Corporate Tax Expert

Job details

Hourly contract

Remote

$85 – $100

Location: United States

About the work We’re building a high-quality library of corporate tax work products. You’ll complete self-contained tax exercises from mock files (trial balances, intercompany agreements, deal documents) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

What you’ll do

• Build quarterly and annual income tax provisions under ASC 740 with current and deferred calculations and rate reconciliation.
• Prepare returns and supporting workpapers across federal, state apportionment and international regimes, and forecast cash taxes by jurisdiction.
• Produce technical computations and studies: GILTI, FDII, BEAT, Pillar Two, 163(j) limitation, and net operating loss and attribute analysis.
• Build transfer pricing master file and local file documentation with intercompany agreement and policy review.
• Work transaction tax: diligence of exposures and attributes, structuring memos, and documented tax positions including FIN 48 reserves.

You’re a fit if you have

• 4+ years in corporate income tax, in-house or Big 4.
• Depth in at least one of: provision and compliance, international and transfer pricing, or M&A tax.

Nice to have

• CPA; JD or LLM in Taxation; EA; CTA. Tax equity and HLBV modeling experience.

Assessment An ASC 740 provision from a mock trial balance; a transfer pricing benchmarking memo; a deal tax structuring recommendation.

Note: this is corporate income tax. Individual return preparation, payroll tax, and sales-tax-only backgrounds are out of scope.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

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