Tax Supervisor

Prepare every kind of return. Grow into the firm's next reviewer.

Good Works Talent is partnering with a well-respected small CPA firm in Wichita to recruit an experienced tax accountant ahead of the coming tax season.

The firm serves small to mid-sized businesses and the owners behind them, with real estate as a common niche. Clients range from rental property owners to developers, realtors and builders, plus individual clients whose returns carry a lot of K-1 and investment activity.

You'll prepare returns for individuals, partnerships, S corps, C corps and trusts, often for the same client family. When a client's books need work before the return, you'll be the one who gets in and reconciles them.

You'll work directly with the firm's two owners in an office of 4 to 6 people. The role starts with strong preparation and grows into mentoring and review as trust builds.

What You'll Accomplish

• Prepare accurate returns across every entity type. In your first 60 to 90 days, you'll learn the firm's clients, CCH workflow and work-paper standards while taking on federal and state returns. By the end of your first busy season, the owners should be able to hand you any client file and trust it will come back complete and ready for review.
• Get the books right before the return. Some clients arrive clean. Others need month-end, quarter-end or year-end cleanup before prep can start. You'll reconcile accounts, resolve discrepancies and document adjustments so every return rests on solid numbers.
• Own your engagements. You'll manage information requests, quarterly estimates, extensions, projections and filing deadlines. You'll raise risks and open items early, so the owners never have to chase the status of your work.
• Build trust with clients. You'll become a dependable contact for business owners and high-net-worth individuals. You'll explain tax matters in plain language and support their annual planning and projections.
• Help the people around you. During busy season, you'll be the colleague junior and seasonal staff turn to with questions. Within your first year, you'll grow into reviewing their work as you learn the firm's standards.

Why This Could Be the Right Next Move

At a firm this size, nobody gets siloed. You'll see the full picture of a client's tax life, from the books to the return to next year's plan. You'll work alongside the owners every day. Your work will be visible, and so will your growth from preparer to mentor to reviewer.

The firm welcomes CPA-eligible candidates. If you're still working through the exams, you're welcome to apply, and for the right career-driven person the firm is open to discussing a CPA completion bonus.

What Will Make You Successful

• You'll bring 3 to 5 years of tax experience in public accounting, with hands-on preparation of business and individual returns and the work-papers behind them.
• Experience reviewing or guiding less-experienced staff is a plus.
• You're a licensed CPA, or CPA-eligible and making progress toward licensure. A bachelor's degree in accounting is required. A master's is a plus.
• You know CCH ProSystem fx and Engagement, or you'll learn them fast, and you're comfortable working with data in Excel.
• Real estate or multi-state experience would be valuable.
• Most of all, you take ownership. When a file lands on your desk, you see it through and care that the client and the owners are both happy at the end.

The Environment

This position is based in Wichita and is primarily in office. The firm is fully cloud-based with VoIP phones and home workstations, so working from home when you need to is easy. In-office time matters most in your early years while you build relationships with the owners, colleagues and clients. Flexibility can grow as trust grows.

Hours are 40 a week outside busy season, with options such as 4 nine-hour days and a half-day Friday. Busy season runs about 50-55 hours a week, with a planning goal of less overtime hours a year than most firms.

It's a quiet, professional office. The owners have families and value getting great work done and getting home on time. It suits someone who prefers a focused workplace over a busy social calendar.

Interested? Show Us the Work You've Done.

We're interested in the work behind your résumé. Tell us about a complex return you owned, a client whose books you untangled before filing, or a time you helped a newer colleague work through a problem.

Those stories tell us more about your fit than a keyword match.