At a Glance
- Tasks: Review and prepare cross-border tax returns, mentor junior staff, and manage client relationships.
- Company: Boutique cross-border tax firm in Kitsilano, specializing in US and Canadian personal tax.
- Benefits: Flexible hours, competitive salary, profit-based bonuses, health benefits, and hybrid work model.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities for mentorship and professional growth.
- Why this job: Gain control over your time and files while making a real impact on clients' lives.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in cross-border tax, CPA/EA designation, strong communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 82800 - 101200 $ per year.
Full-time / permanent Hybrid in-office + remote (after initial training period) Start date: Flexible
About us
We’re a boutique cross-border tax firm in Kitsilano, near Granville Island, specializing in US and Canadian personal tax for US citizens resident in Canada. If you’re doing excellent work at a larger firm but want more control of your time, more ownership of your files, and direct client relationships — without the bureaucracy — this role is built for you.
The role
Working alongside our senior staff, you’ll review the US and Canadian cross-border personal tax work prepared by our team, prepare the most complicated files we have, own the technical quality of what goes out the door, resolve the hard cross-border questions, and mentor our junior staff. You’ll manage your own portfolio of client relationships and help shape how the practice runs.
What you’ll do
- Review and prepare Canadian (T1), US (Form 1040), FBARs and state personal returns and supporting working papers for technical accuracy and completeness, and sign off on quality
- Act as the technical go-to on cross-border individual issues — residency and treaty positions, foreign information reporting (Forms 3520/3520-A, 8938, 5471, FBAR), PFICs, GILTI, cross-border pensions and registered accounts, and foreign tax credits
- Manage client relationships and lead correspondence with the CRA and IRS, including Notices of Assessment, review letters, and voluntary disclosures
- Mentor and train junior staff; write clear review notes and help build internal standards and processes
- Own filing deadlines and extensions across your portfolio
Required qualifications & skills
- You must have 5 or more years of experience working for a cross-border tax firm
- You need to know more about US and Canadian taxes than our less senior staff
- CPA (Canada or US) and/or EA designation
- Able to independently review both US (Form 1040 + state) and Canadian (T1) personal returns
- Excellent written and verbal communication — able to explain and defend positions to clients and tax authorities
- Sound judgment — able to use AI tools critically, applying their strengths without being led into errors
Nice to have
- Experience reviewing corporate, partnership, trust, estate, information returns and elections
- Working knowledge of TaxPrep and CCH ProSystem fx
Why you’ll want this role
- Control of your time — flexible, negotiable hours outside the busy season; you shape your own schedule
- Real ownership of your files and client relationships, without big firm layers of bureaucracy
- Expect to work 48–55 hours/week from March 1 – June 15.
- Competitive salary, plus a firm profit-based bonus and overtime pay for overtime work
- Extended health and dental benefits
- Hybrid model (minimum 2 days/week in office once established)
- On-site parking
We welcome applicants of all backgrounds. You must be eligible to work in Canada.
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