Tax Accountant

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Location:

Remote (open to candidates in any geography)

Engagement:
Full-time (40 hrs/week), long-term contractor

Compensation: $16/hour

Type:
Contractor

The client is a boutique tax and advisory firm based in New Jersey, serving entrepreneurs, privately held businesses, and high-net-worth households across the NY/NJ metro area and nationally. They combine Big Four technical experience with boutique-firm responsiveness: proactive, year-round tax planning and advisory rather than compliance-only service. They are a two-partner firm building out our systems and team, and this is their first full-time hire.

We are hiring an experienced US tax professional to run tax production for the firm and operate as a true extension of the partner team. This is a management-track role: you’ll start in production and grow into running it. You will own the tax workflow day to day, perform first-level technical review so partner review is a final sign-off, oversee the bookkeeping workstream that feeds the returns, and help build the systems, standards, and team that support our growth.

This is the first seat on our team, and the person in it is who we will build the team under.

The role is year-round. Compliance peaks seasonally, but planning, projections, and review work for our advisory clients runs all twelve months.

Tax technical depth is the priority. Bookkeeping and financial reporting are part of the role, but we are hiring first for someone who knows US individual and pass-through taxation well enough to catch issues, explain them, and fix them without a partner rebuilding the work.

• Prepare and perform first-level review of complex individual (1040) and pass-through (1065, 1120-S) returns, plus 1120 and 1041 as needed, including multi-state filings (NJ/NY and others)
• Work through the technical issues that drive our client base: partner and shareholder basis, at-risk and passive activity limitations, QBI, depreciation (bonus, §179, cost segregation), S corp reasonable compensation, NIIT, and state sourcing and PTET
• Own the return workflow in Ultra Tax and Tax Dome from organizer through e-file, including extensions, estimated payments, and tie-out to source documents and work papers
• Build and review tax projections, estimated-payment calculations, and planning analyses ahead of partner planning calls
• Research technical questions and draft concise written positions for partner sign-off
• Prepare first drafts of IRS and state notice responses

• Run the firm’s production calendar: deadlines, extensions, status tracking, and capacity planning
• Review the work of preparers and bookkeepers as the team grows, with clear, actionable feedback
• Build and maintain review checklists, workpaper standards, and SOPs so quality doesn’t depend on any one person
• Act as the partners' day-to-day operational counterpart: join planning meetings, surface issues early, and bring recommendations, not just questions
• Communicate directly with clients on document requests and routine tax matters;
  escalate judgement calls to the partners
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