As a Tax Associate on our State and Local Tax team you will gain exposure to tax compliance and accounting assignments from a US federal and state and local tax perspective. From a tax compliance perspective, you will become familiar with the federal, state and local corporate income tax filings for the firm. From a tax accounting perspective, you will become knowledgeable of the components and calculations of the effective tax rate and deferred taxes pursuant to ASC 740 (formerly FAS 109).
Job Responsibilities:
- Prepare federal, state and local corporate income tax return for a variety of JPMC entities with a focus on state income and franchise taxes. This includes gathering and analyzing financial information to properly determine the impact on such tax returns.
- Document all tax return support in Corporate Tax’s workflow database.
- Ad hoc tax research related to various tax return positions.
- Compute current and deferred tax provision and liabilities on previously identified book-tax differences.
- Analyze new transactions to determine potential book-tax differences and other related tax accounting treatment.
- Monitor new accounting policies and pronouncements to determine proper tax treatment of such new emerging issues.
Required qualifications, skills and capabilities:
- 2+ years of relevant tax accounting and compliance experience
- Excellent communication, organizational and attention to details skills; self-starter.
- Ability to effectively use various programs such as Microsoft Office, Alteryx, BI tools and SAP\
Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities:
- Knowledge of Onesource RS tax compliance software
- Accounting degree
- An MBA with emphasis in tax, or an MST and/ or a CPA license is a plus.
- State income/franchise tax experience preferred
- Big 4 accounting firm experience