Tax Principal or Signing Director - Connecticut
West Hartford, CTFull-time$150–400K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed today
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CliftonLarsonAllen is seeking a Tax Principal or Signing Director for a Connecticut office. The role leads tax and industry professionals, oversees client services and deliverables, develops client relationships and new business, and contributes at a high level through advisory, service advocacy, and leadership. Candidates need an accounting, taxation, or related degree, current CPA licensure (with JD or EA potentially accepted instead), and at least 10 years of public accounting tax experience.
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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.
CLA is currently seeking a Tax Principal or Signing Director to join one of our Connecticut offices. The Principal/Signing Director contributes at the highest level in their industry and excels at client advisory, service advocacy, relationship development, and leadership.
How you'll create opportunities in this Tax Principal role:
- Lead a team of tax and industry professionals to deliver tax compliance and consulting services, including mentoring the team to get to know and help their clients by developing a deep understanding of their businesses and delivering the firm’s services to fully meet client’s needs.
- Assume full responsibility for all services for clients in a book of business.
- Review and sign engagement letters, discuss the nature and terms of assignments with clients and staff, and approve fees.
- Review and approve work papers and tax returns prepared by staff.
- Review and sign client deliverables.
- Keep current on tax law changes.
- Actively develop new business and expand services to existing clients.
- Demonstrate commitment to the firm through a willingness to devote time to the practice.
What you will need:
- Bachelor’s or master’s in accounting, Taxation or related field
- Current CPA licensure required. (JD or EA may be accepted in lieu of CPA).
- 10+ years of public accounting experience in a tax role with a public accounting and/or professional services firm
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 the position of pay within the range.
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 New Jersey is: $150,00 - $400,000
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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 917 open Tax jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–400K/yr
- Connecticut median$93–191K/yr25 salary ranges
- US median$99–205K/yr718 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $275K, is 89% above the Connecticut median midpoint ($146K) — in the top quarter of Tax salary ranges in Connecticut.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 25 open Tax jobs in Connecticut and 917 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Tax postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 773 postings).
- Education
- 735 of the 917 open Tax jobs (80%) 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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