Senior Corporate Tax Accountant

Tax Accountant - Corporate Tax
Come Join Us! We offer:

• Paid training
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Dynamic, challenging, and motivating work environment
• Clear career path and opportunities for growth
• VERY competitive pay and compensation package
• Outstanding employee retention rate
• True teamwork environment
• High visibility and interaction with senior management
• Valuable 401k, available after just 1 year
• Enjoy an easy commute to our prime location in Clearwater's Highpoint/ICOT/Gateway area conveniently accessible from anywhere

Summary:
The Corporate Tax Accountant applies principles of accounting to prepare federal and state Corporate Tax returns. They adjust and examine financial statements and prepare tax workpapers for tax preparation.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions.
• Collects appropriate data and prepares federal, state, and local reports and tax returns.
• Ability to refine knowledge to calculate depreciation on a continuous basis and maintain fixed asset schedules throughout year and at year end.
• Distributes expenditures, encumbrances, receipts, and receivables according to schedules.
• Performs research on tax matters and renders opinions based on written code and regulations. Participation in Tax Planning recognizing potential risks
• Performs statistical analyses to determine trends, estimates, and significant changes, and writes narrative reports explaining findings.
• Oversee and track all company taxes including Federal Corporate, State Corporate, Sales, Tangible, Premium, Excise and all other taxes
• Analyzes financial information detailing assets, liabilities, and capital, and prepares balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position for other managers
• Ability to read legal documents and/or closing documents and to report them correctly for tax purposes
• Monitors compliance with tax code and with company procedures
• Reviews, investigates, and corrects errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports
• Installs, modifies, documents, and coordinates implementation of accounting systems and accounting control procedures
• Designs and maintains pro formas for current and proposed contracts to determine pricing and profitability
• Understanding of amortization and goodwill as it relates to tax and financial statements
• Preparing Accounting Tax workpapers and learning tax software to assist with the completion of tax returns

Other Responsibilities:

• Adheres to the policies and procedures of the Community Health Solutions and the Premier Family of Companies
• Maintains strict confidentiality of client, company and personnel information
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to the mission and values of the organization
• Adheres to company attendance standards
• Performs other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:None
Competencies:

• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Detail oriented
• Ability to multi-task and work independently

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of accounting experience.
• Corporate tax
• Ultra-Tax Software Experience preferred.
• Experience performing double-entry accounting is preferred including experience with Balance Sheets and P&Ls, journal entries and financial statements

Education and/or Experience:

• A Bachelors Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business is strongly preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
None
Computer Skills:
Proficiency using software programs such as MS Word, ACCESS, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. Experience in Quick Books and other tax programs are a plus.
Environmental Factors/Physical Demands:
Work is performed in an office environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have the ability to maintain active customer and employee communication; access, input and retrieve information from the computer system; enter alpha-numeric data into a computerized system often while listening on the telephone. May be subject to repetitive motion such as typing, data entry and vision to monitor. May be subject to bending, reaching, kneeling, stooping, and lifting to thirty (30) pounds.
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