Tax Accountant, Lead

Company: JM Family
Location: Deerfield Beach
Posted on: June 8, 2021

Job Description:

JM Family Enterprises, Inc. is one of the largest, most innovative and diversified companies in the automotive industry. JM Family has been on Fortune Magazine's Best Companies to Work For for 23 consecutive years. What started with Jim Moran's passion for selling cars continues today with the dedication and hard work of every JM Family associate. Our principal businesses focus on vehicle distribution and processing, finance and insurance, retail vehicle sales, and dealer technology services. At JM Family, our mission is to be the premier provider of quality products and services. We accomplish this mission by adhering to our core values, the three C’s, the I and the A: Consideration, Cooperation, Communication, Innovation, and Accountability.

Responsibilities:

• Gathers, reviews and analyzes data/information necessary to compute quarterly and year-end taxable income and state apportionment factors
• Prepares/Reviews quarterly and year-end tax workpapers and taxable income calculations
• Reviews Federal and State income and franchise tax returns as prepared by outside provider
• Responsible for various tasks in support of tax return/tax provision process (e.g. Management of Fixed Assets, tax basis tracking, administering K-1s received from partnerships, etc.)
• Prepares and Reviews well-written tax research documents, relating to various federal and state tax matters, under direction of senior tax personnel
• Responds to tax-related inquiries received from corporate business units providing feedback and advice to those business units
• Provides initial review of tax provision and tax basis balance sheet computations
• Prepares and reviews tax footnotes in support of yearly financial statements
• Periodically prepares and reviews analyses and forecasts of corporate taxable income
• Provides support by gathering and reviewing information and preparing tax calculations relating to income/franchise tax audits
• Tracks federal and state tax legislative developments seeking opportunities for tax savings to reduce effective tax rate and increase company cash flows
• Oversees the work of outside tax advisors and maintains the relationship with them

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Master’s Degree preferred
• CPA required
• Minimum of 4-6 years of corporate income tax experience with a Corporate Tax Department and/or Big 4 Firm required; insurance tax experience a plus!
• High level of proficiency using tax research software, One Source tax provision, MS Office products, and technology applications (including Alteryx) is preferred
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills are a must
• Must be flexible and adaptable while working under strict deadlines
• Ability to cooperate/collaborate on a departmental and cross-functional basis to enable team to reach established goals

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