Summer/Fall 2024 Tax Technical Associate - Baker Tilly US, LLP

Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) is a leading advisory CPA firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers – New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. Baker Tilly is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 145 territories, with 41,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $4.7 billion. 

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Baker Tilly is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local law. 

Are you looking for an opportunity to apply and further develop your deep technical tax skills?

Are you interested in coming alongside client focused tax colleagues, supporting their federal tax research, modeling, and analysis needs?

Join Baker Tilly (BT) with a technical tax career path!

BT has opportunities for candidates at various entry levels, to pursue a technical tax career path, serving industry team colleagues and firm clients.   This is a great opportunity to be a valued advisor, supporting our sophisticated and proactive federal tax practice. You will work side-by-side with local industry team client facing tax colleagues, helping to apply tax law to industry specific client fact patterns, yielding client valued results.  Both your work and your professional development will be supported by fellow industry team tax technicians and by BT firm level specialty tax teams.   Additionally, you will have the opportunity to utilize your knowledge and experience to help teach talented tax staff on new tax legislation, administrative pronouncements and judicial rulings, often with a specific industry applications. 

If you are invigorated by these exciting challenges, then this could be the right opportunity for you! As one of the fastest growing firms in the nation, BT has the ability to offer you an upward career trajectory, flexibility in how and where you get your work done and meaningful relationships with teammates and leadership who truly care about you and your development.

You’ll enjoy this role if:

• You are looking for an opportunity to expand your career as a Federal tax specialist
• You like being part of a team where experienced tax teammates seek your counsel and support on specific tax matters
• You are a diligent reader and creative thinker, who craves opportunities to explore the intersections of client facts and Federal tax law.
• You can see yourself as a trusted tax advisor, working face-to-face with teammates and clients to find creative solutions to complex tax challenges
• You want to work for a leading CPA advisory firm who serves their clients with their clients’ and employees’ best interests in mind and are transparent in their decisions
• You value your development and want to work for a firm that provides you the autonomy to own your schedule and career through programs (ask us about My Time Off, My Development and Dress for Your Day!)
• You want to contribute to your engagement team’s professional growth and enhance your own skills to build a career with opportunities now, for tomorrow

What you will do:

• Independently and continually monitor developments in tax law, frequently develop, and share your own opinions and ideas (“thought leadership”) on how we or our clients should react
• Do extensive tax research on issues when asked, finding and communicating answers to sophisticated and complex tax issues.
• Mature into topical focused areas of deeper knowledge.
• Work with team members in all WI offices (occasionally in-person) who will source projects.
• Provide colleagues with tax file work papers supporting answers to technical issues addressed.
• Write & review technical tax memos and client letters
• Tax impact modeling and Excel template development
• Maintain a solid understanding of Firm tax policies and procedures.
• Deliver best-in-class customer service to internal and external clients.
• Speak publicly and teach internally at intermediate to advanced levels
• Limited tax compliance work may be done, depending on the candidate and experience
  • For less experienced candidates, strategic tax compliance may be developmental.
  • Over time, any strategic compliance work assigned should be reduced.
  • Research and technical tax work should be a scheduling priority.
  • Some candidates may benefit from maintaining ownership of some client relationships.
• Invest in your professional development individually and through participation in firm wide learning and development programs.
• Enjoy friendships, social activities and team outings that encourage a work-life balance

Successful candidates will have:

• Have a Master Degree in Taxation and/or Law Degree, and Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting is desirable
• Have CPA or JD
• Regularly cite various tax Code sections, regulations, and rulings, by number or name
• Be a self-starter
• Be a diligent reader of daily tax developments
• Have strong verbal and writing communication skills
• Frequently exhibit intellectual curiosity
• Readily connect with experienced tax colleagues to brainstorm and calibrate
• Have an ability to teach
• Have strong familiarity with tax research tools (content, functionality, navigation, etc.)
• Demonstrate completeness in research and problem solving, able to see the “big picture” and to identify logically associated ancillary issues
• Display appropriate ethical knowledge and commitment, and exhibit a sense of urgency and commitment to quality and the timely completion of projects