10-15 years of public accounting experience with increasing responsibility and complexity in engagements.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in accounting.
Valid CPA license required.
At least 40 hours of continuing professional education annually to keep skills current.
Proven ability to generate new business.
Responsibilities
Provide comprehensive accounting, auditing, tax, and advisory services to clients.
Review and sign off on tax returns.
Manage recruitment, training, and retention of tax staff.
Conduct interviews and make hiring decisions for tax staff positions.
Develop and update training programs for professional staff.
Cultivate new client relationships and expand existing services for current clients.
Monitor and support quality control and compliance within the firm.
Benefits
Professional development seminars and continuing education support.
Access to advanced accounting and tax software tools.
Involvement in practice development initiatives.
Opportunities for leadership within a collaborative work environment.
Full Job Description
Provide the Firm's full range of services on a fee basis to designated clients, in a manner consistent with the best interest of the specific client and the Firm's philosophy. Partners develop, mentor and train staff, and make associations to develop new business for the Firm.
Essential Functions
Responsible for all services rendered to clients in the functional areas of accounting, auditing, taxes, or advisory services.
Reviews and signs off on tax returns.
Involved with the administration of the personnel function as it relates to acquisition, training, retention, and utilization of tax staff. Recruits or assigns individualto recruit students at selected colleges and universities.
Interviews and oversees extending initial offers of employment to potential tax staff employees. Reviews and evaluates accounting staff personnel for purposes of promotion and salary adjustment. Releases employees on the tax staff who are not to be retained.
Maintains required technical competence through professional literature, financial publications, and attendance at professional development seminars.
Develops new business through expanding services rendered to existing clients, pursuing contact with prospective clients, and maintaining contacts with bankers, attorneys, investment bankers, and others.
Involved in establishing an annual Training Program for the professional staff and develops specific programs for various levels of the accounting staff.
Monitors those training programs established and administered by the Management
Consulting Services and Tax Departments for their respective professional staffs.
Emphasizes continuity in the assigning of accounting staff to specific assignments.
Counsels with the accounting staff on their grievances, professional development, and progress with the firm.
Involved with updating the Firm's Quality Control Document.
Nonessential Functions
Participates in the Firm's practice development efforts.
Promotes the most efficient operations of the Firm and supports compliance guidelines in managing others.
Participates on various committees; offers opinions and insight to better improve the Firm's operation and profitability.
Other duties as assigned by the Managing Partner.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Demonstrates knowledge of tax laws, regulations, in both audit and tax.
Proficiency in use of computer, tax research, and financials, and tax
software programs.
Proficiency in use of computers, computer accounting software, and tax software
programs.
Demonstrates ability to bring in new business to a CPA Firm.
Ability to organize work and projects, prioritize and meet deadlines, and to complete
work in an efficient and accurate manner.
Ability to reason and effectively multi-task.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Responsible for the development, coaching and training of all tax employees.
Must be familiar with the qualifications of all tax staff members for the development and instruction of their training needs.
Participates in reviews, compensation and evaluations of accounting professionals.
Minimum Qualifications
Generally, requires ten (10) to fifteen (15) years of experience in public accounting, demonstrating a proven progression in complexity, scope, and number of engagements managed.
Bachelor's degree in accounting, or Master's degree in accounting.
Minimum of forty (40) hours of continuing professional education is required each year to maintain and develop technical and business skills.
A current and valid CPA's license is required.
About Singer Lewak
SingerLewak is a full-service accounting firm with offices in California, Colorado, and Washington. They offer tax, audit, and consulting services to a variety of industries, including entertainment, real estate, and technology. The firm was founded in 1959 and has been recognized as a Best Place to Work by the Los Angeles Business Journal and Accounting Today.
