Specialty Tax Services Associate, Business Incentives Group - Summer 2025 (Bay Area)
Job Summary:
Our Specialized Tax Services (“STS”) Business Incentives Group (“BIG”) business has doubled in the last three years and tripled in the last six. STS BIG Associates have been key to our success, and they are central to our plans to continue as one of BDO’s premiere national consulting practices.
As an STS Tax Associate, Business Incentives Group, you will help achieve BDO’s core purpose-helping people thrive every day-by helping companies and individuals identify and claim government incentives designed to promote innovation and economic and job growth in the U.S. like the Research & Development (R&D) Tax Credit.
Our clients are leaders in innovation in virtually every industry, from technology, manufacturing, life sciences, and healthcare to retail, consumer products, and natural resources. As an STS BIG Associate, you will have the opportunity and charge to innovate as well, collaborating with BDOers in all of our business lines as well as with our clients’ innovation leaders, in tax, accounting, and finance, and also in their BIG, engineering, software, manufacturing, scientific, medical, and other BIG-related departments.
STS BIG’s short-term mission is to help our clients as efficiently and effectively as possible identify, document, and support on examination by tax authorities all of the BIG-related incentives to which they are legally entitled. Our longer-term goal is to develop an understanding of them as people and of all aspects of their business so that we are well positioned as their trusted advisors, as professionals who understand both their business operations and business drivers as well as how BDO can help them realize their goals.
In pursuing this mission, we are also seeking to help our STS BIG Associates become trusted advisors, ensuring they have a clear sense of the importance and responsibilities of such a role, as well as the training and opportunities to fill it.
Toward that end, STS BIG Associates pursue opportunities to enable them to gain and improve their skills in every aspect of professional service, including technical, interpersonal, oral and written communication, project management, practice management, and business development.
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Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.
California Range: $65,000 - $110,000
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $72,000 - $78,000
Washington Range: $65,000 - $110,000
Our purpose is helping people thrive, every day. Together, we are focused on delivering exceptional and sustainable outcomes and value for our people, our clients and our communities. BDO is proud to be an ESOP company, reflecting a culture that puts people first. BDO professionals provide assurance, tax and advisory services for a diverse range of clients across the U.S. and in over 160 countries through our global organization.