Each of DMA’s diverse practice areas offers unique entry-level opportunities. Explore the practice areas below to view some of the entry-level positions and short descriptions of what the position entails. Once you have identified a role or practice area you’re excited about, click the button to explore the current job openings.
Property Tax
east
Administrative Assistant
The Administrative Assistant plays a pivotal role in ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the property tax team. This position involves managing critical administrative tasks such as document preparation, client data organization, and communication with assessors and tax collectors. If you excel at scheduling meetings, preparing comprehensive reports, coordinating travel arrangements, and providing essential support to leadership during assessment reviews, all while contributing to a smoothly operating team environment—this is the job for you!
Tax Analyst
The Tax Analyst is a key support role within our property tax team, focused on achieving maximum tax savings for our clients. This position involves meticulous data collection and organization, effective communication with assessors and tax collectors, and various administrative tasks to ensure efficient team operations. This role would be a great fit for anyone interested in assisting with preparing reports, processing financial reductions, and managing essential client data, contributing significantly to our consulting services.
Associate Tax Consultant
The Associate Tax Consultant plays a vital role in supporting our team with real estate and business personal property assessment reviews, aiming to maximize tax savings for our clients. This position involves preparing detailed reports and analyses, representing clients during appeals and hearings, and identifying tax savings opportunities. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with senior consultants while also handling some responsibilities independently, ensuring comprehensive and effective tax consulting services. If you enjoy a healthy balance of independence and teamwork, this role is a perfect fit for you.
Property Tax Assistant
The Property Tax Assistant provides administrative support to the personal property tax compliance team by assisting with data entry, filing, preparing tax renditions, contacting external parties to collect information, and several other key functions. Are you team-oriented, thorough, organized, and possess strong time management skills? Property Tax Assistant is the job for you!
Associate Analyst
The Associate Analyst will analyze property tax data, prepare returns for existing clients, communicate with taxing jurisdictions, prepare tax payments, prepare funding requests, and more. You might be interested in this position if you are a self-starter with strong organization, time management, and communication skills.
Business License Assistant
This role provides comprehensive support to Business License Analysts and departmental leadership. This includes tasks such as data entry, managing correspondence, file management, and coordinating with stakeholders for various administrative needs. Additionally, the role supports ongoing compliance efforts and assists with special projects and client-specific tasks as required. Looking to start your career in corporate tax compliance? This role would be an ideal first step.
Associate Business License Specialist
This role provides a foundational understanding of the systems and processes of DMA’s business license team. You’ll support DMA’s low-complexity clients by managing business license renewals, maintaining information databases, and resolving a variety of issues with licensing jurisdictions. Responsibilities also include researching licensing requirements for new client locations, preparing applications, processing funding requests, submitting applications and payments in a timely manner, and preparing client billings. If you are punctual, prompt, and love to dive deep into research—this role might be a great fit!
Transaction Tax
east
Administrative Assistant
The Administrative Assistant position plays a crucial role in supporting the transaction tax leadership team with a range of administrative and secretarial tasks. If you thrive working independently, are highly organized, adept at multitasking, and have strong communication and interpersonal skills, then this position is a perfect match.
Compliance Assistant
The Compliance Assistant supports the transaction tax compliance team by handling online filing, preparing check requests, backend reporting, resolving notices, and maintaining client tax information. If you excel in communication, have a sharp eye for detail, and possess strong organizational and prioritization skills, this is the position for you.
Compliance Analyst
The Compliance Analyst position plays a key role on our transaction tax compliance team. In this position, you’ll have the opportunity to process multi-state transaction tax returns, resolve notices, and handle monthly reporting. If you thrive in a deadline-driven environment, enjoy working with Microsoft Excel, and have top-notch organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills, this role could be a fantastic opportunity for you.
Implementation Analyst
The Implementation Analyst position supports the transaction tax compliance function by helping with new client implementations and data processing. If you thrive in Microsoft Excel, enjoy identifying patterns and solving problems, and possess strong verbal and written communication skills, this position could be a great fit for you.
Tax Analyst
The Tax Analyst position involves supporting team members with the monthly transaction tax refund claim filing process, conducting tax research, following up on refunds, and handling additional refund claim projects. If you excel both independently and as part of a team, have a keen eye for detail, strong analytical skills, and possess excellent communication skills, this role could be a great opportunity for you.
Associate Tax Consultant
The Associate Tax Consultant position plays a key role in supporting our transaction tax team members. You’ll dive into overpayment and audit reviews, tax research, data analysis, and diverse consulting projects, all aimed at maximizing tax savings for our clients, including numerous Fortune 1000 companies. If you’re a problem solver with strong communication skills who thrives both independently and in a team, this could be a great fit for you.
Tax Technology
east
Analyst
The Analyst position plays a crucial role in supporting our managed tax services team by handling tasks such as exemption certificate management, tax engine maintenance and troubleshooting, tax systems and integration management, and tax data automation and reporting. If you have exceptional interpersonal skills, strong prioritization abilities, and excellent time management, then this position is for you.
Associate Consultant
The Associate Consultant position focuses on building product knowledge, consulting skills, and implementation proficiency to assist tax technology team members with providing our clients access to our expertise in tax processes and enabling technologies. If you excel at strategic thinking, problem-solving, and have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, this role is a great match for you.
Analyst, Unclaimed Property
The Unclaimed Property Analyst position supports our unclaimed property team by providing administrative assistance, analyzing and entering data, generating due diligence letters, managing owner responses and mailings, and helping prepare jurisdictional unclaimed property reports seasonally. If you are deadline-driven, excel in time management, and have excellent communication and adaptability skills, this position is your chance to make an impact.
State Income & Franchise Tax
east
Associate Tax Consultant
The Associate Tax Consultant supports the entire state income & franchise tax practice with entering corporate and partnership returns, ensuring accurate application of federal and state-specific details for income and franchise tax returns. You’ll analyze and prepare state and local income and franchise tax returns for the appropriate year, and assist with research and additional projects. If you excel both independently and as part of a team, have strong problem-solving and organization skills, and excel in communication, this role could be a great opportunity for you.
Business Development
east
Associate, Practice Development
The Associate, Practice Development partners with the business development team to schedule prospective client meetings, create a positive first impression of DMA, and drive new clients to DMA by identifying and understanding prospective client needs, matching them to the applicable DMA services and solutions. This role will work with select DMA client accounts, the national business development team, marketing, and other DMA business leaders to manage and grow opportunities within a designated market/region to achieve sales objectives. If you are good communicating with clients and love to work on a team, sales may be a great career for you.
Corporate Functions
east
Accounting Associate
The Accounting Associate will assist with various tasks in our corporate accounting department. Some of these tasks include processing payments, generating checks, month-end closing activities, following up on due invoices, applying cash receipts, running reports, and more. You may be a perfect fit for this opportunity if you have strong attention to detail, organization, communication, and time management skills.
Associate Software Engineer
The Associate Software Engineer will be responsible for maintenance and enhancements to existing software solutions and websites, assisting with the implementation of more optimized and efficient processes, aiding with diagnosing and triaging issues with software, assisting with sprint planning sessions, and more. If you have a fundamental understanding of development principles coupled with a strong desire to learn, the Associate Software Engineer job is a great place to start your career!
Associate Application Support
The Associate Application Support position provides an opportunity to become a valued team member and be exposed to all aspects of DMA’s business. For an individual starting a career, the position offers the opportunity to learn about all aspects of software development, including quality assurance, development, support, and project management. Primary responsibilities include client-related support, maintenance and enhancements to existing software solutions and websites, and assisting with implementing more optimized and efficient processes. This is a great entry point for those looking for a software support career.
Associate IT Support
The Associate IT Support will be primarily responsible for internal employee application support, workstation/laptop/phone support, and first responder to support requests. The Associate IT Support will assist with inventory management and is responsible for monitoring, reviewing, prioritizing, and delegating help desk requests and providing end-user problem resolution. Are you passionate about solving technological problems? This job is perfect for you.
Associate QA Engineer
The Associate QA Engineer will be responsible for testing software solutions. The role is to support software development through planning, designing, developing, and executing various software quality processes. If you have technical skills, including the ability to create, document, and execute test strategies and test plans—you will excel on this career path.
Management Trainee Program
DMA’s Management Trainee program in corporate tax compliance offers exceptional individuals the opportunity to have an accelerated career path to management by participating in a vigorous three- to five-year program.
Employees are evaluated on their progress throughout the program and earn internal program certification for each phase completed.
In the program, you will:
- Learn the basics about our compliance practice and specialize in one area, becoming a subject matter expert
- Work closely with department directors, VPs, and senior management
- Participate in quarterly reviews and self-assessments
- Be mentored for a future management position
Upon successful completion of the self-paced program, you can find leadership opportunities and future management positions within our property tax, transaction tax, and business license compliance practices.
Applications and the interview process for the Management Trainee Program take place in the fall semester with a targeted start date in the summer, post graduation. Graduating seniors with Bachelor or Master degree are preferred.
Your Future
Starts Here
We believe that to create a strong team, we must begin by teaching, mentoring, and coaching those interested in starting a professional career in corporate tax consulting. DMA offers an inclusive, growth-focused, challenging, and rewarding work environment—not to mention a full benefits package too!
Our team is here to help answer any questions you may have and to help you determine which opportunity may be the best fit for your career development. Email our recruitment team at careers@dmainc.com with the practice area and position you’re interested in, along with a copy of your resume.
Your future starts with DMA, and we look forward to collaborating and working with you.