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Offering a high touch approach, we have extensive experience serving high net-worth individuals, their families, family offices, C-Suite executives, athletes, entertainers, as well as other people with complicated tax and financial structures. The Private Client Services Practice is experienced in all aspects of estate, income, gift, and trust tax consulting and compliance; charitable giving and philanthropic foundations; executive compensation; and cash-flow, retirement, and life insurance planning.\nA Tax Experienced Senior, Private Client Services (PCS)is responsible for utilizing their educational background and professional experience as well as their communication, time management, leadership, technical, business development, and people skills to provide tax compliance and consulting services to our high net-worth clients.\nJob Duties:\nParticipates in tax and consulting engagements and enhances skills identifying and addressing client needs, tax planning, and consulting opportunities\nWorks directly with clients and their advisors to gather information needed to prepare tax returns\nDevelops understanding of complex individual, trust, estate, S-Corp, foundation, partnership, and gift tax returns, both Federal and State jurisdictions, while demonstrating the ability to follow instructions and actively seek feedback\nReviews basic individual and trust tax returns and provides written and verbal feedback to staff and interns\nAnalyzes tax notices received from government agencies and prepares initial drafts of response\nIdentifies technical issues, conducts advanced tax research, and develops sound recommendations for PCS leadership\nWorks in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment both independently and within a team dynamic\nPrioritizes and completes tasks\nAssists with PCS/firm contribution responsibilities including billing, recruiting, attendance and participation in CPE activities and training\nBuilds new relationships with other professionals both inside and outside the firm\nSupervisory Responsibilities:\nMay supervise and manage the day-to-day work assignments of PCS Associates \nProvides verbal and written performance feedback to PCS Associates, as necessary\nActs as mentor to PCS Associates\nQualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:\nEducation:\nBachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Statistics, required; OR Bachelor's degree in other focus area and CPA certification, required\nMaster’s degree in Accountancy or Taxation, preferred\nExperience:\nThree (3) or more years of prior relevant tax experience and/or public accounting, private industry accounting, or consulting/professional services experience, required\nExperienced in private client services, preferred\nPrior basic supervisory experience, preferred\nLicense/Certifications:\nCPA certification, Attorney (admitted to practice in a U.S. jurisdiction), or Internal Revenue Service Enrolled Agent (“EA”) (or the equivalent of one of these designations), preferred\nPossession of other professional degrees or certifications applicable to role preferred\nSoftware:\nProficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite (specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat, required\nExperience with tax compliance process software (GoSystems, BNA Tax Planner, GoFileRoom, SurePrep), preferred\nExperience with tax research tools (BNA Portfolio, CCH IntelliConnect, Checkpoint and Lexis Nexis), preferred\nLanguages:\nN/A\nOther Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:\nInitiativeWorks hard, putting in extra effort when necessary to complete their assignments within given deadlines; self-starting; doesn’t need to be explicitly told to put in this effort; when set, meets weekly/engagement hours expectations\nOwns their own career and technical development; demonstrates self-awareness, actively pursues projects and learning experiences to fill in their technical knowledge gaps\n\nCommunicationExpresses themselves effectively verbally and in writing; takes complex thoughts, synthesizes them into works using clear, concise language, and presents a cohesive narrative\nInternally, communicates the status of their work to their team; promptly responds to requests\n\nLeadershipLeads by example, acting as a model for the firm’s core values\nTakes on challenges; sees tasks through completion, even if there are obstacles\n\nBusiness DevelopmentParticipates in business development and networking activities \nSeizes opportunities for new professional contacts when presented\n\nPeople DevelopmentAbility to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm\nAssists in supervision, development, and training of employees \n\nIndividual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.\nCalifornia Range: $96,000 - $125,000\nColorado Range: $80,000 - $100,000\nIllinois Range: $90,000 - $108,000\nMaryland Range: $98,000 - $110,000\nMassachusetts Range: $102,000 - $119,000\nMinnesota Range: $80,000 - $95,000\nNew Jersey Range: $88,000 - $125,000\nOhio Range: $85,000 - $115,000\nNYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $110,000 - $125,000\nWashington Range: $83,000 - $115,000\nWashington DC Range: $105,000 - $117,000","description_format":"text","description_chars":5346,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Professional Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T14:06:54Z"}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.629,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:4","stale_co","wave","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":125000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/bdo-usa-tax-experienced-senior-private-client-services-10","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/bdo-usa-tax-experienced-senior-private-client-services-10.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T07:17:30Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}