Job Description
Elevate Your Career with Elliott Davis
At Elliott Davis, our mission is to make a positive impact on our clients, our people, and our communities. We are committed to elevating every experience through a culture of care, collaboration, and continuous growth. Guided by our core values—Do the Right Thing, Service to Others, Mutual Respect, Always Getting Better, and Quality—we create opportunities for talented professionals to thrive.
About the Opportunity
We are looking for a Tax Senior with fund partnership tax experience to work in our Alternative Investments and Private Equity Practice groups. This candidate will prepare and sometimes perform the technical review of fund partnership entities and related state filings. Tasks include the preparation of intermediate and complex level tax returns, reviewing basic engagements, as well as researching and consulting on tax matters. The Tax Senior is responsible for sustaining excellent customer relationships and supervising, motivating, and developing our tax associates to become future members of this industry group.
What You'll Do
- Prepare tax returns for private equity funds, Fund of Funds and Trader/Hedge Funds.
- Prepare and maintain partnership capital accounts and 704(b) schedules
- Review operating agreements and allocation provisions to ensure proper income allocations
- Prepare necessary foreign filings such as 1042s, 5471s, 8804 and 8865s
- Address complex areas such as carried interest and incentive allocations, tiered partnership structures, timing differences and special allocations
- Review letters of intent, purchase agreements, and other legal documentation related to tax transactions when applicable
- Continuously expanding Subchapter K knowledge and application, as well as overall professional development
- Perform complete and efficient technical reviews of fund partnership tax returns
- Gather data from customer and/or third-party sources
- Perform basic tax research to support tax return positions
- Resolve all open items/issues encountered on assigned engagements
- Actively monitor engagement economics by managing budgets and seeking efficiencies
- Direct and control concurrent assignments to successful completion
- Develop and lead associates through engagements, delegate assignments and tasks when appropriate
- Provide honest, objective, and constructive feedback in timely manner to associates
- Collaborate to identify and sell opportunities among existing customers
- Serve as a mentor and role model through active participation in firm committees, departmental matters, and events
- Active in recruitment of new and experienced associates
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in accounting, finance, must
- Significant progress toward EA License or CPA certification, preferred
- Minimum 4+ years of recent public accounting firm experience
- Experience working with private equity funds, fund of funds and hedge/trader funds (Form 1065) and dealing with Subchapter K reporting matters
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Effective analytical and problem-solving ability
- Strong time and work management skills
- Leadership and project/team management skills
- Advanced excel skills
- Knowledge of CCH Axcess is a requirement but not mandatory
- Knowledge of CaseWare is preferred but not required
Why Join Us?
- Collaborative, people-first culture focused on professional development.
- Exposure to complex alternative investment and private equity structures.
- Opportunities to build deep expertise in partnership taxation and Subchapter K.
- Career advancement and leadership opportunities.
- Hybrid work flexibility after onboarding and training period.
NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing need of the organization.