Tax Compliance and Quality Manager - Temporary

Compensation: $60 - $70 per hour

Key Responsibilities

April is looking for a Tax Compliance and Quality Manager - Temporary who thrives in fast-paced environments, adapts quickly, and embraces challenges in a high-growth startup. In this role, you’ll lead a team of tax return reviewers, develop and implement review processes and quality metrics, and ensure every review meets both accuracy and efficiency goals. This position bridges tax expertise, operations, and leadership to drive accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement. You’ll collaborate closely with service delivery and product teams to share learnings, provide feedback for performance management, improve training, and enhance the tools and resources that support our tax experts.

This leadership role is ideal for someone with deep tax expertise, proven experience building review processes, and a track record of leading quality control teams in high-volume tax practices. You’ll be part of an agile, collaborative team where we build, learn, and iterate quickly—and where your voice and feedback directly shape the experience we deliver. The duration of this contract is from October 2025 until May 2026 with potential to extend beyond. 

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain quality standards, workflows, and review metrics that balance accuracy with efficiency
• Hire, lead, train, and support a seasonal team of tax return reviewers, ensuring consistent application of standards
• Provide targeted feedback to managers to support expert coaching and performance management
• Implement processes for clear, actionable feedback on errors or omissions in tax returns
• Set tax preparation standards and make final determinations on complex tax positions
• Monitor and manage SLAs for return review turnaround times
• Oversee workforce planning and capacity management for the review pipeline
• Share review findings and trends with service delivery and product teams to improve training, resources, and processes
• Ensure compliance with IRS and state requirements for practice management, including e-file, signature, due diligence, and document collection/retention
  

Qualifications

• Active CPA or EA credential with valid PTIN
• 5+ years of tax preparation and review experience, including complex individual and business returns
• 3+ years managing teams of tax professionals in a high-volume practice, ideally in a remote environment with review responsibilities
• Strong knowledge of federal and state tax compliance rules
• Proven ability to lead high-performing teams and foster a supportive, collaborative culture
• Demonstrated experience creating and implementing scalable processes, workflows, and quality standards
• Hands-on experience conducting and overseeing tax return quality reviews to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and compliance
• Willing to work outside of standard business hours, including evenings and weekends during peak season (January–April) 
• Passion for improving the experience for both customers and tax experts through service and product innovation
• Self-starter mindset—comfortable with change, learning by doing, and helping shape the future of the tax industry

About april

april is the only embedded, year-round tax platform built to power smarter financial decisions. From filing to planning to onboarding, april’s white-labeled tools bring real-time tax intelligence into the platforms people already use, helping users understand the impact of every paycheck, equity transaction, or income shift, and stay on top of tax payments throughout the year. Built to handle even the most complex tax situations, april’s AI-powered tax engine ingests data directly from partner apps to deliver accurate outcomes in record time—making tax planning and filing more connected, contextual, and accessible than ever. With API-first infrastructure and seamless data integrations, april helps partners deliver more value, deepen loyalty, and turn taxes into a strategic edge—for their clients and their business.