TAS Tax Associate

Job Description:

We’re KSM, one of the top 50 largest independent advisory, tax, and audit firms in the United States. But more than our size, it’s our people and culture that set us apart. We believe great things happen when people are supported, challenged, and given the freedom to do their very best work. That’s why we’ve built a workplace where your career and personal life can thrive together – where you have the flexibility to manage your time, the resources to grow, and a team that genuinely cares about your success.

We’ve been employee-owned since 2001, giving every team member a stake in our collective success. This ownership mentality fosters a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and excellence  – where new ideas are welcomed, different perspectives are valued, and you’re encouraged to explore what excites you most. Whether you’re expanding your skills, tackling new challenges, or making an impact beyond the office, we provide the resources and support to help you grow in the direction that’s right for you.

At KSM, your contributions matter – not just to the firm, but to your colleagues, clients, and the communities we serve across the U.S. If you’re looking for a place where you can do meaningful work, build lasting relationships, and grow in ways that align with what’s most important to you, we’d love to meet you.

Responsibilities:

• Operates as a member of multiple deal teams, assisting in tax due diligence and supporting our private equity and strategic acquirer clients. This role will act as a tax contact for individual due diligence engagements and will work alongside the financial diligence team and with the tax technical leaders.

• Communicates engagement status with both the financial due diligence deal team and technical tax leaders. Key topics of communication can include open tax requests or items such as tax exposure or structuring items.

• Monitors and communicates deal milestones to ensure projects are progressing according to pre-determined timelines.

• Monitors, aggregates, and digests target tax data for presentation to tax diligence managers.

• Acts as a liaison with the various technical tax diligence leaders across all tax matters.

• Ability to research tax technical issues, analyze key legal authorities, and clearly frame federal, state, and local income, sales and use, payroll, and property tax exposures for technical diligence managers.

• Reads and interprets merger and acquisition documents.

• Possesses strong writing skills that succinctly describe potential risks and tax exposures.

• Assists with tax modeling on projects specific to the transaction.

• Researches relevant tax updates and rulings, ensuring diligence team understands the latest proposed or enacted developments in tax legislation and industry standards. 

• Helps draft insightful pieces and/or posts on the latest tax diligence trends, cases and legislation that could be shared by marketing as thought leadership.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university required.

• 1 – 2 years of experience in tax accounting.

• CPA eligible, MST or JD a plus.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong Excel skills preferred.

• Strong project management and analytical skills.

• Capable of working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment (either independently or within a team dynamic) while effectively managing unexpected issues and/or questions in a professional manner.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, veteran status, or any other protected category. 

KSM only accepts resumes directly submitted by a candidate and referrals submitted by current KSM employees. Unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles sent by staffing agencies and fee-based referral services will not be considered outside of a signed KSM vendor contract. KSM will not pay a fee to recruiters or agencies that do not have a signed KSM vendor contract.