Tax Professional Assistant / Farm Financial Assistant

Role overview: Collaborate with Farm Financial Consultants on client tax returns, financial analyses, cash flows, and depreciation schedules. Build and review client accounting records and learn to identify what is missing before it becomes a larger problem. Join client meetings across Nebraska to observe how consultants explain financial details to farm families. Increase the portion of work handled independently as experience builds. Represent NFBI at trade shows and producer meetings in the ag community. Location, schedule, and pay Location: Lincoln, NE (onsite)

Employment type: Full-time, hourly

Pay: $27.00 - $28.50 per hour (about $56,000 - $59,000 per year at straight time) Overtime: Time and a half, with regular overtime November through April

Work location: In person What you would bring A degree in ag economics, agribusiness, accounting, finance, or business, or real experience in tax preparation, agricultural lending, or farm and ranch bookkeeping. Attention to detail. Excel comfort. A valid driver's license. The ability to keep a confidence absolutely. Ag literacy: knowing a cow from a bull, what a combine does, and that a chopper is not a helicopter. Tools Excel

Benefits: Overtime at time and a half, with regular overtime November through April SIMPLE retirement plan: NFBI matches your payroll contribution up to 3% of wages Paid time off, including paid sick leave and holidays Flexible Spending Accounts for medical and daycare expenses using pre-tax dollars Annual profit sharing Paid continuing education every year, plus the national conference of the Farm Business Analysis Specialists Mileage reimbursement for client travel 401(k) matching Paid continuing education and annual conference support Expect the year to change November through April is the busy stretch. Once harvest wraps and tax planning starts, clients are nearly every day and travel increases. Summers are calmer and more predictable, with fewer day-to-day pressures. Travel typically runs about 10 to 20 overnight nights per year, mostly November, January, and March, plus a national conference each June.