Accounting & Tax Manager

HRX CPAS | Irvine, CA (Hybrid) | Full-Time

HRX CPAS is looking for a Tax & Accounting Manager who's ready to become the face of the firm to our clients and the engine behind how we scale. This isn't a  review returns and go home  role — it's a shot at building out a team from the ground up, owning real client relationships, and eating what you kill as the firm grows.

We think this is the golden era of accounting, and we're building the firm to prove it.

HRX CPAS is a fast-growing, tech-forward firm based in Irvine, working hybrid, serving affluent individuals with business ownership, high‑W2 earners navigating complex equity compensation, and small businesses that need real bookkeeping and CFO‑level guidance — not a shoebox of receipts once a year. We're early enough that the person who joins now shapes how the firm operates for years to come.

We believe in keeping it simple, building systems instead of grinding through busywork, and using the best tools available. (Yes, we're a Google Sheets, Mac, and Claude shop. ChatGPT need not apply.)

We're hiring someone to take over the client‑facing seat and grow into a true second‑in‑command — eventually running the day‑to‑day so the owner can step back and focus on growth. This role comes with a mandate to build: you'll be recruiting, training, and managing the team as we scale, not just filling a seat on an existing one. A year in, success looks like: you've built real relationships with our top clients, stood up systems that make tax advisory and bookkeeping faster and more consistent, and you're actively growing the team under you.

• Own the full relationship for a growing book of tax advisory and bookkeeping clients — year‑round, not just April
• Review (and sometimes prepare) individual and business tax returns; build and implement tax plans that actually move the needle
• Oversee monthly bookkeeping and financial statement review, including onboarding clients with messy books and cleaning up their chart of accounts
• Be the technical resource the team calls when they've got a hard tax question and trust to give a straight answer
• Recruit, train, and manage a growing team as the firm scales — this is a build‑the‑bench role, not a maintain‑the‑status‑quo one
• Build and refine the systems and SOPs that let this firm scale without drowning every March and April
• Talk to affluent clients in a way that makes hard decisions feel simple

• 5+ years' experience with individual and business tax returns
• 5+ years' experience with Quick Books Online or a comparable system
• Comfortable advising on equity compensation, real estate, and business ownership situations — not just W-2 returns
• Proven ability to hire, train, and develop people — you've built a team before, or you're clearly ready to
• A systems mindset — you'd rather build a process once than repeat manual work forever
• Strong client‑facing communication with affluent clients
• CPA or EA (or actively pursuing)

• CFO or fractional CFO advisory experience
• You have opinions on Jason Staats' content and can't help but poke holes in Karlton Dennis' tax takes

• Hybrid, Irvine-based
• No time sheets, no clock‑punching
• Eat‑what‑you‑kill upside as you build your book, with a real path to owning how this firm runs
• We use the best tools, not the standard ones — Sheets over Excel, Mac over PC, Claude over ChatGPT