Job Title: Accountant
Location: Rockville, MD (Remote)
Employment Type: Temp (12 months)
Industry: Aerospace and Defense
Compensation: $23.57 /hr.
Schedule: 40 hrs/Week.
About the Opportunity:
- The expatriate tax accountant will manage inquiries and metrics from the global mobility team, employees on international assignments (expatriates), and business units.
- The accountant will also be responsible for the administration associated with an expatriate tax operation, including developing and maintaining metrics, lists, and databases for tax services and frequent business travellers.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
This role offers the opportunity to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while providing you with room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider- we help companies compete for talent. With experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and design talent solutions that deliver the business outcomes they want. We draw on decades of experience to provide contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- The tax accountant provides guidance, coaching, and education to expatriates, stakeholders, and business unit managers about the Corporate's expatriate tax program, explaining tax equalization policies and procedures, resolving cases, and working with the Corporate's tax assistance firm to complete tax equalization settlements.
- The accountant will investigate compensation discrepancies and decide on a resolution.
- Provide updates to financial reports and process vendor invoices and statuses via email.
- Great customer service and interpersonal skills are critical and constantly in use when working with our expatriate population to provide education and understanding of foreign taxes.
- We have a team approach to provide high-quality service for expatriate tax compliance, planning, and general business operations.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Business or Global Management.
- 2+ years of experience in PowerPoint and Excel, including VLOOKUP, to provide and maintain monthly metrics.
- 2+ years of experience with individual income tax returns.
- 2+ years of experience in performing, compiling, and analyzing compensation data and tasks accurately.
- 2+ years of experience with payroll and accounts receivable.
- 2+ years of experience in MS Excel, data analytics, metrics, pivot and V-Lookup tables, and critical follow-through to closure.
What Sets You Apart:
- Problem-solving abilities, a high level of attention to detail, and good written and oral communication skills.
- The ability to accurately calculate, record, manage payments/ amounts owed, reconcile, and post to individual employee files.
- Comprehensive knowledge of accounting, taxation principles, and guidelines.
- The ability to handle a fast-paced environment and multitask with a large volume of data and complete repetitive tasks to closure.
- Audit experience
- High proficiency and advanced skills in Excel and pivot tables to analyze large amounts of data.
- Ability to work as a great team player in a fast-paced team environment and multitask numerous projects.
- Have excellent customer service, written, and oral communication skills.
- Good attention to detail, logical and methodological, with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- The keen ability to follow through with assignments/tasks to closure is critical.
- Ability to work well independently, but function within a team environment.
- Proven ability to recognize potential issues.
- Experience in problem-solving activities such as reporting and escalating issues to work with the employee and stakeholders to closure and resolution.
- Ability to create metrics on work activities.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
- In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
- Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), all employees assigned to this client must provide documentation verifying their status as a 'U.S. Person', as defined in ITAR clause 120.15. A U.S. Person is a protected individual under the anti-discrimination provisions of U.S. immigration laws.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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May 13, 2026