Tax Associate, Justworks
Client Tax Services and Solutions
$86-94.6k
2-5 days a week in office
Business operations platform
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Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$86-94.6k
2-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- As a Tax Associate, Client Tax Services and Solutions, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization
- In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:
- Collaborative - building partnerships and working together with others to meet shared objectives
- Detail-oriented - exercises extreme attention to detail; is thorough, accurate, organized, and productive and seeks to understand both the cause and effect of a situation
- Nimble learning - actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
- Adaptability - the ability to adjust your approach or actions in response to changes in your external environment
- Creative thinking - discovering new opportunities and solutions for problems by looking beyond current practices and using innovative thinking
- 1-2 years of experience at a Big 4 accounting firm providing tax consulting or tax compliance services in any of the following areas: income taxes, tax provisions, fixed assets, tax credits and incentives, state and local taxes, or mergers & acquisitions. No payroll tax experience required
- 1-2 years of experience working with one or more business entity types (C-Corp, S-Corp, LLC, etc) from multiple industries
- CPA license or eligibility for the CPA license required
- Working proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point) and Google Suite (Sheets, Slides)
- Experience with reading and learning complex federal and state legislation
- Good business partnership instincts: an ability to quickly develop trusted relationships among functional peers
- Strong communication skills that are suitable for a fast paced, rapid decision-making environment
- Preferred but not required: Familiarity with data querying (e.g., SQL), scripting languages (e.g., Python), and modern developer/AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Cursor
What the job involves
- Do you love working with startups and SMBs
- Do you enjoy learning new areas of tax law
- This is your opportunity to join an innovative and impactful team within Justworks’ Operations Division
- This role will explore and enable outstanding customer tax service delivery across the full range of tax market offerings that help SMBs on Justworks’ platform to take advantage of federal, state and local tax programs, improve compliance and create efficiency thereby creating value and helping their growth
- The Tax Associate of Client Tax Services and Solutions has a background in tax compliance or tax consulting for one or more business entities, including C-corps, S-Corps, LLCs, partnerships, and 501(c)(3)s
- Your focus in this role will be to support our existing tax related services and contribute to growing our service offerings
- Working with internal stakeholders and external customers, you will help to shape the services and solutions
- Assist with the calculations, reviews, or audits of various tax credits submitted by customers or their accountants
- Compile reconciliation reports for customers, detailing total credits issued, date issued, and credits pending
- Support the team in performing internal reconciliations of balances due to and due from customers. Work cross-functionally with teams to communicate outstanding balances due from customers
- Work with our internal design and product teams to test new features and provide usability and compliance feedback from an accountant’s perspective
- Leverage your tax expertise to assist with projects that provide thought leadership and insights into general industry needs and business opportunities
- Assist with the compilation of executive reports that communicate insights and present findings on market behavior and industry trends as well as business cases including competitive landscape and developments trends
- Help to promote and explain the benefits of the new offerings to internal teams and customers and be an integral part of executing go-to-market strategies
- Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of strong standard operating procedures around our tax service offerings
- Work with accountant partner firms and our marketing team to develop thought-leadership content and networking opportunities
- Assist with complex escalated issues customers may have regarding taxes and Justworks products, which may include communicating directly with customers via email or conference calls
- Help drive tax and accounting customer awareness and education, and perform other related responsibilities based on department and/or organizational needs
- Assist with responses to complex questions and requests from various teams at Justworks (including Customer Success), helping build stronger internal stakeholder relationships
- Acquire and maintain knowledge of the Justworks payroll platform and educate team members
- Assist in other special projects as assigned
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's 2024 acquisition of the international employment-of-record (EOR) company Via is a promising sign of it's continued strength.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Founder & Directive)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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