Senior Tax Accountant (SW0008)

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.