Employment Opportunities

Job Title: Property Tax Consultant

Location: San Antonio, Texas

Travel Required: Yes

Position Type: Full-Time

Job Description:

Role and Responsibilities

• Property Tax Consultant covering multiple Texas counties for Commercial, Residential and Agricultural Properties.
• Analyze property tax appeal information and prepare evidence for valuation, ag and other exemption denial protest hearings.
• Research market data and sales and maintain our internal sales database.
• Work with various county appraisal districts to negotiate client values and appear before the Appraisal Review Board as required.
• Provide excellent customer service to existing and potential clients with prompt, concise communication.

Preferred Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, with concentration in business, real estate, finance, accounting, or economics.
• Property Tax Consultant license, General Certified Appraiser or Registered Professional Appraiser.
• Five years’ experience as a Property Tax Consultant, Registered Professional Appraiser, or licensed fee appraiser.
• Effective oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate clearly, effectively, and persuasively.
• Work independently and demonstrate initiative to accomplish goals.
• Strong problem solving and investigative skills.
• Time management skills and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Overnight travel is possible.

Job Title: Database Associate

Location: San Antonio, Texas

Position Type: Full-Time

Job Description:

Role and Responsibilities

The Database Associate will coordinate through the Vice President to ensure procedures promoting efficiency are followed. The database associate is responsible for keeping the database up to date with client account information.

The associate will be responsible for generating reports used to file all property valuation tax protests in a timely manner. Additionally, the associate will be responsible for ensuring reports used for management, client letters reporting results, billing, past due notices, etc. are managed in a concise, professional manner.

• Create and generate new reports and/or letters as required
• Edit existing reports and/or letters as required
• Prepare client property reports for filing valuation protests in a timely manner on strict, short deadlines
• Prepare letters to clients regarding valuation protests, billing, and requests for property information
• Keep client information updated in the database
• Transfer appraisal district supplied electronic data to Access database
• Verify outdated data and make necessary changes to client records
• Search for and investigate information contained in files
• Perform regular database backups to secure data
• Input text-based and numerical information from source documents
• Provide occasional administrative support

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (Accounting, Computer Science, or 2 Years at College or a Technical or Vocational School business-related field preferred, but not required)
• Must be proficient in Access and MS Office
• Ability to build or edit reports and letters in Access
• Ability to prioritize work loads
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Operate common office equipment, like scanners and printers
• Sort, organize and file hard copies of paperwork after entering data electronically
• Review data for deficiencies or errors
• Assist with special projects requiring enormous amounts of data entry
• Provide data entry support across departments on an ad-hoc basis
• Input data quickly and efficiently
• Work closely with upper management
• Strong writing, research, and communication skills
• Ability to multitask while meeting tight deadlines
• Strong people skills
• Knowledge of office management responsibilities, systems, and procedures
• Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize work
• Attention to detail and critical thinking skills
• Experience in the Property Tax, Appraisal or Real Estate fields is preferred.
• Perform other duties as assigned