We are seeking a Senior Tax Accountant to manage, develop, and administer a portfolio of clients, taking full ownership of allocated jobs and managing your workflow. This involves maintaining an appropriate level of service to clients and producing a high standard of work. You will also be responsible for delegating and reviewing work undertaken by junior team members.
Key Responsibilities
- Meet productivity and client budgets, and provide value-added services to clients
- Perform all compliance and value add work
- Review financial accounts, FBT and income tax returns, business activity statements, instalment activity statements and any other work performed by Intermediates, Graduates, Co-Operative Students and Cadets
- Prepare and review complex individual, company, trust, and Partnership tax returns
- Prepare and review workpapers, analyse client data and transactions and set up accounts
- Provide feedback, coaching and technical support to any BPCA team member working on clients
- Provide technical support and guidance to an allocated team of Intermediates and Graduates
- Identify and develop existing and potential business opportunities within client base
- Report to the Manager on the performance of team members and status of client obligations and issues
- Assist with potential and new client opportunities or initiatives such as attending client meetings, preparation of advice and presentations
- Administrative Compliance
- Other duties as required by the firm such as interviewing clients, attendance at training, marketing, acting as a buddy/mentor to a new member of staff, special projects, etc.
Key Skills and Experience
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Business Services environment in a Chartered/CPA accounting practice
- Degree qualified and nearly/fully qualified as a CA / CPA
- Technically proficient and up to date with developments in taxation law and accounting standards, systems and processes
- Advanced working knowledge of GST, Business Activity Statements and Instalment Activity Statements
- Detailed knowledge of tax office correspondence and procedures
- Thorough understanding of company secretarial matters
- Advanced understanding of the Corporations Act, accounting standards, tax legislation
- Ability to review the work of junior members of staff and identify any issues and opportunities for discussion
- Previous experience working with and developing good relationships with clients.
- Excellent time management skills and meeting deadlines for a large group of clients
- Ability to mentor, coach, motivate and manage junior members of staff
- Present professionally and possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills Prior experience working with Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel.