Senior Tax Accountant

Build your tax expertise while working directly with closely held businesses and individual clients. You will prepare business and individual returns, research tax questions, contribute to planning, and take increasing responsibility for moving engagements forward.

You will work with managers and partners on technical issues and client needs, with opportunities to strengthen your review skills and help less-experienced colleagues develop.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Prepare federal and state income tax returns for closely held businesses and individuals, with complete, organized supporting workpapers.
• Research tax questions, document conclusions, and identify matters that need manager or partner input.
• Assist with tax projections, estimated payments, extensions, and planning recommendations.
• Communicate with clients to obtain information, resolve questions, and explain next steps clearly.
• Manage assigned deadlines, track outstanding items, and raise technical or scheduling issues early.
• Review selected work appropriate to your experience and help junior staff understand review feedback.
• Support compilation, financial statement review, and audit engagements as assigned.

WHAT YOU BRING

• At least four years of public accounting experience, with substantial experience in business and individual taxation.
• An active CPA or EA license, or progress toward one.
• The ability to prepare business and individual tax returns with limited day-to-day direction and respond thoughtfully to review comments.
• Sound accounting fundamentals, organized workpapers, and practical tax research skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication, reliable follow-through, and comfort working directly with clients and colleagues.

HELPFUL ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Reviewing returns or workpapers prepared by others and helping junior colleagues develop.
• Gift, estate, fiduciary, or retirement-plan returns; experience in every specialty is not expected.
• Compilation, financial statement review, or audit engagements.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Base salary: $90,000–$115,000 per year, based on relevant experience and qualifications.

The firm offers the following benefits, subject to applicable eligibility requirements and firm policies:

• 401(k) plan with 3% employer contributions.
• Medical and dental insurance contribution.
• Employer-paid life insurance.
• Unlimited vacation and paid holidays.
• Employer-paid continuing professional education.
• Employer-paid professional licenses and applicable AICPA and state CPA society dues.
• Fridays off from May through December, except for specified weeks around the September and October extension deadlines.

Interested? Reply to chat, or call or text 612-431-7383. You can send your resume confidentially to deborah.paine@gogpac.com.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.

GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.