Tax Senior Associate

Pelican3 Consulting is a tech-driven CPA firm where accounting expertise meets cybersecurity, automation, and AI. We are looking for a Tax Senior Associate with 2 to 4 years of public accounting experience to join our Jupiter, FL office and grow with a firm that builds its own tools and refuses to do things the old way just because that is how they have always been done.

What you will do:

• Prepare and review federal and state income tax returns for individuals, S corporations, partnerships, and C corporations (1040, 1120-S, 1065, 1120)
• Handle multi-state filings and research state and local tax questions as our clients expand
• Review work prepared by associates, provide coaching feedback, and take first-pass responsibility for return quality
• Communicate directly with clients to gather information, resolve open items, and explain results in plain language
• Support tax planning engagements, projections, and quarterly estimates for business owners
• Work alongside our advisory and technology teams to automate repetitive parts of the tax process, and bring your own ideas for what should be automated next

What we are looking for:

• 2 to 4 years of recent tax experience in public accounting
• CPA license, or EA with active progress toward the CPA
• Solid grounding in pass-through entity taxation and individual returns; exposure to multi-state work is a plus
• Comfort with modern tax software and a genuine interest in technology. You do not need to code, but you should be the kind of person who asks why a manual process still exists
• Clear written and verbal communication. You will talk to clients, not just spreadsheets
• Organized, deadline-reliable, and honest about what you do not know yet

Why Pelican3:

• We live our RISE values: Resilience, Innovation, Selflessness, Excellence
• Small-firm ownership of your work with technology a large firm would envy
• Direct access to partners and a real path to manager
• Jupiter office with a collaborative, low-ego team