Tax and Accounting Specialist

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Job description

Vinoble Group is a dynamic financial consultancy based in the Pacific Northwest, offering creative and well-rounded advice and solutions to help individuals and businesses feel energized about their lives and their future. We see our clients and our team members as family, believing in their potential and supporting them in every way to realize it. We are committed to long-term relationships fulfilled through purposeful advice and an overwhelming sense of pride to see our clients reach their greatest life goals.

Vinoble Group is seeking a Tax and Accounting Specialist to add to its growing Tax and Accounting Team. Acting as one of our clients' trusted business and personal advisors, you will strive to ensure the high-level execution of our unique approach to comprehensive tax planning and accounting.

Vinoble Group's goal is to organize, strategize and support clients so that they can live their lives the way they want, free from financial stress. We carry our innovation and personalization over to our operations and technology so that our clients have a consistently meaningful experience at every interaction. We put our clients first, at all times and in everything we do.

In this role, we'll count on you to:

• Provide bookkeeping and payroll consultation and services; file excise tax returns.
• Prepare complete and accurate tax returns, in accordance with Vinoble Group policies and in compliance with current legislation and regulations; provide clients with IRS audit support.
• Meet with Vinoble Group clients to provide guidance and technical support.
• Maintain detailed client records by organizing, logging, and filing vital client information.
• Grow and maintain knowledge in concepts, procedures, and tools directly related to tax preparation and accounting; look for and take advantage of personal and professional development opportunities; ask for and offer help when needed.
• Coordinate outreach and service to clients utilizing multiple resources within Vinoble Group -Tax and Accounting, Comprehensive Wealth Management, Group Benefits and Insurance, and Group Retirement Plans; act as liaison and effectively manage inter-team internal and client-facing communication across our breadth of services; identify opportunities for expanded scope of relationship.

Qualifications / Skill Requirements

• Associate degree in Accounting or three (3) years' experience in bookkeeping.
• Valid PTIN or completed coursework to obtain a PTIN upon hire; Enrolled Agent (EA) certification a plus.
• Ability to work with an ecosystem of accounting software; Experience with QuickBooks Online, Dext, Square, Shopify, Salesforce, Practice Ignition, Gusto, ADP, and Lacerte preferred.
• QuickBooks ProAdvisor Certified.
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic, largely paperless environment and simultaneously handle multiple priorities.
• Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities; exhibit objectivity and openness to others' views; give and welcome feedback; contribute to building a positive team spirit; support everyone's efforts to succeed.
• Ability to keep commitments; inspire the trust of others; work ethically and with integrity; uphold organizational values; show respect and sensitivity for cultural differences; promote a supportive, diverse, and safe work environment.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively via telephone, in writing and in-person; listen, collaborate, and respond to questions; perform sedentary to light work in an office setting. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.

As a valued team member, you can count on Vinoble Group to:

• Provide comprehensive one-on-one and self-guided training for the skills needed for success in this role. We also offer tuition reimbursement to eligible employees seeking continuing education and professional development in firm-approved areas of study. Vinoble Group encourages an environment of learning and evolution. We know we can be better for our clients when we seek to better ourselves.
• Support work/life balance. We all have families, passions, and things that we want to do in life. Vinoble Group encourages taking time off for vacations, coaching our kids' sport teams, adventures to the mountains or time off in serenity.
• Provide Group Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance, 401(k) Plan, and transit/parking assistance to eligible employees. We believe that helping our employees take care of the basics can only help us thrive.

Your Workplace

The Vinoble Group Tax and Accounting office is located in The Financial Center in downtown Seattle, Washington, within walking distance of the Seattle Public Central Library, Westlake Park, Seattle Art Museum, Pike Place Market, and the Seattle Waterfront. Our office space feels like a comfortable room in your own home. Art made by our team members and fresh flowers on the bookshelves aim to bring the beautiful Pacific Northwest inside. Sounds of classic jazz, country or our signature 80's Rock Thursdays showcase our humor and enjoyment of all things. True believers in an open-door policy in all senses, our Tax and Accounting Team workspace is open and collaborative.

At Vinoble Group, we are mindful, always, of our team's health and safety. At this time, we are adhering strictly to guidance provided by state and local health authorities, practicing increased sanitary measures, distancing, and staggered in-office and work-from-home schedules.

Vinoble Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination. Vinoble Group is committed to providing a respectful workplace where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, physical and mental disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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