Tax Associate - Cannabis Solutions Group

Tax Associate - Cannabis Solutions Group

Job Category: Professionals

Requisition Number: TAXAS
002536

Posted: December 22, 2025

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Location: On-site

Youngstown 95y
6603 Summit Dr
Canfield, OH 44406, USA

HBK Cannabis Solutions is a dedicated team of cannabis industry subject matter experts within HBK CPAs & Consultants. We were among the first accounting firms to specialize in the cannabis industry and are trusted advisors to entrepreneurs in all industry segments.

HBK is growing, now a Top 50 accounting firm according to Accounting Today magazine and a Top 100 registered investment advisory according to Financial Advisor Magazine. Our hundreds of collaborating professionals have created and foster thousands of close, caring, supportive client relationships.

Growth requires talent, so we continue to seek capable, dedicated professionals in all aspects of financial services. Our recruits choose their career paths. We want you to excel in your career as part of a dynamic team, and we provide the support and the resources to help you succeed. The breadth and depth of experience we offer you is unique in the marketplace.

We are entrepreneurs working with entrepreneurs, owners working with people who are owners of small and mid-size businesses, the heartbeat of our country. We are more consultants than number crunchers, an influence in our communities as well as our clients and their finances. When we go home at night, we know we’ve made something happen for our clients. If you want a career that is all about helping people, you’re the kind of person we’re looking for.

Please read on to discover if you could see yourself joining the HBK Family as our newest Tax Associate.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• Knowledge of the basic accounting concepts
• Have insight and demonstrate ability to handle in-charge responsibilities

• Prepare simple financial statements.
• Reconcile bank accounts and trace discrepancies.
• Reconcile subsidiary accounts to control accounts.
• Assist in preparation and mailing of confirmation requests.
• Schedule confirmations returned, list exceptions, and follow up on their disposition.
• Perform, or assist in, inventory observations.
• Assist with engagement planning.
• Perform interim accounting services (monthly or quarterly) of small companies where the work is of a repetitive nature and prepare substantiating work papers in a format that is sufficiently detailed for a reviewer to evaluate.
• Excerpt leases, minutes, and other documents and prepare transmittal of journal entries to clients.
• Prepare work papers that are organized, neat, cross-referenced, and supported by conclusions.
• Search for unrecorded liabilities by examining unpaid bills, accounts payable and disbursements after balance sheet date.
• Take ownership of engagements, meet (or beat) established deadlines and budgets.
• Update and calculate depreciation and amortization and enter asset activity into depreciation software.
• Prepare payroll tax, sales and other local tax, personal property and simple to average income tax returns.
• Be able to compile raw data into trial balance format, including recapping cash receipts and disbursements.
• Prepare tax returns as needed using HBK software.
• Prepare tax adjusting journal entries tax reconciliation and perform import into tax software.
• Practice effective communication when completing all tasks.
• Identify problem areas that need to be discussed with engagement leader.
• Follow regulations and professional ethics of the AICPA and the state society.
• Follow firm procedures and comply with firm policies as outlined in the Human Resource Manual.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of all client and firm business.
• Keep up to date on all professional pronouncements.
• Ability to work overtime as required.
• Maintain professional conduct at client offices and internally.
• Take the CPA exam at every offering and pass it within two years of hire.
• Know how to use reference materials as needed using HBK resources in researching situations involving non-complex tax questions.
• Know how to use reference materials such as PPC and CCH in researching non-complex…