Senior Tax Associate

Senior Tax Associate

$140,000 to $160,000 base

The right Senior Tax Associate will step into meaningful client work with both complexity and visibility. This role blends compliance, research, planning, and advisory with real responsibility and influence.

If you genuinely enjoy entity work, think critically about tax strategy, and want your judgment to matter, this is worth a closer look.

Our client is a well established and growing professional services firm with a strong reputation for technical excellence and long standing client relationships.

Clients stay. Team members stay. Leadership invests in doing the work correctly and building something durable. Tax is central to the firm’s identity, and tax professionals collaborate closely with advisory colleagues throughout the year.

The culture is modern, ethical, low ego, and genuinely collaborative. The focus is long term stability and thoughtful growth.

The Senior Tax Associate is responsible for preparing and reviewing simple and complex tax returns, conducting tax research, and providing strategic tax planning and advisory services. This role requires a deep understanding of federal, state, and local tax regulations, as well as the ability to interpret and apply tax laws to various client situations.

The Senior Tax Associate will work closely with clients and internal teams to ensure compliance, optimize tax positions, and support business decision making. Additionally, this position involves mentoring junior staff and assisting in managing client engagements.

Required: Strong entity tax experience, including S Corporations 1120S, Partnerships 1065, and Individual 1040 returns.

This is a seat for someone who brings both technical depth and professional maturity.

You will:

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to optimize tax positions and strategies
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation and filing of tax returns, including corporate, state, local, and international taxes
• Monitor changes in tax legislation and ensure compliance across jurisdictions
• Assist with tax audits, including preparing responses to tax authority inquiries and resolving disputes

You will:

• Conduct research on complex tax issues and develop strategies for minimizing tax liabilities
• Advise clients on tax implications of business transactions, restructurings, and financial decisions
• Monitor changes in tax legislation and inform clients and team members of potential impacts

You will:

• Serve as a key point of contact for clients, managing relationships and addressing tax related concerns
• Work collaboratively with clients to develop tax planning strategies tailored to their needs
• Provide recommendations to improve tax efficiency and compliance Team Leadership

  You will:

  • Supervise and mentor tax professionals, providing guidance and feedback
  • Review work prepared by junior staff for accuracy and completeness
  • Assist in training team members on tax regulations, compliance requirements, and software tools
  Cross Functional Collaboration

  You will:

  • Work with wealth management and other departments to support business initiatives and transactions
  • Provide tax insights during mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic projects
  Other

  The Employee shall perform such other duties as are customarily performed by other persons in similar positions, including other duties as may arise from time to time and as may be assigned.

  This role will not be the right fit for someone looking to simply check boxes.

  But for the right Senior Tax Associate who values technical excellence, client trust, and meaningful responsibility, this can be a defining next step.

  If that sounds aligned, let’s talk.