Tax Supervisor

There’s a slightly backwards thing that happens when you become a really good Tax Senior.

You become indispensable.

Which sounds lovely, until you realise “indispensable” can sometimes mean doing Manager level work without the title, influence or salary that should come with it.

This opportunity is for someone ready to change that.

You’d be joining a growing, independent CPA firm of around 75 people where the tax practice is busy for the right reason: clients want to work with them. In fact, they’re currently turning some work away rather than piling it onto an already stretched team.

That tells you quite a lot about how they think.

The firm is growing organically across Tennessee and wants to add another experienced person who can become an important part of the Tax team.

They aren’t trying to become enormous. They’re deliberately staying independent, keeping decisions close to the people actually running the firm and growing at a pace that doesn’t destroy the culture along the way.

For a Tax Supervisor, that creates quite a nice opportunity. You get the resources, client variety and progression of a substantial regional practice, but you’re still somewhere your contribution is visible.

There aren’t seven layers between you and the people making decisions.

This is the step where your job starts becoming less about how many returns you can personally get through and more about how well you can make the whole engagement run.

You’ll still stay technically involved, but you’ll also start taking greater ownership of clients, reviewing work and helping develop the people around you.

Expect a mix of:

• Business and individual taxation
• Complex return review
• Tax planning and advisory conversations
• Client relationship management
• Mentoring and developing junior staff
• Working closely with Managers and Partners
• Managing workflow and deadlines across engagements

The firm uses CCH Axcess Tax and has also invested in newer technology such as Blue J for tax research. It’s a good example of the wider mindset here: use technology to make good accountants better, rather than simply finding new ways to make everybody busier.

This is probably one of the more interesting parts of the opportunity.

There’s no desire to sell out to private equity or disappear into a huge platform. Leadership wants the firm to remain independent and continue growing organically.

That means decisions around clients, people and investment remain much closer to home.

It also means growth can actually create opportunities for the people already inside the firm.

And there is plenty of growth.

The Chattanooga market is particularly active, the firm has continued climbing industry rankings and there’s enough incoming work that they can afford to be selective about what they take on.

That’s a much nicer growth problem than desperately chasing revenue.

“Friendly culture” is easy to write on a careers page.

Retention is usually more interesting.

People have built long careers here, and they’ve even had employees leave for much larger firms before deciding the grass wasn’t particularly greener and coming back.

There’s a strong emphasis on quality rather than sheer quantity, with leadership trying to preserve the feel of a local firm even as the business becomes larger.

You’ll have experienced people around you, but enough autonomy to start developing your own style with clients and staff.

The benefits are strong, particularly for an independent firm.

You’ll receive:

• 4 weeks PTO as standard
• The entire week of July 4th off
• Blue Cross Blue Shield healthcare
• HSA and PPO options
• Around 90% of employee healthcare costs covered
• 401(…