Staff Tax Accountant

**Tax Accountant (EA) \| Scottsdale, AZ, hybrid \| lead the close, own the filings, grow with the team** We are Cactus Blossom Financial, a bookkeeping, CFO, and tax firm with an office in Scottsdale, Arizona. We work with small and big growing businesses, a lot of them project based, construction and trades among them. **This is a hybrid seat and it is local.** You live in Arizona and you are in our Scottsdale office at least two days a week. The other days are yours to work from home. Most of our clients arrive nervous about their numbers. Some of them are embarrassed. Our whole reputation rests on meeting people there without judgment and walking them out to clarity. That is the job as much as the tax return is. We are hiring a **Tax Accountant** who owns tax filing end to end, reviews the financials before they reach a client, and leads our bookkeeping team. This seat reports directly to the two owners on an eight\-person team, and it carries real authority. When you say the books are ready, we back that in front of the client. What you will own * **Tax filing.** Individual, sole prop, SMLLC, S\-Corp, partnership, and multi\-entity returns, start to finish. * **Sales and TPT filings**, on the calendar and on time, every period. * **Month\-end close.** You review what the bookkeeping team produces, you assess whether the financial reports are actually accurate, and you decide when a file is ready. * **Leadership of the bookkeeping team.** You set the standard, you train against it, and you give the feedback that raises it. * **Client conversations.** You explain what the numbers mean to an owner making a decision on them, in plain language, without making them feel small. * **The systems behind all of it.** You maintain the SOPs that keep close and filing season repeatable when volume doubles. * **Our AI systems.** You work alongside them and review what they produce before any of it reaches a client. What we need from you * **Enrolled Agent, active and current. Required.** This is the floor. A CPA is welcome and we will not turn one away, and the seat is built and priced as an EA seat. * **You live in Arizona**, within commuting distance of Scottsdale, and you are in the office at least two days a week. This one is not negotiable and we will not relocate the seat. * **Hands\-on QuickBooks Online.** Files you personally carried, not exposure to the software. * **Gusto or QBO payroll experience, including 940 and 941 preparation and filing.** Required, not preferred. You have personally prepared and filed them. * **You have run a month\-end close yourself**, start to finish, and you have caught what was wrong in someone else's work before it reached a client. * **Excellent written and spoken English**, because you will write and speak to clients in our name. * **You tell people early.** When something is going to be late or wrong, we hear it from you first, while it is still fixable. * **You hold the number.** A client wanting a better