Tax Associate
Rochester, MNFull-time$54–93K/yrPosted 4 days agoStill listed today
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CliftonLarsonAllen is hiring an Experienced Tax Associate to serve clients in its Southern Minnesota offices. The associate prepares and reviews tax returns, responds to routine client tax questions, gathers information for tax compliance, and completes tax research and special projects. The role also includes preparing simple returns, training interns, and helping clients resolve complex issues. A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field is required; CPA status or exam eligibility is preferred.
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Full job description
CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.
CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.
CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP is hiring an Experienced Tax Associate to service clients in our Southern Minnesota offices. Locations include: Mankato, Austin, New Ulm, Owatonna and Rochester.
How you’ll create opportunities in this Experienced Tax Associate role:
- Prepare and review tax returns with the tax team. Handle routine client tax questions and work with client to collect necessary information for tax return completion and compliance.
- Complete tax-related research and special projects as needed.
- Have the ability to prepare simple tax returns.
- Develop and train team interns to help them build inspired careers.
- Work with many great clients to help them resolve complex issues and get results.
What you'll need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field is required.
- Current CPA or eligibility to sit for the CPA exam is preferred.
- 1 year of relevant experience preferred (prior experience via internship(s) may be acceptable).
- Ability to travel to client sites
Our approach to compensation emphasizes collaboration and career growth. We pay competitive wages and view compensation as an investment in our people. Factors such as geography, experience, education, skills and knowledge may impact position of pay within the range.
The compensation range for this position in Minnesota is: $53,700.00 - $93,000.00
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Wellness at CLA To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.
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How this job compares
Set against the 5,220 open Tax Associate jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$54–93K/yr
- Minnesota median$76–133K/yr22 salary ranges
- US median$77–159K/yr354 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $73K, is 29% below the Minnesota median midpoint ($103K) — in the lowest quarter of Tax Associate salary ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 106 open Tax Associate jobs in Minnesota and 5,220 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Tax Associate postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 407 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 394 of the 5,220 open Tax Associate jobs (8%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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