Tax Operations Manager – International Individual Tax Preparation

Fully Remote, Work from Home

25-30 hours a week

$45,000 to $60,000 base salary, plus profit-based flexible compensation

Preferred skills that aren’t required

• German language
• Experience with ATX
• Experience with Monday.com

Are you an experienced tax manager ready to take on new challenges in international Tax Preparation?

You might be the ideal candidate if you:

• Read our list of core values and thought “that’s the environment I want to work in!”
• Have an active CPA license and 5+ years of Tax Preparation experience and you’re experienced in international Tax Preparation.
• Have excellent data analysis and complex project management experience and are great with Excel.
• Have experience managing and leading a team and providing feedback to staff
• Have excellent attention to detail, are passionate about efficient processes, and really love making sure things are running smoothly on a daily basis
• Really enjoy using technology to make your work easier. We’re a paperless firm and we use a number of cloud-based tools to manage our work.

Position Details:

Ensuring operations are running like a well-oiled machine: We have a few hundred clients and unique timelines due to the international nature of our Tax Preparation. Ensuring adherence to a number of deadlines, managing client requests, and understanding project timelines and levels of completion and is quite a project management puzzle.

Recommending and implementing process improvements: We are incredibly process driven and utilize a lot of technology to achieve this. This role will ensure that processes are running as efficiently as possible and, where they could be better, will recommend, implement, and document improvements.

Supporting staff in learning and career development: We are incredibly committed to learning and development and have a defined path for career progression for tax preparers. This role will involve delegating incoming work to the appropriate level of Tax Preparation staff, reviewing for quality assurance, and providing feedback. It will also involve analyzing time entries, as well as setting and supporting goals for technical and leadership development.

International Individual Tax Preparation: This is primarily an operations and management role. However, this may require some Tax Preparation, particularly at busy times of the year.

Delivering excellent customer service: We have incredibly lovely clients, and we really strive to help them sleep better at night knowing their taxes are in safe hands. We do this by having excellent systems that make sure nothing falls through the cracks and by caring a lot about people.

What we offer:

• Fully remote part-time job with flexibility within our core hours of 9am to 6pm M-F. We have a daily huddle at 9:30am est., Monday – Thursday. All employees are expected to participate in the huddles and to participate in an office setting.
• A commitment to ongoing training and development
• A great team collaborating in a values-driven atmosphere where everyone is able to make an impact
• Lovely clients with a wide variety of interesting and unique situations
• The opportunity to be a part of a quickly growing company with exciting prospects and plans to continue growing over the next years.
• Steady, year-round tax work instead of busy seasons. Because we work with expats we work to different deadlines and our work is spread throughout the year. Our busiest time is November up to December 15th.
• 7 Paid holidays (plus 2 weeks off in December!) and time off to support your work life balance.
• An employee assistance program

Who are we:

Xpatax Solutions, LLC. is a boutique international tax firm specializing in US taxes for Americans living in Germany. Since founding the company in 2017 we’ve experienced significant growth each year and expect that to continue. As a result, we grow our team every year. We have a unique approach to preparing taxes and a big focus on learning, training and development. We don’t require international tax experience as long as you’re confident preparing individual US returns and excited about learning new things.

We are a values driven company and we’re passionate about our core values. These are:

Make a difference: We lead with kindness, compassion and empathy. We help our clients sleep better at night knowing their US taxes are in good hands. We do this by building trust and valuing transparency. We are in a unique position to make a difference in each other’s lives by supporting a work-life balance so that this job sustains us without consuming us.

Seek out solutions: We don’t just file tax returns, we solve tax puzzles. We are independent thinkers that find answers. We carry our own bags. If we don’t know the answer, we seek it out. This allows us to serve our clients by finding solutions, even for complex issues.

Work together like a well-oiled machine: We value teamwork and efficient processes. We help each other out and we get our work done as efficiently as possible. We make things as easy as possible for our clients and ourselves. This allows us to get our work done and get on with our lives.

Work with pride: We value excellency and deliver the best. We brag about our wins and we are proud of the work we deliver. We strive for our clients being ecstatic about our work and their experience with us.

Passion for learning: Our thirst for learning new things is insatiable. We’re excited to tackle new challenges and take in new information. Our brains are already brimming over with new facts and still, we’re always collecting more. We love putting this new knowledge to use to provide even better solutions for our clients.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $45,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year

Expected hours: 25 – 35 per week

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Caregiver leave
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• On-the-job training
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program

Experience level:

• 5 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Year round work

Application Question(s):

• Do you speak any other languages? What is is your level of proficiency?
• Do you have experience managing/leading a team? If so, how many years and the number of employees you have managed?

Experience:

• US tax filing: 5 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• CPA license (Required)

Work Location: Remote