Tax Associate, Client Tax Services & Solutions - Justworks｜Meet.jobs

Who You Are

Do you love working with startups and SMBs? Do you enjoy learning new areas of tax law? This is your opportunity to join an innovative and growing team within Justworks’ Payment and Tax Unit. This role will explore and enable outstanding customer tax service delivery across the full range of tax market offerings that help SMBs on Justworks’ platform to take advantage of federal, state and local tax programs, improve compliance and create efficiency thereby creating value and helping their growth.

The Tax Associate of Client Tax Services and Solutions has a background in tax compliance or tax consulting for one or more business entities, including C-corps, S-Corps, LLCs, partnerships, and 501(c)(3)s.

Your focus in this role will be to support our existing tax related services and contribute to growing our service offerings. Working with internal stakeholders and external customers, you will help to shape the services and solutions.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Assist with the calculations, reviews, or audits of various tax credits submitted by customers or their accountants.
• Compile reconciliation reports for customers, detailing total credits issued, date issued, and credits pending.
• Support the team in performing internal reconciliations of balances due to and due from customers. Work cross-functionally with teams to communicate outstanding balances due from customers.
• Work with our internal design and product teams to test new features and provide usability and compliance feedback from an accountant’s perspective.
• Leverage your tax expertise to assist with projects that provide thought leadership and insights into general industry needs and business opportunities.
• Assist with the compilation of executive reports that communicate insights and present findings on market behavior and industry trends as well as business cases including competitive landscape and developments trends.
• Help to promote and explain the benefits of the new offerings to internal teams and customers and be an integral part of executing go-to-market strategies.
• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of strong standard operating procedures around our tax service offerings.
• Work with accountant partner firms and our marketing team to develop thought-leadership content and networking opportunities.
• Assist with complex escalated issues customers may have regarding taxes and Justworks products, which may include communicating directly with customers via email or conference calls.
• Help drive tax and accounting customer awareness and education, and perform other related responsibilities based on department and/or organizational needs.
• Assist with responses to complex questions and requests from various teams at Justworks (including Customer Success), helping build stronger internal stakeholder relationships.
• Acquire and maintain knowledge of the Justworks payroll platform and educate team members.
• Assist in other special projects as assigned.

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Tax Associate, Client Tax Services and Solutions, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:

• Collaborative - building partnerships and working together with others to meet shared objectives.
• Detail-oriented - exercises extreme attention to detail; is thorough, accurate, organized, and productive and seeks to understand both the cause and effect of a situation.
• Nimble learning - actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Adaptability - the ability to adjust your approach or actions in response to changes in your external environment.
• Creative thinking - discovering new opportunities and solutions for problems by looking beyond current practices and using innovative thinking.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

• Minimum 1-2 years of experience at a Big 4 accounting firm providing tax consulting or tax compliance services in any of the following areas: income taxes, tax provisions, fixed assets, tax credits and incentives, state and local taxes, or mergers & acquisitions. No payroll tax experience required.

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $86,000.00 to $94,600.00 per year.

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Justworks focuses on Internet, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Payments, and Human Resources. Their company has offices in New York City and New York. They have a large team that's between 201-500 employees. To date, Justworks has raised $143M of funding; their latest round was closed on January 2020.

You can view their website at http://www.justworks.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.