Tax Senior Manager - Commercial

Overview

This role supports the tax leadership team by working with tax professionals across multiple markets to help clients identify and achieve strategic goals through proactive, innovative, and future-oriented service. Responsibilities include technical tax review, client advisory, engagement performance monitoring, and people leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop and sustain excellent client relationships with dynamic companies and their various stakeholders
• Perform technical reviews of tax returns and tax provisions with varying complexity
• Identify and recommend solutions to complex client issues
• Monitor economic performance of engagements, including billing and collections
• Recruit, develop, and motivate team members, creating pools of ready-now leaders
• Collaborate cross-functionally within the organization to grow existing business and offer a variety of business solutions to clients and prospects
• Develop and grow a business network with colleagues, referral relationships, potential customers, and external organizations to attract new business

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; Masters in Tax preferred; or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• 7+ years of recent public accounting firm and/or relevant industry experience, with an emphasis on corporate tax work, including experience with consolidated tax returns, multi-state taxpayers, and taxpayers with international activity
• Experience servicing clients across multiple industries, with a preference for familiarity with manufacturers and distributors
• Experience developing team members, assigning projects, and managing workflow
• CPA certification
• Proven leadership and project/team management skills
• Excellent communication and networking acumen
• Ability to manage and grow strong customer relationships with various ownership groups (closely-held; publicly traded; PE-owned), coupled with a growth-oriented mindset
• Experience with tax software and technology

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters in Tax
• Familiarity with manufacturers and distributors

Compensation & Benefits

Benefits and time-off include:

• 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)
• First-class health and wellness benefits, including wellness coaching and mental health counseling
• One-on-one professional coaching
• Leadership and career development programs
• Access to Beyond: a one-of-a-kind program with experiences that help you expand your life, personally and professionally

Location

Not specified in the provided description. (The organization operates nine offices across the US.)

Reasonable Accommodation / ADA Requirements

• The physical and cognitive/mental requirements and the work environment characteristics described are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the role.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Requirements

The employee is 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
• Have specific vision abilities, including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Cognitive/Mental Requirements

The employee is regularly required to:

• 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