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Tax Partner
All, Finance
West Los Angeles, CA
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.
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