Senior - Accounting Methods
Minneapolis, MNFull-time$74–131K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed today
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CLA is seeking a Senior – Accounting Methods to join its Federal Tax Strategies team. The team advises clients on tax strategies involving the timing and character of income, expenses, capitalization, and cost recovery, including procedural implementation such as Form 3115 filings. The role involves accounting methods consulting, tax research, project collaboration, and mentoring staff. A bachelor’s degree and two years of relevant experience are required; CPA exam eligibility and several types of experience are preferred.
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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 growing and seeking to hire a Senior – Accounting Methods to join our talented Federal Tax Strategies team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment. The Accounting Methods team specializes in tax strategies involving the timing and character of income, expense, capitalization, and cost recovery to meet tax objectives. The team serves clients by determining optimal tax treatment for items and establishing and executing on procedural processes (such as Form 3115 filings) to implement strategies. The team is known for its agility in researching and navigating new or complex tax issues to create opportunities.
In this position you should have the following: excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.
How you’ll create opportunities in this Senior – Accounting Methods role:
- Consult on accounting methods-related issues including automatic and non-automatic accounting methods changes including overall methods, revenue & expense recognition, inventory, capitalization, cost recovery and accounting periods.
- Conduct research related to accounting methods tax issues to maintain and expand your knowledge base.
- Participate and collaborate in accounting methods projects, including client interviews, reviewing client data, preparing calculations, analysis, and preparing supporting tax form filings.
- Collaborate with managers, directors and principals, including industry leaders and other marketing and business personnel throughout the Firm.
- Coach or mentor staff to assist with enhancing their skills and further developing their career.
- Demonstrate ability to contribute to multiple projects simultaneously in an effective and reliable manner.
What you will need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required
- 2 years of relevant experience required
- Eligible to sit for CPA exam preferred
- Experience in business services, public accounting or consulting preferred
- Experience in accounting methods preferred
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel and Access preferred
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 California is: $87,000.00 – $146,000.00 The compensation range for this position in Illinois is: $74,000.00 – $131,000.00 The compensation range for this position in Massachusetts is: $87,000.00 – $141,000.00 The compensation range for this position in Minnesota is: $74,000.00 – $126,000.00 The compensation range for this position in New York is: $96,000.00 – $146,000.00 The compensation range for this position in Viginia is: $93,000.00 – $141,000.00 The compensation range for this position in Washington is: $80,000.00 – $136,000.00
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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 1,019 open Tax Consultant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$74–131K/yr
- Minnesota median$99–181K/yr28 salary ranges
- US median$93–181K/yr916 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $103K, is 26% below the Minnesota median midpoint ($139K) — in the lowest quarter of Tax Consultant salary ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Tax Consultant jobs in Minnesota and 1,019 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Tax Consultant postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 940 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 935 of the 1,019 open Tax Consultant jobs (92%) 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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