Tax Experienced Associate, Tax Credit Monetization
BDO USA Experienced Career Site Open · verified Oct 22, 2026 At a glance
Junior Tax role at BDO USA Experienced Career Site. Los Angeles · full-time · $63,000–$115,500 base.
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What you'll do
- Help deliver several client projects, identifying government incentives and preparing support for claims and tax-authority examinations
- Work with BIG colleagues to improve service strategies and processes, and contribute to new ideas
- Build working relationships with clients and BDO colleagues across teams
- Research prospective and current client opportunities and grow your professional network through business development
- Strengthen your tax-credit knowledge and keep current on local and national business and economic issues
What you bring
- A bachelor’s degree is required; accounting, tax or finance is preferred
- At least one year of related experience is required
- You bring strong writing, speaking, organization and project coordination skills for deadline-driven work
Who this fits
This junior-level role suits someone who can manage client work independently while contributing within a team. You’ll work with clients and colleagues across business lines, and the position has no supervisory responsibilities.
From the employer
Job Summary:
Our Business Incentives Group (“BIG”) business has doubled in the last three years and tripled in the last six. BIG Experienced Associates have been key to our success, and they are central to our plans to continue as one of BDO’s premiere national consulting practices.
As a Tax Experienced Associate, Business Incentives Group, you will help achieve BDO’s core purpose—helping people thrive every day—by helping companies and individuals identify and claim government incentives designed to promote innovation and economic and job growth in the U.S. Like the BIG Tax Credit.
Our clients are leaders in innovation in virtually every industry, from technology, manufacturing, life sciences, and healthcare to retail, consumer products, and natural resources. As a Tax Experienced Associate, you will have the opportunity and charge to innovate as well, collaborating with BDOers in all of our business lines as well as with our clients’ innovation leaders, in tax, accounting, and finance, and also in their BIG, engineering, software, manufacturing, scientific, medical, and other BIG-related departments.
BIG’s short-term mission is to help our clients as efficiently and effectively as possible identify, document, and support on examination by tax authorities all of the BIG-related incentives to which they are legally entitled. Our longer-term goal is to develop an understanding of them as people and of all aspects of their business so that we are well positioned as their trusted advisors, as professionals who understand both their business operations and business drivers as well as how BDO can help them realize their goals.
In pursuing this mission, we are also seeking to help our Tax Experienced Associates, Business Incentives Group become trusted advisors, ensuring they have a clear sense of the importance and responsibilities of such a role, as well as the training and opportunities to fill it.
Toward that end, Tax Experienced Associates pursue opportunities to enable them to gain and improve their skills in every aspect of professional service, including technical, interpersonal, oral and written communication, project management, practice management, and business development.
Job Duties:
- Proactively assists in the execution of multiple client engagements
- Collaborates with other BIGers in all aspects of our business, e.g., innovating; developing and implementing better strategies and processes for our services, marketing, etc.
- Establishes effective working relationships directly with BIGers and our clients, internal—other BDOers—and external
- Contributes to the development of personal and to BIG’s technical acumen and market prominence
- Keeps up to date with local and national business and economic issues
- Actively participates in business development activities to further develop your own professional network, with BDOers and others, and identifies and researches opportunities for new and existing clients
- Contributes to, supports, and enhances the culture of BIG, our local offices, and BDO as a globally leading professional services firm
- Other duties as required
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- N/A
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree, required; with a focus in Accounting, Tax, or Finance, preferred
Experience:
- One (1) or more years of prior related experience, required
License/Certifications:
- N/A
Software:
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Microsoft Word and advanced level skillset in Microsoft Excel, preferred
Language:
- N/A
Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm
- Ability to work independently within a team environment and with a customer service focus
- Superior organizational skills and project management skills required with ability to multi-task in a fast- paced, deadline-driven environment
- Strong initiative and drive to lead while seeking opportunities to enhance and grow the BIG practice
Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.
National Range: $63,000 - $115,500
Maryland Range: $63,000 - $115,500
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $63,000 - $115,500