Senior Accountant

Withum is a place where talent thrives - where who you are matters. It's a place of endless opportunities for growth. A place where entrepreneurial energy plus inclusive teamwork equals exponential results. Withum empowers clients and our professional staff with innovative tools and solutions to address their accounting, tax and overall business management and operational needs. As a US nationally ranked Top 25 firm, we recruit only the best and brightest people with a genuine passion for the business.

Withum's Tax Services Group is made up of a brilliant team of tax specialists that work to ensure tax reporting obligations are met in an accurate and timely manner and minimize or defer the payment of taxes. Their comprehensive understanding of international, US federal, state, and local regulations, counting our affiliation with HLB international, allows them to help develop economical tax strategies anywhere. Their services include Business, Individual, State & Local tax, R&D Tax Credit, as well as International and Private Client services.

Withum's brand is a reflection of our people, our culture and our strength. Withum has become synonymous with teamwork and client service excellence. The cornerstone of our success can truly be accredited to the dedicated professionals who work here every day, easy to work with a sense of purpose and caring for their co-workers and whose mission is to help our clients grow and thrive. But our commitment goes beyond our clients as we continue to live the Withum Way, promoting personal and professional growth for all team members, clients, and surrounding communities.

How you will spend your time:

• Preparation/Review of Complex form 1065-Partnership returns for financial service or both Real estate and operating partnership including 1120-C and 1120-S federal & state jurisdictions returns.
• Detail review of simple and moderate returns of partnership, corporation and S-Corporation both federal and state jurisdiction.
• Guarantee payments – Concept and applications on the tax returns.
• Identify potential adjustments due to tax law changes and reflect on workpapers and returns.
• Assist staff in addressing the tax issues with proposed solutions.
• Working level experience of international returns along with review capabilities.
• Train and mentor new joiners on tax concept and technology.
• Share the detailed review feedback with staff along with resolutions to tackle those.
• Ability to manage the kickoff calls independently or with little support from AM's and Managers.
• Ability to connect with US counterparts and keep track on the budget assigned for each task.
• Knowledge of efile validation and diagnostics of returns and connect Go support for efile diagnostics clearing.
• Ability to identify and review of potentials book to tax (Sch M-1) adjustments.
• Ability to deep dive into the depreciation and gain/loss.
• Ability to analyze financial statements and seek relevant details.
• Advance level tax technical knowledge on state tax returns, applications, nexus and filing requirements.
• Clear understanding of partners tax capital accounts.
• Ability to perform proper self-review of complex work before moving the task for review.
• Document open items and share updates with reviewer and visa versa in completing tax returns within set deadlines.
• Ability to work/review on multiple projects simultaneously and correspondence with aligned reviewer on status.
• Knowledge of efile validation and diagnostics of returns and connect Go support for efile diagnostics clearing.
• Hands on experience on tools and applications.
• Work towards tax technical skills enhancement by working on secondary and cross skills set and able to drive this with staff and help them to grow.

Requirements:

• Minimum 3+ years of post-qualification hands-on experience with U.S. accounting firm.
• Working towards Chartered Accountancy is preferred.
• Experience and knowledge of U.S. Tax Code is required.
• Strong command of the English Language, both written and verbal communication.
• Strong commitment to an entrepreneurial work ethic.
• Competently analyzes and prioritizes information to make appropriate recommendations; and
• Ability to manage multiple engagements simultaneously and communicate as a team with the Domestic (US) engagement teams.

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