Details
Posted: 27-Jul-22
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Type: Full Time
Preferred Education: Masters
Categories:
CPA Firm
Preferred Education:
Masters
Additional Information:
Telecommuting is allowed.
Purpose:
Pennell CPA is seeking a Principal who is high energy, detailed, and internally motivated! Successful candidates are CPA's with multiple years of experience. You will work closely with mid-market companies to provide tax, accounting, and support solutions while growing your skills and career.
Pennell is a rapidly growing firm that provides meaningful work in a fun, and team-oriented environment. We are a located in a beautiful, newly remodeled office with flexible work arrangements.
The Principal position will assist with overseeing the team to provide support; provide leadership that ensures all policies, processes, and procedures are being practiced while achieving a high level of internal and external customer service and accountability.
If you are looking for an opportunity to work with a great team and a company that values you as an individual, appreciates and rewards contributions, this may be the job for you!
Firm Responsibilities:
- Achieve performance measures as outlined in budget.
- Possesses extensive knowledge and experience with tax planning
- Review and complete the most complicated S-Corporation, C-Corporation, Partnership, Trust, and Individual tax returns efficiently.
- Identify and train key technical areas of growth and development for the team.
- Challenge the team to work towards excellence, efficiency and a high level of internal and external customer service in everything we do.
- Work in conjunction with partners to determine priorities for the team.
- Ensure adequate communication of critical information throughout the team.
- Provide ongoing informal performance reviews with each team member.
- Understand, follow, and hold the team accountable to the processes and procedures in place that ensure coordination, collaboration and success.
- Assist with sustaining a culture that is fun, healthy, vibrant, hardworking, focused and provides opportunities for growth.
- Execution of assigned projects.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Ability to promote and represent the company outside of the organization
Reports to: Partnership Team
Qualifications:
- High level of personal and professional integrity
- Experience in management and/or leadership
- Relevant certification (e.g. CMA or CPA)
- Experience with accounting software programs; QuickBooks (required), Sage, and Thomson Reuters CS Suite, preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting principles, practices, standards, laws and regulations.
- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with a diverse range of clients and employees.
- Ability to manage, train, motivate and practice accountability.
- Highly detail-oriented and organized.
- Ability to meet a constant stream of deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively with different levels of employees.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills.