Overview
This role is for a Tax Manager to join the High Net Worth (Family Wealth Services) practice group. The position oversees tax preparation and performs technical review, while advising on complex tax matters for high-net-worth individuals, related family partnerships, and trust tax returns. Responsibilities also include ensuring compliance with state and federal tax regulations, providing quarterly and year-end consulting, performing tax research, and overseeing engagements.
The Tax Manager will delegate and manage tax assignments, perform administrative duties as needed, and support, supervise, motivate, and review the work of the tax team.
Responsibilities
- Perform tax, gift, and estate planning and compliance services for individuals, family limited partnerships, and related trusts
- Continuously expand knowledge of individual, gift, trust, and estate tax and support ongoing professional development
- Develop and sustain excellent customer relationships
- Anticipate and consult on various tax matters
- Communicate engagement progress, issues, and resolutions to customers
- Monitor engagement performance, including billing and collections
- Develop and grow a business network through colleagues, referrals, potential customers, and external organizations to attract new business
- Recruit, develop, and motivate team members
- Create a collaborative environment where team members seek input and ideas from others
- Support a culture of engagement, inclusion, and accountability for the practice teams led
- Set and achieve stretch goals periodically to increase value and contribution
- Perform other duties within the scope of the practice
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Law; Master’s degree in Tax/LLM in Tax, preferred
- 5+ years of recent public accounting firm experience working with individuals, partnerships, trusts, and estates, including managing multiple projects and customer engagements
- EA License, or CPA certification required
- Project and team management skills
- Excellent communication and networking acumen
- Ability to manage and grow strong customer relationships
- Experience with tax software and technology
- Ability to multitask and demonstrate commitment to continuous learning
Compensation & Benefits
- Generous time away and paid firm holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s
- Flexible work schedules
- 16 weeks of paid maternity and adoption leave
- 8 weeks of paid parental leave
- 4 weeks of paid and caregiver leave (once eligible)
- Health and wellness benefits, including wellness coaching and mental health counseling
- One-on-one professional coaching
- Leadership and career development programs
Location
Nine offices located in the fastest growing cities in the US (exact office locations not specified).
Workplace/Physical Requirements
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Requirements
- Regularly required to remain in a stationary position
- Use hands repetitively to operate standard office equipment
- Talk or hear, both in person and by telephone
- Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
Cognitive/Mental Requirements
- Use written and oral communication skills
- Read and interpret data, information, and documents
- Observe and interpret situations
- Work under deadlines with frequent interruptions
- Interact with internal and external customers and others in the course of work