Tax Senior Associate
St. Louis, MOFull-timePosted 3w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
CliftonLarsonAllen is seeking a Tax Senior Associate for its Heartland CLA Region. The role prepares, supervises, and reviews tax engagements for individuals, corporations, and partnerships; provides client tax advisory services; and supports engagement management and team development. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in a related field and at least two years of public accounting associate experience, along with an active CPA or EA license or eligibility to sit for the CPA exams and meet the 150-credit requirement.
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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 Senior Associate to join our Heartland CLA Region. Locations include: St. Louis, Kansas City, Peoria IL, Bloomington IL, Dixon IL, Champaign IL, Danville IL, and O'Fallon IL.
How you’ll create opportunities in this Tax Senior Associate role:
- Prepare, supervise, and review individual, C corporation, S corporation, and partnership engagements.
- Partner with clients to provide customized tax advisory services and work closely with other tax team members to identify and research complex tax issues.
- Focus on engagement management and operational excellence.
- Develop and train team members to help them build inspired careers.
- Expand your technical and professional knowledge through greater exposure to client interactions, regular self-study, and training opportunities.
- Get the opportunity to work with many great clients
What you will need:
- You have a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- You have an active CPA license (or EA for Tax positions) or are eligible to sit for the CPA exams and meet the 150-credit requirement to obtain a CPA license.
- You have at least 2 years’ experience as an associate in public accounting.
- You are looking for a firm that will support and foster your aspiring career goals.
- You jump at the chance to help others and you’re ready to join a team of high-performing people.
- You have a knack for solving issues and confidently bring solutions to the table.
- You love public accounting!
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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 5,271 open Tax Associate jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$77–151K/yr393 salary ranges
- US median$16–20/hr1,718 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 150 open Tax Associate jobs in Missouri and 5,271 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Tax Associate postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (441 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 436 of the 5,271 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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