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STS Business Incentives Group Associate - Spring/Summer 2023(Bay Area)

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BDO USA, PC

BDO USA, PC

STS Business Incentives Group Associate - Spring/Summer 2023(Bay Area)

San Francisco, CA +1 location
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Summary

    BDO’s Core Purpose is Helping People Thrive Every Day. Our Core Values reflect how we manage our work, our relationships and ourselves. As an employee of the firm, you will live true to our Core Values of people first, being exceptional every day in every way, embracing change, feeling empowered through knowledge and choosing accountability. Our Core Values are the standards by which we conduct ourselves day in and day out, both internally and externally.

    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 BIG Associate, 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 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 R&D, engineering, software, manufacturing, scientific, medical, and other R&D-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 R&D-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.

    More specifically, STS BIG Associates responsibilities include, e.g.:

    • Proactively assisting in the execution of multiple client engagements

    • Collaborating with other STS BIGers in all aspects of our business, e.g., innovating; developing and implementing better strategies and processes for our services, marketing, etc.

    • Establishing effective working relationships directly with STS BIGers and our clients, internal—other BDOers—and external

    • Contributing to the development of your own and to STS BIG’s technical acumen and market prominence

    • Keeping up to date with local and national business and economic issues

    • Being actively involved in business development activities to further develop your own professional network, with BDOers and others, and to help identify and research opportunities for new and existing clients

    • Contributing to, supporting, and enhancing the culture of STS BIG, our local offices, and BDO as a globally leading professional services firm.

    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.

    Salary Range: $65,000-$110,000

    BDO Total Rewards include but encompass so much more than traditional “benefits,” such as compensation and health-related insurance (medical, dental and vision) for employees who meet eligibility requirements. Examples include, but are not limited to 12 days or more Paid Time Off annually, dependent on position, plus an additional 12 paid holidays and Parental Leave. A 401k match is offered as well as eligibility for an annual performance bonus.

    Qualifications

    Education:

    • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, required

    Experience:

    • Leadership experience, preferred

    • Accounting based internship, preferred

    Software:

    • Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, specifically advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel & intermediate knowledge of Word, preferred

    Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

    • Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm

    • Ability to work independently within a team environment and with a customer service focus

    • Superior organizational skills and project management skills required with ability to multi-task in a fast- paced, deadline-driven environment

    • Strong initiative and drive to lead while seeking opportunities to enhance and grow the BIG practice

  • Industry
    Accounting
  • Locations
    San Francisco, CA • San Jose, CA
  • About Us

    At BDO, our purpose is helping people thrive, every day. Together, we are focused on delivering exceptional and sustainable outcomes — for our people, our clients and our communities. Across the U.S., and in over 160 countries through our global organization, BDO professionals provide assurance, tax and advisory services for a diverse range of clients.