Tax Senior: BPM in Santa Rosa

BPM is hiring a full-time Tax Senior
- Flow through
- Wine Industry Experience in Santa Rosa, California. The role prepares and reviews federal, state, and local tax returns for flow through entities, including partnerships and S corporations. The position works onsite at BPM's Santa Rosa office with a hybrid schedule.

Tax planning, multi-state compliance, entity structuring, inventory costing, and beverage alcohol compliance all fall within the role's client work. The hire works with winery, vineyard, agribusiness, and consumer-products clients. The role requires a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field and three to five or more years of public-accounting experience focused on flow through taxation. BPM prefers CPA status or progress toward the credential.

• Role: Tax Senior
  - Flow through
  - Wine Industry Experience

Candidates review the flow through tax experience, wine-industry client work, and CPA preference before applying. The Santa Rosa office and hybrid schedule are the work-arrangement choices to settle before an application is submitted.

BPM's tax senior work covers partnership and S corporation matters, where entity structure affects the preparation, review, and explanation of tax returns. The position also supports tax planning and consulting engagements that involve multi-state compliance and entity structuring.

The work includes work papers for complex tax positions, tax research, and client-specific recommendations. Controllers, chief financial officers, owners, and other client contacts receive explanations of the analysis, while several engagements move forward at the same time.

• Federal, state, and local return preparation and review
• Multi-state compliance and entity structuring
• Tax research and planning recommendations
• Work papers for complex tax positions
• Communication with controllers, CFOs, owners, and other clients

BPM's winery practice serves estate wineries, custom crush facilities, tasting-room operations, wine clubs, direct-to-consumer businesses, and vineyard management companies. Those client structures give the Santa Rosa team work across production, agricultural operations, hospitality, and wine sales.

Wine production creates accounting work that follows harvest timing, production stages, inventory valuation, and the aging of finished stock. The role addresses inventory costing, production accounting, and valuation, including UNICAP considerations under Section 263A.

Beverage alcohol work includes excise-tax questions and TTB considerations. The role also addresses tax implications connected to wine production cycles, agricultural operations, and distribution models, so client files can combine entity, inventory, and regulatory questions.

BPM serves wine businesses that range from boutique producers making about 500 cases each year to established brands managing several vineyard properties. Family-owned operations, multi-entity structures, and private-equity-backed winery businesses all appear in the role's client profile.

The Santa Rosa office is one of BPM's locations in California and Oregon wine regions. The role works with clients whose operations include vineyard development, winery production, tasting-room sales, wine clubs, and direct-to-consumer shipments.

Client work requires several forms of communication during each engagement. A tax senior researches a question, documents the position, explains the result to a client contact, and keeps deadlines aligned across concurrent assignments.

The role also connects the Santa Rosa office with wine professionals working in production, vineyard management, sales, and finance. That contact range places accounting analysis alongside the operational decisions that shape a winery's tax records.

BPM provides CPA exam resources and bonuses for eligible professionals. The firm also runs BPM University classes, workshops, and seminars that support technical learning and client-service skills.

A coach program adds structured guidance during professional development. The role's accounting degree, public-accounting experience, and flow through focus create the technical base for that training, while wine-industry assignments add production and beverage-compliance context.

BPM provides flexible work arrangements, personalized benefit structures, a wellness platform with incentives, an employee assistance program, mental health resources, and…