Nature and Scope:
The Tax & Accounting Technical Editor will serve as a subject matter expert and oversee the editorial production, from idea generation to publication. The Tax & Accounting Technical Editor will edit all content before publication to ensure written materials provide the most impact or views. The candidate will determine, analyze, choose, and perform promotional activities on various marketing platforms. Aside from continuously researching interesting editorial stories using multiple resources, the technical editor will also determine new ways of implementing editorial and content methodologies in a technology-driven environment.
This role should have a broad focus across many accounting and auditing areas, but must have a concentration in government and not-for-profit accounting and auditing.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Review, update, and revise existing Tax & Accounting course content.
- Analytical and research skills and ability to identify essential information from sources.
- Course content review and updates
- Partner with the content manager and SMEs to review written, online, and other media for quantitative and qualitative content regarding relevance, quality, and accuracy.
- Suggest improvement/additions to existing content.
- Perform product testing before the release of content for quality and technical aspects.
- Ability to work efficiently and within deadlines and communicate effectively.
- Proficiency in and familiarity with Microsoft Office 365.
- Ability to work flexibly in an agile product development environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review government and not-for-profit CPE library and recommend additions and deletions.
- Write and/or work with a SME to write and update government and not-for-profit accounting and auditing content.
- Review and update other parts of library as necessary.
- Answering content questions that come in during moderated replays of webinars.
Qualifications and Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or Business Services.
- Two or more years of experience in a CPA firm with relevant experience.
- Two or more years of experience with government and not-for-profit accounting and auditing.
- Ability to read, interpret, proof, and edit tax- and accounting-related material and write course content that students can easily grasp.
Preferred Skills
- Good public speaking and willingness to be on camera.