Corporate Tax Expert
Posted 1 Aug 2026
$100/hr
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Remote · Contract · 15 hrs/wk
Experience
4+ years
Eligibility
USA
Field
Finance & accounting
Skills
About this role
About the work We're building a high-quality library of corporate tax work products. You'll complete self-contained tax exercises from mock files (trial balances, intercompany agreements, deal documents) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.
What you'll do
- Build quarterly and annual income tax provisions under ASC 740 with current and deferred calculations and rate reconciliation.
- Prepare returns and supporting workpapers across federal, state apportionment and international regimes, and forecast cash taxes by jurisdiction.
- Produce technical computations and studies: GILTI, FDII, BEAT, Pillar Two, 163(j) limitation, and net operating loss and attribute analysis.
- Build transfer pricing master file and local file documentation with intercompany agreement and policy review.
- Work transaction tax: diligence of exposures and attributes, structuring memos, and documented tax positions including FIN 48 reserves.
You're a fit if you have
- 4+ years in corporate income tax, in-house or Big 4.
- Depth in at least one of: provision and compliance, international and transfer pricing, or M&A tax.
Nice to have
- CPA; JD or LLM in Taxation; EA; CTA. Tax equity and HLBV modeling experience.
Assessment An ASC 740 provision from a mock trial balance; a transfer pricing benchmarking memo; a deal tax structuring recommendation.
Note: this is corporate income tax. Individual return preparation, payroll tax, and sales-tax-only backgrounds are out of scope.
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