Associate, Tax Provisions

About the Role

Weaver is looking for talented Tax professionals at the Associate level to join our growing firm. The candidate should be a team player who exhibits initiative, accepts responsibility, communicates effectively, and manages multiple concurrent assignments of varying sizes and complexity. This role is focused on the ASC 740 and Corporation (1120) practice. The candidate should have a strong work ethic and be a self-starter. During client and compliance deadlines, the candidate should be ready to put in extra hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand US corporate tax and work independently on Federal and state return (1120).
• Prepare supporting schedules for state income/franchise tax returns, where applicable.
• Gather and analyze client financial data (trial balances, GL details, fixed asset reports) to support tax calculations.
• Compute taxable income, NOLs, credits, and other return components in accordance with U.S. tax law.
• Identify and compute temporary and permanent differences between book and tax.
• Self-review in reconciling tax returns to financial statements and client workpapers.
• Support senior team members in identifying temporary differences and calculating deferred tax assets/liabilities.
• Assist in preparing tax provision support (current and deferred tax) under U.S. GAAP/IFRS for client financial reporting.
• Perform basic tax research on U.S. corporate tax issues (e.g., depreciation, interest limitation 163(j), NOLs, credits, 382, etc.) using standard research tools.
• Maintain, organize, and document research and findings.
• Ready to learn new concepts, especially Provision (ASC 740).

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience with major tax compliance software like GoSystem, CCH Axcess strongly preferred.
• Experience on consolidation (Large entities) is a plus.

Qualifications

• Understanding of US corporate tax.
• Ability to work independently on Federal and state return (1120).
• Ability to identify and compute temporary and permanent differences between book and tax.
• Ability to self-review in reconciling tax returns to financial statements and client workpapers.
• Ability to perform basic tax research on U.S. corporate tax issues.
• Ability to maintain, organize, and document research and findings.
• Strong work ethic.
• Self-starter.