Tax Senior

Tax Senior role at Deloitte focusing on assisting companies with federal, state, and local tax structures, overseeing tax consulting projects, researching tax issues, and performing tax planning and compliance for diverse industries. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation or related field and eighteen months of experience in tax planning, return preparation, and utilizing tax software and research tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assist companies with federal, state and local, and international tax structures and align the tax function with business objectives.
  2. Under the supervision of Tax Managers, oversee tax consulting projects for clients in diverse industries.
  3. Research and analyze a wide range of tax issues encountered on engagements.
  4. Assume tax-planning responsibilities for our federal clients and assist with the supervision of assignments.
  5. Assist with tax planning opportunity identification, implementing tax planning projects, providing tax research and analysis for clients in diverse industries, and keep up-to-date on current tax practices and technical issues.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation or related field
  • Eighteen months of experience as Tax Senior or related occupation
  • Experience providing tax planning services
  • Experience preparing and reviewing client work papers and tax returns
  • Experience preparing and reviewing federal and state income tax returns, Schedule K-1s, book-to-tax reconciliations and partner equity and tax allocations for hedge funds, private equity funds, and funds of funds
  • Experience utilizing tax software, including GoSystem
  • Experience utilizing tax research tools, including CCH
  • Experience preparing quarterly estimated tax payments
  • Experience preparing schedules for federal and state income tax returns and state franchise tax
  • Experience conducting tax testing and adjustments on wash sales, straddles, constructive sales, boxed position, short sales, swaps, Section 1256, Section 988, UBTI, and dividends testing
  • Experience preparing waterfall calculation for private equity funds
  • Experience preparing and reviewing US-based reporting of foreign operations, including Forms 5471, 8865, 926, 8621, 8858, FATCA filings, and information reporting forms, including Form 1042/1042S, and Form 1099 (series)
  • Experience identifying reportable transactions and filing the appropriate Form 8886 disclosures for applicable thresholds
  • Mentoring and coaching junior team members

What the JD emphasized

  • tax planning services
  • preparing and reviewing client work papers and tax returns
  • preparing and reviewing federal and state income tax returns
  • utilizing tax software
  • utilizing tax research tools