We’re the premier, remote accounting, tax, and consulting firm built exclusively to serve the craft brewing industry.

Our mission is to help craft breweries grow profits and build deep, successful relationships. Our team is filled with expert, autonomous, adaptable, technology-driven high performers.

Are you up for the challenge?

We’re looking for a full-time, remote Brewery Tax Associate to join our specialized team. The main objective of this role is to support the day-to-day administrative and organizational responsibilities required for our Brewery Tax Team to operate effectively in accordance with SBS Core Values.

About The Role

This role will report to our Brewery Tax Manager and is accountable for fulfilling the following responsibilities:

Support business and personal tax return service delivery for our brewery clients. In the primary function of this role, you’ll work hand-in-hand with our Brewery Tax Manager and Specialists to ensure a clearly communicated, organized, precise, and comprehensive delivery of our clients’ tax needs. This will include focused periods of client communication, tax document collection, and organization, as well as tax software return preparation work (Ultratax, Workpapers CS). You’ll also support the team with research and administrative tasks to enhance our overall tax program.
Preparation of Business Tangible Personal Property Tax Returns. You will collaborate with the Brewery Tax Manager and Specialists to prepare Business Tangible Personal Property Tax Return filings for our brewery clients, ensuring accurate and timely submissions.
Run and contribute to Projects. You’ll have the opportunity to either run your own projects or join existing projects as a contributing team member, aimed at advancing the company’s mission outside of your regular responsibilities.
Participate in ongoing process improvement. Every member of our team is expected to identify and address inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement, actively contributing to refining our processes in alignment with our mission.
Contribute to the overall success of our company. In addition to your specific role, you’ll be an integral part of the team, supporting the company in achieving its broader mission through teamwork and collaboration.

About You

We’re looking for an individual who:

Enjoys a structured and detail-oriented workflow. You’ll thrive in an environment with consistent, ongoing tasks and take pride in ensuring accurate, timely tax filings and reports for our clients.
Embraces technology and continuous learning. Whether you’re new to tax work or looking to expand your skills, you’re eager to learn, adapt to new tools, and refine your knowledge and processes as you grow in the role.
Is an organized self-starter and team player. You excel at managing your own tasks independently while also contributing meaningfully to team projects and discussions.

About Our Culture

We’re fully remote, with team members and clients located all across the U.S. and have developed our own unique culture we call The SBS Way, within which we operate, evaluate performance, and make decisions using our core values as a guide:

Be Antifragile. Everything we do, good or bad, makes us better. And every experience is an opportunity for learning and continuous improvement.
Play The Long Game. We make decisions, to the best of our ability, in the long-term interest of our firm, our team, our clients, and our broader industry and community.
Embrace Technology. We welcome new technologies with open arms, and are always exploring, testing, and implementing them in the interest of enhancing both our internal capabilities and our client’s outcomes.
Build and Trust The Process. Each member of the team is committed to building, following, and improving the processes we use to deliver exceptional results for our clients.
Act as A Team of Expert Knowledge Workers. We openly and willingly collaborate, communicate, and provide rapid, direct feedback in the interest of learning, improving and developing ourselves.

Working At SBS

What it’s like working at our firm:

High flexibility. We believe in the ability of our team to determine the best way to complete their work. We measure outputs, not inputs. We don’t have time sheets. We don’t track hours. We don’t pay attention to when and where our team works. Your schedule is yours to make.
High accountability. What we care about most is that we deliver on what we promise to our clients. In this respect, we measure and manage to our deliverable performance metrics and ensure each team member takes ownership over their accomplishment with a high level of quality that aligns with our core values
Great pay for great work. We pay based on the characteristics that matter: position (and its market value), level of mastery, and longevity with the firm. All of which aim to ensure each member of the team feels they are compensated well and can focus on great work.
Performance Bonuses. In addition to the base salary compensation for each role, individuals who go above and beyond to achieve a higher level of productivity and contribution to our goals are encouraged to participate in our performance bonus incentive.
Merit-based career progression. We have clearly established career tracks, performance benchmarks, and mastery levels set for all of our core positions. How quickly you progress is entirely under your control, with a quarterly review and bi-annual promotion consideration cycle in place to evaluate your progress.
Generous benefits. We offer a generous benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance enrollment; as well as an IRA match, tech stipend, 3 weeks of paid time off, parental leave, and entry into our profit share bonus program after two years of service.
Personal and and team development. In addition to our overall continuous learning focus, we also provide support for personal development in the form of expense coverage for continuing education (books, courses, training, certifications, etc.) as well as experiential learning (brewery visits, industry events and conferences, etc.). Each year we also meet in person for an all-expenses-paid annual retreat as a team. No work. Lots of fun. Lots of client beer.

Job Requirements

The following basic requirements must be met:
Previous experience in a tax support or administrative role.
Familiarity with tax preparation and bookkeeping.
Comfortable working remotely and communicating with clients.
Proficiency with QuickBooks, Fixed Assets CS, and Google Suite.
Available during normal business hours (9am-5pm Eastern Time, Monday-Friday).
Strong internet connection and a conducive work environment for video calls.
Availability to work up to an additional 10-15 hours per week during the February 1st to April 15th tax busy season*

*This additional time worked would be returned to the tax associate over the summer through our Tax Season Fextime Policy.

Preferred qualifications include:

Direct experience with tax return preparation (Forms 1120, 1120S, 1065, 1040) and familiarity with tax software.
Experience interacting with clients in a tax or customer service setting.
Familiarity with platforms like Workpapers CS, Fixed Assets CS, and remote project management tools.

Next Steps

If this role and our culture resonate with you, we encourage you to follow the application instructions provided.