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Location: Woodland Hills, CA or L.A. | Schedule: full-time, hybrid in-office and home based | Compensation: not specified

Overview

A well established, highly profitable regional CPA firm is seeking a direct entry Tax Partner to join its growing practice. This is a client-facing leadership role covering corporate, partnership, and high net worth individual tax, with the opportunity to help develop staff and grow the firm's business.

What you'll do

• Provide the firm's full range of accounting, auditing, tax, and advisory services to designated clients
• Review and sign off on tax returns
• Participate in recruiting, training, retention, and utilization of tax staff, including recruiting at colleges and universities
• Interview candidates and oversee extending offers of employment to potential tax staff
• Review and evaluate accounting staff for promotion and salary adjustment decisions, and release staff who are not to be retained
• Maintain technical competence through professional literature, financial publications, and professional development seminars
• Develop new business by expanding services to existing clients, pursuing prospective clients, and maintaining relationships with bankers, attorneys, and investment bankers
• Help establish and monitor an annual training program for professional staff at various levels
• Assign accounting staff with an emphasis on continuity of assignments
• Counsel accounting staff on grievances, professional development, and progress within the firm
• Contribute to updating the firm's Quality Control Document
• Participate in practice development efforts and various firm committees
• Support compliance guidelines in managing others and promote efficient firm operations
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Managing Partner
• Oversee development, coaching, and training of all tax employees, and participate in their reviews, compensation, and evaluations

Required qualifications

• 10 to 15 years of experience in public accounting, with proven progression in complexity, scope, and number of engagements managed
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, or Master's degree in accounting
• Minimum of 40 hours of continuing professional education required each year
• Current and valid CPA license
• Strong knowledge of tax laws and regulations in both audit and tax
• Proficiency with computers, tax research tools, financial software, and tax software programs
• Demonstrated ability to bring in new business to a CPA firm
• Ability to organize work and projects, prioritize, meet deadlines, and complete work efficiently and accurately
• Strong reasoning ability and capacity to effectively multi-task

Compensation and benefits

• Excellent benefits with large potential bonuses
• 5% employer contribution to 401K program
• High profit sharing potential
• Reasonable work-life balance

Why this role

This role offers a reasonable work-life balance along with excellent benefits, including large potential bonuses, a 5% employer 401K contribution, and high profit sharing potential.