USA Tax Manager - Tax Preparer | Form 1040 High Income Clients | Work Remote

7 Years + progressive USA tax prep and tax prep process experience required. Reviewer experience is welcome. Previous manager experience is required, minimum 2 years. Individual focused high income tax prep, minimum of 3 years.

Highly technical reviewer with limited people management experience will be considered for excellent candidates explaining why they are still a fit via written letter.

Welcome! Gillingham CPA is a small team with exciting clients with a supportive and friendly work environment.

Ability / interest to learn new concepts, process, taxation, and procedure is critical to the role.

This is a managerial level position in knowledge, tax prep ability, and team support.

Gillingham CPA has niche equity compensation clients in which a capable and interested candidate will need to be trained in.

Year 1 time breakdown will vary by candidate, but could look like:

50% reviewer capacity (tax and projection work)

30% prep capacity (learning)

20% ad-hoc with (10% of which in billing or similar support role year 1 to 3 depending)

The tax firm is highly specialized and not all previous skills are transferable. That is ok. It is possible to have previous manager experience or more senior titles, yet, still fill this role.

This is a fully remote role that starts at 5 AM sharp Monday through Friday, Manila time zone.

Critical:

• 7 years + USA direct taxation experience with CPA firm or equivalent (BPO)
• Complete and timely well written responsiveness to all correspondence
• Submission of information requests contained within the posting

Strong written and spoken English is required.

Please be sure to include in your submission the cumulative *months of experience in the following areas:

• We use months as an experience gauge. For example for one year you could be preparing business returns 8.3% and preparing individual returns the rest of the time. In such a case you would report 1 month of business tax experience and 11 months of individual preparation experience.
• Individual tax prep, including Schedule C businesses
• High income individual tax prep (households > $250K)
• Tax planning (please detail)
• Tax advisory (please detail)
• Tax return review (please detail)
• C-Corp, S-Corp, and Multi-member LLC / partnership prep
• Quickbooks online or similar bookkeeping experience
• Other accounting experience

An exclusive secure full time office is required. Minimum computer and internet speed will be required. Equipment will be purchased and owned by the company if needed. Local background check and references are required.

Due to time zone differences we are looking for an excellent learner that enjoys 90% of the time learning and working independently.

Maternity leave is half pay, 1 month for fathers and 2 months for mothers. Pay is fixed to the US dollar and does not adjust with the exchange rate.

Working schedule is Manila Time Zone: 5 AM to 2 PM, Monday through Friday

(8 working hours and 1 hour unpaid break)

(Calls with USA first thing in the morning)

Reviews of performance and any added time flexibility at 30 days (trial period), 3 months, 6 months, 1 year.

Experience:

• USA tax preparation required - 7 years minimum
• Accounting / bookkeeping is a plus

Benefits:

• Excellent pay
• Fully remote and friendly work environment (work from home)
• Career advancement and supportive learning environment
• 6 weeks paid time off equivalency (30 working days with a combination of paid time off, sick, and floating holiday)

• Pursuing a long-term public accounting career (CPA / EA oriented or satisfied with a long term senior tax role that offers professional growth)
• Tax return review experience
• Accounting knowledge that applies to business tax returns
• Year-end close and adjusting entry experience
• Planning and advisory work experience
• Ability to review highly technical tax returns is a big plus
• QuickBooks online and/or Lacerte experience

Questions:

Please let us know about your relevant work experience and detail the percentage breakdown of duties as was noted earlier in the posting.

***Important*** Please include your relevant experience in terms of total months as requested earlier in the post.

Any work from home experience?

Please describe your work environment.

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Thank you! Please note that due to the volume of applicants that not all applications may receive a response. We appreciate your time and effort.