Senior Tax Accountant - Finance (Remote Work Eligible) at Edward D. Jones in St. Louis, Missouri

Job Description:

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 14,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who enhances the team's ability to build deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis and Tempe provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. Edward Jones currently has more branch offices than any other financial services firm, and we continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.

Senior Tax Accountant: Income Tax / Partnership Accounting

We are looking for a Senior Accountant to join our Tax, Capital and Asset Management Team within Income Tax.  This role is responsible for:

• Ensuring the firm's tax compliance with all taxing jurisdictions, including U.S. federal, state and Canada, for its domestic and Canadian partnerships and C-corporations. 


• Evaluating tax technical developments and communicating impact


• Collaborating with third party service providers


• Communicating with partners on various technical issues


• Assisting with special projects on an as needed basis

The Senior Accountant will help lead portions of the work above.  This position will require knowledge of U.S. federal and state tax principles; strong organizational and research skills; effective collaboration and communication; and efficient execution. 

• Experience executing on complex projects


• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams


• Experience evaluating tax technical issues and developments; ability to determine and communicate how they impact the firm and its partners


• Preferred prior experience with multistate incoming taxation


• Strong organizational skills


• Strong verbal and written communication skills


• Ability to learn multiple complex topics and work in a fast-paced and changing environment


• Ability to engage and inspire others

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of experience


• Bachelor's degree or higher in Accountancy


• Public accounting experience is strongly preferred


• CPA required

Salary:

$80,000.00

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