Tax Senior Manager - SALT

Professional Outlook; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established regional CPA firm is seeking a Tax Senior to enhance their growing team in Frisco, Texas. This role offers a balanced work-life environment, excellent benefits, and opportunities for career progression. The Tax Senior will manage diverse tax projects, ensuring compliance and delivering a full range of tax services to clients across various industries.

Benefits

Overtime paid at time and one half

5% employer contribution to 401K

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

• 2 to 3 years proven work experience in state and local tax required.
• Current CPA license or working towards it.
• Broad exposure to multistate taxation and credits.

Responsibilities

• Assist with planning, executing, directing, and completing tax projects.
• Deliver State and Local Tax services including tax return preparation.
• Conduct multi-disciplinary reviews to identify optimal filing options.

Skills

Tax accounting skills

Multistate sales and use taxation

Research and Development tax credits

Proficient in US GAAP

General accounting principles

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting

Master’s degree in accounting

Law degree

Job description

Well established, highly profitable regional CPA firm seeks a Tax Senior to add to their growing staff. We offer a very reasonable work life balance, excellent benefits including overtime paid at time and one half and a 5% employer contribution to your 401K program, a choice of both SEC and closely held clients to work on across diverse industry groups, and fast track career progression. Senior tax associates in the Specialty Tax Services group serve as members of various client service teams and must possess foundational technical knowledge in areas including, but not limited to :

• Multistate Sales and Use Taxation
• Multistate Credits & Incentives (Including Federal and State R&D Tax Credits)
• Property Taxation Senior Specialty Tax associates are given a wide variety of diversified tax assignments under the supervision of different professionals and are responsible for the support of a full range of tax planning, consulting and compliance services to clients.

Responsibilities :

• Assist with engagements, which includes planning, executing, directing, and completing tax projects and managing to budget within a given timeline.
• Deliver a full range of State and Local Tax services including tax return preparation and review, tax research, preparation of technical memorandums, and drafting client correspondence. Assignments include, but are not limited to, reverse sales tax reviews, audit defense, and research of sales tax issues.
• Conduct multi-disciplinary, multi-state reviews that analyze income, franchise, sales and use, payroll, ad valorem taxes, and others to identify optimal filing options, exemptions, credits and incentives, and corporate structures that can reduce the client's tax burden.
• Prepare returns for more complex State and Local Tax returns including Income and Franchise Tax, Sales and Use Tax, Property Tax, etc. and demonstrate an understanding of increasingly complex tax concepts.
• Respond to inquiries from the IRS and other tax authorities.

Qualifications :

• Broad exposure to multistate sales and use taxation, credits and incentives, and / or the Research and Development tax credits, a plus.
• Proficient in tax accounting skills with proficiency in US GAAP, tax compliance, corporate consolidated returns, and combined state tax returns.
• Foundational knowledge of multistate income / franchise tax and general accounting principles.
• 2 to 3 years proven work experience in state and local tax required (Big 4 firm experience a plus, but not required).
• Bachelor’s degree, usually in accounting, or master’s degree in accounting. Law degree a plus, but not required.
• Either hold a current and valid CPA’s license or be working toward obtaining the license by taking and passing the applicable state CPA exam.