Tax Senior

Distinct | North America; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model in Sacramento

Owner-managed clients

Senior-level planning responsibilities

Job summary

Distinct | North America in Sacramento is seeking a Tax Senior to manage and review high-value returns for owner-managed businesses and professional practices. You will prepare 1040s, 1120S, and 1065s, with direct client interaction and guidance for next year's planning.

The role emphasizes senior-level planning, mentorship of staff, and working in a hybrid Sacramento environment where costs and market dynamics differ from nearby regions.

Qualifications

• CPA, or parts passed and finishing.
• 3 years or more in a CPA firm.
• Happy dealing with clients directly rather than through a manager.

Responsibilities

• Preparing the returns with something going on in them, reviewing the ones that don't.
• 1040s, 1120Ss and 1065s across an owner managed base.
• Talking to clients about next year, not just last year.
• Helping the staff underneath you get better at it.

Education

CPA knowledge or parts passed and finishing

Job description

The Sacramento tax senior band is $96k to $118k. That is, to the dollar, the same as the California band. Which is unusual, because almost nothing else in Sacramento costs what it costs in Irvine.

So the arithmetic works differently here. Same money, same returns, a house you can actually buy. Hybrid, and the client base is what you'd expect of a capital city that isn't really a capital city job market: owner managed businesses, farms an hour out, professional practices, a fair number of people whose money comes from property.

You'd be preparing the harder returns and reviewing the easier ones, talking to clients directly, and getting the planning work that at a bigger firm would be kept a level above you.

The honest part: it's a smaller market. 453 firms with more than one person in them sounds like a lot until you want your third job in the city, and then it isn't. People who move here tend to stay, which is fine if that was the plan and a problem if it wasn't.

Why this firm

• $96k to $118k, hybrid, in Sacramento
• The same band as Orange County and the Bay, in a city that costs less
• Owner managed clients, agricultural money, property money
• Planning work at senior level rather than compliance only
• The catch: a smaller market, so plan the move as a stay rather than a step

What you'll be doing

• Preparing the returns with something going on in them, reviewing the ones that don't
• 1040s, 1120Ss and 1065s across an owner managed base
• Talking to clients about next year, not just last year
• Helping the staff underneath you get better at it

What you'll have

• CPA, or parts passed and finishing
• 3 years or more in a CPA firm
• Happy dealing with clients directly rather than through a manager