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Escaping the Dungeon: The Hottest Accounting Jobs for Q1 2019

Posted on by Grant Hutchinson
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Protip: In the classic PC and NES game Maniac Mansion, you can escape the dungeon by pressing a loose brick in the wall. The door only opens for a few seconds though, so you’ll have to hustle to make it out in time.

That’s great advice for video games but pretty useless if you’re stuck in the dungeon of a boring, thankless accounting job. Here’s something that is useful, however: a list of the best accounting job openings. These are jobs where you’ll enjoy flexible working options, real work/life balance, and fewer moments that make you feel like setting your computer on fire and unleashing a blizzard of profanity upon your coworkers.

Through our partners at Accountingfly, we’re dedicated to helping you escape the dungeon. Head over to their site now to upload your resume and see more of the best accounting job openings.

This quarter’s job list is sponsored by Advaion, which is looking for Financial Audit Consultants in New York City and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Aprio, which is hiring Audit Seniors in Atlanta. 

Top remote jobs:

Remote Sales Tax Accountant
TaxButler

TaxButler is looking for a Sales Tax Accountant to help its clients eliminate the hassle and risk of sales tax. As a team member of a growing startup, you’ll work closely with the Filing Manager and Client Onboarding Manager to ensure that sales tax filings are submitted accurately and on time, every time. Reporting to the Founder and Filing Manager, you will use your keen eye and attention to detail to submit sales tax returns, onboard new clients, solve time-critical problems, and continue to help build internal documentation. You are a self-starter, willing to learn on the job, inquisitive, and take ownership and pride over your work. The ideal candidate has experience working remotely, is not afraid to learn new technology, and has some sales tax experience.

Requirements:

  • Remote work experience.
  • Attention to detail and interpersonal skills.
  • Comfortable working one-on-one with clients.
  • Willing to learn new skills on the job.
  • Comfortable with a fast-moving environment, strict deadlines, and/or uncertainty.

Click here to apply or chat with a recruiter

Remote Senior Tax Accountant
Monheit Zongolowicz Frisch CPAs (MRZ)

This 47-year-old Arizona-based firm is looking for a Remote Senior Tax Accountant ASAP.  

MRZ offers comprehensive wealth management and tax services to a diverse clientele. Its team understands the complex yet vitally important relationship between tax and wealth management. The firm’s knowledge, experience, and strategic approach enables it to truly make a difference in the financial lives of its clients.

Requirements:

  • Three to five years experience as a tax accountant in a public accounting firm.
  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or business.
  • CPA, CPA candidate, or EA.
  • Experience with estate and trust work with a strong desire to learn more.
  • Desire to become an estate and trust subject-matter expert.
  • Experience with CCH.

Click here to apply or chat with a recruiter

Full Charge Remote Bookkeeper
Accountingprose

Accountingprose is a fast-paced cloud accounting service that provides full-cycle accounting and payroll services to some of the most interesting, innovative, and fun small business owners on the planet. They are developers, designers, creatives, gym owners, lawyers, and so much more. The firm has two main locations, Denver and Phoenix, yet clients and employees are located all over the United States. With a focus on interaction and relationship-building, Accountingprose creates a unique experience that is the driving force of its attitude and commitment to team members and clients alike. 

Requirements:

  • You’re an accounting superhero with a firm grasp of GAAP.
  • You’re a “Chatty Cathy” who likes to hop on a call with a client at a moment’s notice.
  • You’re a spreadsheet wizard who can easily make sense of lots of information.
  • You can adapt to ever-changing technology.
  • You’re familiar with Xero, Bill.com, Gusto, Receipt Bank, Hubdoc, and other cloud accounting software.

Click here to apply or chat with a recruiter

Top location-specific jobs:

New York City and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – Financial Audit Consultant
Advaion

Advaion believes it’s possible to be premier consultants and have a life. It’s hard to believe but it’s really that simple. The financial advisory firm is looking to build its team, and its leadership is committed to helping you grow your career. Your personal success is Advaion’s most important goal.

Advaion is hiring Senior Consultants with public accounting experience in New York City and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Its staff enjoys serious career development, challenging projects, limited travel, profit share, and bonuses while performing at an incredibly high level.

Requirements:

  • Three-plus years of public accounting and/or external/internal audit experience.
  • SEC reporting, SOX, and financial audit experience.
  • Excellent communication skills (oral and written).

Click here to apply or chat with a recruiter

Atlanta – Audit Senior Associate
Aprio

Submerge yourself in a workplace with creative innovators striving for excellence. Aprio is the 50th-largest CPA firm in the nation and has been honored as the “Best of the Best” accounting and forensic accounting firm by INSIDE Public Accounting. It was recently named one of the Top Places to Work in Atlanta by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Over 25 languages are spoken at Aprio, and 25% of its staff is foreign-born. The firm specializes in eight different industries. As the Audit Senior Associate, you’ll gain priceless experiences and skills that will help both you and the company grow. Aprio wants you to define its brand positioning, contribute to industry-leading innovation, and help its clients thrive.

Requirements:

  • Four-year bachelor’s degree in accounting (master’s preferred).
  • Licensed CPA preferred.
  • Three to five years of experience working for a public accounting firm.
  • Developed specialties in manufacturing and/or technology.
  • Understanding and applying Excel skills.
  • Successfully using CaseWare or other audit software.

Click here to apply or chat with a recruiter

Philadelphia – Accountant
Kregel CPAs

Kregel & Company is an atypical accounting firm. It provides clients with a refreshing CPA experience, combining innovative technology with expertise and a deep sense of care. The firm offers accounting services, tax planning, payroll, and business consulting. More importantly, it provides peace of mind and the insights small business owners need to reach their goals.

If you’re looking for an accounting/cloud bookkeeping role with a purpose-driven group, where you can grow as a person and a professional, check out Kregel.

Requirements:

  • Accounting role experience.
  • Desire to work at a startup.
  • Experience and interest in financial software tools.
  • Customer service or a customer-facing role experience.
  • Diploma or degree in accounting (CPA an asset).
  • Business tax return experience.

Click here to apply or chat with a recruiter

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Stop Worrying About Things You Can’t Control

The following post is republished from AccountingWEB, a source of accounting news, information, tips, tools, resources and insight — everything you need to help you prosper and enjoy the accounting profession.

The first person you have to manage every day is you. You want to be in a strong position at work. You want to take charge of your role in every relationship with every boss. It’s just that there are so many factors beyond your control at work.

I’ve done hundreds of focus groups with thousands of people around one very simple question: What gets in the way of your success at work? Like clockwork, nine out of 10 responses are factors that are totally beyond the control of the individual.


What gets in the way of your success?

• Company policies, rules, regulations, corporate culture, standard operating procedures
• The way things have always been done around here.
• There is too much work and not enough time.
• There are too many low-priority activities that take me away from my most important tasks and responsibilities.
• There is a lot of conflict between and among employees, which creates a stressful, negative mood.
• Resources are limited and sometimes I don’t have the people, materials, and tools that I need to do the job.
• There is no clear chain of command in this organization.
• I answer to too many different people.
• My various bosses each have different standards of performance and conduct.
• My various bosses each tell me conflicting things about what should take priority.
• My various bosses each tell me conflicting things about rules and policies.
• Some bosses yell and scream and make things difficult.
• Sometimes bosses don’t make time for me one-on-one, some bosses don’t make expectations clear, and some don’t keep track of performance.

Sound familiar? There are so many factors beyond your control.

But you control you. You control your own thoughts, words, and actions. You control your attitude, commitment, time, effort, and your ideas. You are responsible for playing your role to the best of your ability every day at work. So be powerful. Focus on what you can control: You.

First, make sure that the first person you are managing every day is you. Make sure you are taking good care of you outside of work so that you are bringing your very best to work every day. Arrive a little early. Stay a little late.

And while you are at work, you need to be all about the work. Your work, that is. Focus on playing the role assigned to you before you ever try to reach beyond that role. Focus on your tasks, your responsibilities, your projects. Focus on doing them very well, very fast, all day long.

How CPAs Keep the Holiday Season Productive

The following post is republished from AccountingWEB, a source of accounting news, information, tips, tools, resources and insight — everything you need to help you prosper and enjoy the accounting profession.

The holidays: a nice, quiet time of year to enjoy with friends and family, while methodically preparing for the upcoming year and a busy tax season. The only problem is very few of us can afford to take off six weeks between Thanksgiving and the New Year, let alone reduce our contact with customers and clients.

We interviewed a number of CPA firm leaders, from sole prs at large firms, to get their take, advice, and best practices on how to best spend time during the holiday season, while effectively planning for the upcoming year.


Communicate and get face time with clients

The welcome lack of immediate deadlines and calm before the tax season storm provides a great opportunity to get in touch with your clients.

“Every year I tell my clients that the holiday season coincides with the upcoming tax season, and that it’s a good time to get in touch and see where things are financially,” said Mark Eiger, CPA, a New Jersey-based accountant. “One thing you don’t want after Christmas is an April 15th surprise!”

Gail Rosen, CPA, recommends an e-mail communication.

“During my downtime, I like to use the software package Constant Contact to send e-mail updates to clients, contacts, and friends. For example, one update every tax practitioner should consider sending this year is a reminder to their clients that they only have until December 31 to do a Roth conversion without income limits and with the option of spreading the income over two years for tax purposes,” Rosen said.

“The last issue you want is clients who are upset that you haven’t informed them of all their options – and the deadline now has passed. I find that when I send this e-mail update, many people reply back. This exchange creates business opportunities I otherwise would not have had,” she said.

Michael Cecere, a partner at Gray, Gray & Gray LLP, hits the road to get some face time with his clients.

“The holidays can actually be a pretty intense time period with a lot of face-to-face meetings,” Cecere said. “It’s a bittersweet time because we’re busy now, and busy after!”

Stay aggressive on business development

‘Tis a great season to be focused on marketing and networking, recommended James Guarino, a partner at Moody, Famiglietti & Andronico, LLP. “This time of the year, we’re always meeting with clients and networking with our contacts, getting out into the public, and letting people know that we’re available if and when we’re needed.”

Cecere agrees. “The business development element never stops – it can’t take a back seat. We continue to attend networking events, conferences, seminars, and set up meetings. In addition, more companies are back to hosting holiday parties, so we’re becoming busier attending our clients’ parties.”

Self-improvement, continuing education

Most accountants agreed that the relative calm of the holiday season provides a good opportunity for conducting evaluations, performance reviews, and catching up on continuing education.

“We’re continually educating our staff, so at the end of the year, we conduct a lot of in-house training,” Guarino said. “We want to familiarize them with the software and tax systems they’ll use during the upcoming tax season.”

His firm, and others we spoke with, also dedicates a significant portion of time during November and December to evaluations and performance reviews.

Review of tax law

Guarino’s team also makes it a point to review current-year tax law and proposed tax law. “Clients want to know how to improve their tax situation – both for current and future years,” he said.

Steven J. Elliott, tax director at Schwartz & Company, LLP, does the same, saving “time for major tax planning opportunities for both business and individual clients in order to best advise them about year-end tax payments and other planning items, such as minimum IRA/retirement distributions, Roth IRAs, stock trading activity, and more.”

Recharge your batteries

Historically, the holiday season was a time to enjoy with loved ones, and generally chill out a bit; but that’s easier said than done in 2010.

“It’s tougher to disconnect now than ever before,” said Cecere. “Times have changed now that we’re plugged into e-mail 24/7. It’s a never-ending cycle because you’re always connected; the higher up the ladder you go, the greater pressure you’re under to respond quickly.”

Guarino’s firm makes it a top priority to remove as many obstacles as it can to enable employees to recharge their batteries. From October 15 until the beginning of December, they make it a point to take time off to reenergize.

Elliott agrees with this strategy. “Best of all, it’s a time when more family time/vacation can take place in and around the special projects. We need this time to recharge the batteries for the next busy season. And, although it is usually a quieter time, there is always something to do!”

How do you handle customer and client activity during the holidays, and what does your firm do to renew and energize its employees? Send me a note and I’ll tweet your responses on the Chrometa blog.

About the author:
Brett Owens is CEO and co-founder of Chrometa, a Sacramento, CA-based provider of time-management software that accurately records and reports back how you spend your time. Previously marketed to only the legal community, Chrometa is branching out to accounting prospects. Gains include the ability to discover previously undocumented billable time, saving time on billing reconciliation and improving personal productivity. Owens is also a blogger and founder at ContraryInvesting.com, as well as a regular contributor to two leading financial media sites, SeekingAlpha.com and Minyanville.