Jobs at Ascend (ascendtogether.com)

Lead and expand a district audit practice by managing multiple engagements, overseeing planning through completion, and ensuring audit quality. Develop people, delegate effectively, monitor deadlines, budgets, staffing and risks, and improve engagement systems, workflows and documentation. Serve as a client and team coordination point, perform final technical reviews, resolve bottlenecks, and build a scalable delivery model. The role requires a CPA license and substantial public accounting audit management experience.

Prepare and review federal, state, and local tax returns for individuals, corporations, S-corporations, partnerships, trusts, and estates. Resolve technical issues, correct trial balances, document calculations, communicate directly with clients, coordinate with partners, and mentor junior staff. The role requires accurate, efficient work under busy-season deadlines, strong knowledge of tax codes, independent judgment, and ongoing professional development.

Lead and grow BiggsKofford’s Real Estate & Construction tax practice in Colorado. Responsibilities include managing significant client relationships, providing proactive tax planning and strategic advice, leading complex tax engagements, mentoring staff, developing new business and referral relationships, expanding client accounts, and contributing to firm strategy. The role offers a path toward partner leadership and equity ownership.

The role involves preparing complex tax advisory services, managing staff deliverables, client relationships, and mentoring professional tax staff within a boutique accounting firm.

The Tax Manager is responsible for managing tax services, building client relationships, supervising team members, and participating in firm growth and business development.

Lead tax engagements for privately held businesses and their owners, manage multiple client accounts, review business, personal, and trust tax returns, mentor junior staff, and provide high-level client service. The role requires strong public accounting experience, technical tax expertise, relationship-building skills, and the ability to balance leadership with hands-on work. Remote and hybrid options are available.

Manage tax engagements for privately held businesses and their owners, including business, personal, and trust returns. Review tax work, lead client relationships, solve complex tax issues, mentor junior staff, manage multiple engagements, and provide hands-on leadership. The role requires strong public accounting experience, an EA credential, and the ability to serve clients in a collaborative, relationship-driven environment.

Prepare complex tax returns, review smaller returns, manage multiple client engagements, and provide proactive tax guidance to privately held businesses and their owners. Build lasting client relationships, communicate clearly, manage an assigned book of business, and work independently within a collaborative public accounting team. The role may also involve gift tax and nonprofit engagements.

Own a portfolio of business and individual tax clients, overseeing compliance, planning, return review, and client advisory services. Manage engagement budgets, timelines, and scope; lead, assign, and review staff work; mentor team members; identify planning and cross-selling opportunities; and stay current on tax law. The role requires managing client relationships, using tax technology, and building an independent book of clients in a hybrid public accounting environment.

Manage diverse tax engagements for small businesses, corporations, business owners, and high-net-worth individuals. Responsibilities include reviewing complex tax returns, conducting tax planning and research, handling tax authority audits and notices, coordinating concurrent projects, scheduling and mentoring staff, improving processes, counseling employees, and developing new business. The role requires strong client relationships, technical tax knowledge, leadership, prioritization, and collaboration across accounting and advisory practices.

Ascend seeks applicants for future opportunities in accounting, operations, or administrative support across partner firms, encouraging general applications to remain connected with the recruiting team.

Prepare and review tax returns (individuals, corporations, S-corps, partnerships, trusts, estates); correct trial balances and create AJEs; document tax calculations; mentor associates; communicate with clients; ensure compliance with federal, state, and local tax codes; work independently and in teams during busy season to meet deadlines.