer-tax matters; financial statements; business, estate, retirement and succession planning. You own matters from fact gathering through the client conversation and follow-through, with two partners a door away instead of a ticketing queue.
• An ownership path with a clear rationale. Ownership is earned and agreed, not awarded at hire, and there is no fixed timetable. What makes it real is that the firm's continuity depends on developing its next owner, and no one else is in line.

How the pay works

Compensation is negotiable and built around the right person: a strong base salary plus a percentage of revenue. The posted range is a guide; the firm will fit comp to your needs. As your book grows, the mix is designed to shift toward revenue share as the main driver, because that is how an owner should be paid. Benefits include a 401(k) with match, health and dental, an HSA, life insurance, paid sick time, and CE credits.

Where the work happens

This is a full-time, on-site role in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. If you are elsewhere and would move to the Twin Cities for the right practice, apply: paid relocation is available.

What the week looks like

Technical delivery, client meetings, partner consultation, and deliberate business development, every week. Deadlines don't cancel relationship work, and prospecting doesn't displace technical quality. Small-firm breadth means hands-on work and visible accountability. You must become excellent at both tax and business development; one without the other isn't enough here.

What it takes

• Active CPA license (late-stage CPA-track may be considered)
• Strong judgment in individual and business tax execution and planning from public accounting tax work. Newly licensed CPAs with real client-facing experience are welcome, and so are experienced seniors and hands-on managers
• Ability to earn client trust: listening, clear explanation, follow-through. Origination experience helps; interpersonal ability is what matters
• Specific ambition to own part of a practice and take responsibility for its clients, economics and continuity

Complex pass-through and closely held business work, review experience, client-meeting responsibility, and referrals or engagements you helped win are strong signals. Trust, estate, succession, valuation, PFS, or CFP experience adds value. An existing book is fine, but not required.

The trade

You're giving up the brand on the door (at least for a little while), the layers that absorb blame for poor work, and the illusion that partnership is a promotion you wait for. You get a practice that needs you to become an owner, a founder building your book beside you, and pay that grows with it.