Sr. Tax Advisor

About Wealth Enhancement

Wealth Enhancement is an independent wealth management firm with an endless passion for enriching the lives of our clients. We continually seek to perfect our craft of personalized financial planning with our team-based Roundtable and UniFi processes that go far beyond the standard approach. We proudly provide unique financial plans and investment management services to over 80,000 households from our over 140 offices - and growing - nationwide.

Since 1997, Wealth Enhancement has tirelessly raised the standard of wealth management with specialized knowledge and more attentive service that helps every client craft their future. For more information, please visit www.wealthenhancement.com.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Tax Advisor. This role at Wealth Enhancement Tax & Consulting Services (WETCS) is accountable for delivering high-quality tax advice, planning, and return preparation services to assigned WETCS clients and ensuring high client and Wealth Enhancement Group (WEG) Financial Advisor satisfaction through this role’s work and interactions.

Collaborates with other WETCS and WEG employees to improve individual and team expertise, effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction, and helps enhance the WETCS and WEG brands via high quality work output and professional, responsive, and respectful interactions with clients, WEG employees, and professional communities.

This role offers the remote work option, as well as excellent career growth potential.

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is $120,000.00 to $150,000.00, exclusive of bonuses and benefits. This role is also eligible for our corporate tax bonus.

Primary Job Functions
1. Tax Advisory, Planning and Preparation (~80%)

• Prepare and review tax returns, including related work documents for Individuals and one or more of these categories: Partnership, S-Corp, C-Corp, Trusts, Estates, Foundations, and Foreign Reporting.

• Prepare tax strategies and projections.

• Provide tax planning advice to clients and their WEG Financial Advisors.

• Conduct tax research and planning, including but not limited to BNA projections, special research projects, and retirement account recommendations.

• Review and respond to tax notices.

• Respond State and Federal Auditors inquiries and work to resolve them.

• Amend tax returns.

2. Help Drive Effectiveness, Productivity and Revenue Increases (~5%)

• Help identify and/or operationalize process, systems, tools, best practices, and communications improvements to enhance effectiveness, productivity and responsiveness.

• Help identify opportunities to increase value delivered to clients and revenue for WETCS and Financial Advisor teams while working with clients.

• When appropriate, promote WETCS services offerings to assigned tax clients.

• Ensure that urgent or high impact issues affecting assigned clients are quickly resolved.

3. Foster Teamwork (~5%)

• Build and maintain good relationships with Financial Advisor teams and clients.

• Collaborate with team members to improve team effectiveness, productivity, and satisfaction.

• Share tax expertise and assist team members as appropriate.

• Contribute to maintaining a positive and fun team culture.

4. Tax expertise and Professional Growth (~8%)

• Maintain expertise in all aspects of tax compliance.

• Maintain fluency in tax related software, tools and procedures used at WETCS.

• Grow your tax expertise in at least one area of tax each year through continuing professional education and individual learning.

• Stay informed about current trends in tax and the tax services industry.

• Answer tax related questions and act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Financial Advisor Teams and other WEG employees.

Education / Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Finance or Business; BS in Accounting preferred.

• CPA, EA, or JD required.

• Minimum of 7 years of tax accounting experience.

• Experience preparing high net worth individual tax returns (1040).

• Experience preparing at least one of the following types of tax returns: Trust, Gift, Estate, S Corp, C Corp, Partnerships, LLC, Private Foundation, Foreign Reporting.

• Experience doing tax planning and projections.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent financial acuity.

• Proficiency in Excel, CCH Axcess / ProSystems

• Collaborative; strong team-orientation.

• Professional attitude; treats everyone with respect.

• Positive solution-focused attitude.

• Detail oriented and diligent.

• Drive for results and excellence.

Comprehensive Benefits Offerings

Our benefits aim to balance four key elements that make life and work meaningful: health and wellness, financial well-being, professional development, and work/life harmony. You may participate in the following benefits & development opportunities:

• Training and professional development

• Medical, dental and vision coverage (Available to employees and their families)

• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for medical, dependent, and transit expenses

• Life and AD&D insurance – employer paid and voluntary options

• Short-term and long-term disability, workers compensation – employer paid

• 401k with match and profit sharing

• Wellness programs and resources

• Voluntary benefits, including pet insurance

• 18 days of paid time off (PTO), accrued annually (25 PTO days after 4 years of service)

• 12 paid holidays each year (10 pre-determined and 2 floating days)

• Paid parental leave and paid caregiver leave (Caregiver leave available after 6 months of tenure)

• Reimbursement for tuition, licensing, and other credentials (Available after meeting service requirements)

Should you need reasonable accommodation when completing the application form or during the selection process, contact the Human Resources Department at 763-417-1700

Information provided on this application will be kept confidential and only be shared with those involved in the selection process.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans. This organization participates in E-Verify.

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OSHA Requirements: This position requires the ability to stand or sit for long periods of time, file documents in high or low cabinets, to use the telephone and to use the computer systems.