A growing accounting and compliance services organization supporting, nonprofits, ministers, and related organizations nationwide, is seeking a Senior Tax Accountant to join their team in Noblesville, Indiana. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced tax professional who wants meaningful client ownership, manageable busy-season expectations, and the chance to help shape a growing tax department.
What You'll Do as the Senior Tax Accountant:
- Manage tax returns from preparation through final review and filing
- Review individual and business tax returns prepared by other team members
- Identify missing information, inconsistencies, and potential tax issues
- Communicate directly with clients to resolve questions and gather supporting documentation
- Finalize returns and ensure accuracy before submission
- Prepare and review primarily individual Form 1040 returns and related business returns
- Assist with Form 990 nonprofit returns as needed
- Develop expertise in clergy and ministerial tax matters
- Learn specialized tax treatment related to minister compensation and church-related organizations
- Partner closely with the Director of Tax Services and existing tax preparation staff
- Help organize and manage tax workflow during busy season
- Build trusted, long-term client relationships
- Support process improvements as the tax department grows
- Potentially assist with hiring, training, and mentoring additional tax professionals over time
- Take on increasing responsibility as the tax practice expands
Must-Haves as the Senior Tax Accountant:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field
- 3+ years of professional tax experience preferred
- Hands-on tax preparation experience
- Strong individual Form 1040 experience
- Ability to manage a tax return independently through completion
- Experience reviewing or finalizing tax returns
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Comfort working directly with clients
- Strong organization and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple returns and priorities simultaneously
- Sound professional judgment
- Stable work history preferred
- Ability to work primarily in-office in Noblesville
Nice-to-Haves as the Senior Tax Accountant:
- CPA designation
- Enrolled Agent designation
- Form 990 experience
- Nonprofit tax experience
- Experience reviewing returns prepared by junior staff
- Experience with clergy or ministerial tax matters
- Public accounting experience
- Experience working with local, regional, or national tax firms
- Experience mentoring or training tax staff
- Interest in future tax department leadership
- Experience working in a growing tax practice
The Company Offers:
- Base salary of $65,000-$85,000, depending on experience
- Potential flexibility up to $90,000 for an exceptional candidate
- Employer-paid health insurance
- Employer-paid dental insurance
- Employer-paid vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off
- PTO flexibility based on experience
- Potential additional time off following busy-season workloads
- Primarily in-office schedule with hybrid flexibility for the right candidate
- Sustainable busy-season expectations
- Typical busy season of approximately 50 hours per week for roughly 6-8 weeks per year
- Relaxed, collaborative work environment
- Long-tenured team
- Opportunity to help shape a growing tax department
- Potential progression into hiring, mentoring, and future leadership responsibilities
- Meaningful client-facing work without the extreme workload often associated with traditional public accounting firms
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field
- 3+ years of professional tax experience
- Hands-on tax preparation experience
- Strong individual Form 1040 experience
- Ability to manage a tax return independently through completion
- Experience reviewing or finalizing tax returns
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Comfort working directly with clients
- Strong organization and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple returns and priorities simultaneously
- Sound professional judgment
- Stable work history
- Ability to work primarily in-office in Noblesville
- CPA designation
- Enrolled Agent designation
- Form 990 experience
- Nonprofit tax experience
- Experience reviewing returns prepared by junior staff
- Experience with clergy or ministerial tax matters
- Public accounting experience
- Experience with local, regional, or national tax firms
- Experience mentoring or training tax staff
- Interest in future tax department leadership
- Experience working in a growing tax practice
What We Do
Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI—improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges—like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity—it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.
