Staff Accountant
Navolio & Tallman LLP celebrates camaraderie, teamwork, flexibility, and excellence and provides unlimited opportunities for individualized growth and development. Our mission is to be our clients’ most trusted business advisor by providing outstanding client service, and that starts with cultivating a well-rounded team of high-caliber professionals, each leveraging his or her unique talents and strengths to complement other members of the team and to elevate the team as a whole. It is this philosophy, rooted in our understanding that the firm can only succeed if our people succeed, that has garnered us the recognition by Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Best Accounting Firms to Work For in the U.S.
We are a Walnut Creek-based CPA practice looking for entry-level public accountants with 0-2 years of tax and/or audit experience who understand the importance of professionalism, technical excellence, and commitment to the highest industry standards. Our partners and managers have many years of experience at the national, regional and local firm levels. We offer a comprehensive range of audit, accounting, taxation, advisory, and compliance services for a wide variety of businesses and their owners and serve a broad spectrum of securities funds, private-equity and venture capital firms, real estate firms, private foundations, and high-net-worth and ultra high-net-worth individuals.
Work Environment:
- Dynamic, stimulating, and exciting with constant interaction
- Fast-paced and requires a high degree of urgency in completing tasks and assignments
- Rewarding and challenging with varied work activities and exposure to different clients and services
- Embraces and encourages ongoing change and improvement and empowers staff at all levels to provide feedback and to personally make changes
- Provides opportunities to work with concepts and ideas as well as technical tasks such as investigation, analysis, and problem solving
Position Responsibilities:
- Prepare individual, fiduciary, partnership, not-for-profit, and corporate income tax returns under the direction and constructive feedback of supervisors
- Prepare tax projections to assist clients in minimizing taxes and determining quarterly estimated tax payments
- Research tax and accounting issues and effectively communicate the analysis and conclusion
- Perform audit, review, and compilation procedures and prepare financial statements with a general understanding of the underlying audit concepts
- Develop effective relationships with colleagues and clients through professionalism, effective communication, and follow-through
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Accounting or Taxation
- Meets the 150 semester unit requirement for CPA licensure by current or grandfathered standards as applicable; CPA license a plus
- Availability to work full-time
- Strong academic credentials (minimum 3.3 GPA)
- Ability to set and work with goals, objectives, and deadlines
- Exhibits flexibility in a fast-paced work environment by juggling and prioritizing multiple projects, responsibilities, and deadlines and completing projects with urgency
Talent Requirements:
We offer multiple paths to success and are looking for diverse talents to cultivate long-term careers in public accounting with us. We would love to hear from you if either of these profiles describes you (one is not better than the other):
TALENT PROFILE #1
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, competitive, and personally-demanding environment
- Possesses a strong desire to persuade, influence, and motivate others
- Prefers general, broad direction rather than close or controlled supervision
- Needs to have the ability to make decisions and authority and control over events and situations
- Prefers working with concepts and ideas over technical tasks
- Prefers to establish your own performance goals and work guidelines
- Seeks freedom, independence, and discretion in scheduling your own time
TALENT PROFILE #2
- Prefers a non-competitive work environment with particular emphasis on team or group performance
- Seeks affiliation, to be part of a group, and to identify with a group
- Enjoys working on tasks that require exactness, precision, and accuracy with detail
- Prefers to work on structured, well-defined tasks and activities under explicit rules and work guidelines
- Prefers working with concepts and ideas over technical tasks
- Wants to be involved in decisions and important events, but prefers to avoid making decisions which involve ambiguity or possible risk
- Possesses a strong desire to persuade, influence, and motivate others