Fractional Tax Associate

Department: Escalon Tax Practice

Employment Type: Contract

Location: Remote

Description

What does it mean to be a Fractional Tax Associate within the Escalon team?
As a Fractional Tax Associate you could spend a few hours a month up to full-time availability applying your technical and account management skill set across a variety of clients and industries.

Are you an Industry Expert – Let us know!
Our client serving teams offer industry focused verticals that span over; SaaS, Media & Entertainment, Consumer Packaged Goods, Life Sciences, Non-Profit and Private Equity specialties.


What You’ll Do:  

The Fractional Tax Associate will assist in the delivery of a full range of tax services in compliance with laws and regulations to multiple clients.  This role is proactive and solution oriented, offering depth of experience to our clients in the fast-paced world of start-up accounting. This position reports to the Head of Escalon’s Tax Practice. 

A successful Fractional Tax Associate at Escalon has a high level of technical tax proficiency, a positive attitude, and a desire to grow as a professional; is self-motivated and responsible possessing strong communication, interpersonal, analytic, and time management skills; enjoys the creative aspects of our business and is driven to find the best possible outcome for our clients.

 
Day-to-Day Responsibilities also include:
• Assist with the timely and accurate preparation and filing of corporate and partnership income tax returns, including multi-state and international reporting.
• Performing tax research and working with clients on tax matters as well as planning and implementing special projects.
• Collaborate with our Tax leadership on various income tax engagements.
• Liaise with internal accounting teams on various income tax questions and requests.
• Assist with income tax estimates, projections, and other special tax projects.

What You'll Bring

 
Must Haves:
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field, and/or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years in a busy, complex tax environment.
• Proficient in tax software and Microsoft Office suite.


Nice to Haves:
• Experience with tech start up organizations preferred but will train the right person.
• Active CPA or ability to sit for the CPA exam required.

More about us:

Escalon Services is a Business Process Management (BPM) company that provides Essential Business Services (EBS) through a tech-enabled platform to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and startups. The Company enables its clients to spend less time on "back office" functions and provides the value and insight that enables clients to spend more time focusing on delivering value and moving their businesses forward. With a US-based remote workforce and global delivery team in India, Escalon’s solution fills a widening service gap in the SMB market, underpinned by (i) increasing demand for quality insights in an increasingly competitive marketplace (ii) decreasing supply of CPAs and quality in-house talent and (iii) the cost frictions associated with scaling internal back-office teams as businesses grow. For more information on Escalon: https://escalon.services/  Since founding, the company has executed both on an organic and M&A strategy to expand service offerings and drive revenue expansion opportunity through cross-sell/up-sell. Before partnering with New Harbor Capital in late 2022, Escalon completed two significant acquisitions which tripled the revenue of the company and expanded the FinOps capabilities of the platform. Continued corporate development is a key value driver for the business going forward, with a highly fragmented market of service providers, often individually unable to scale due to lack of technology-enablement and offshore capabilities. In late 2022, New Harbor Capital made a growth equity investment in Escalon Services. 
 About New Harbor Capital New Harbor Capital is an experienced, lower middle-market private equity firm that seeks to partner with growth-minded, founder-owned companies. Based out of Chicago, New Harbor Capital is committed to optimizing the growth potential of its portfolio companies while respecting their long-term visions. The firm was founded on the belief that mutual respect and collaboration lead to successful outcomes. New Harbor recognizes the importance of finding the right partner, and the firm is committed to helping its portfolio companies and their leadership maximize both personal and financial goals.  
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