Senior Accountant - San Jose
About The Position
SingerLewak is a Top 100 accounting and consulting firm primarily operating in the western region. Serving clients since 1959, SingerLewak has developed a reputation for excellence and expertise in the accounting and management consulting industry. Providing the services of a large firm with a blended environment of practices, services and industry specializations, SingerLewak continues to demonstrate renowned industry leadership year-over-year. The firm takes pride in client service and professional and personal advancement, as demonstrated by our SL forward program which promotes a culture of learning and growth through targeted development and leadership programs and SL Cares, together with a continual focus on client service and technological evolution.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree (or foreign equivalent) in Accounting, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
- 2 years of work experience in job offered or related.
- Experience in preparing individual tax returns for clients.
- Experience filing corporate tax returns for LLC, S-Corporation, C-Corporation, and Nonprofits.
- Experience in preparing expats’ foreign tax credits and forms, including 2555, 1116, FBAR, 5471.
- Bookkeeping.
- Knowledge in preparing asset, liability, and capital account entries.
- Knowledge of analysis of annual and quarterly financial statements.
- Experience in financial planning.
- Experience with conducting IRS audit support.
- Experience in researching tax laws and regulations.
- Experience in advising clients on complex tax matters.
Responsibilities
- Prepare 754 step up depreciation calculations.
- Calculating book, Fed and state differences on M1 M3 adjustment.
- Prepare international reporting forms such as 5471, high tax election and Section 962 election.
- Prepared and reviewed the 990 preparations.
- Business development with the potential new client.
- Participates in planning and analysis for the tax clients.
- Directs and instructs assistants, where applicable, in work to be performed and reviewed for 1099 filing.
- Individual tax meeting with clients.
- Supervising and assisting the intern and staff level accountants.
- Prepare partnership, S-corp, C-corp and individual tax returns.
- Book adjustments.
- Suggest and improve the working procedure changes to supervisor, manager, or Partner and discuss the team work efficiency.
- Prepares routine correspondence to client for approval and signature of a Partner, writes comments for management letters.
- Prepare the UBIA assets schedule and the depreciation schedule.
- Proactively takes ownership of projects, seeing them through to ultimate completion & delivery to client.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
