Overview
This role supports Accounting Compliance & Reporting (ACR) engagements focused on helping clients manage global bookkeeping and finance compliance obligations proactively across 150+ countries. The ACR practice supports efforts to reduce inefficiencies, mitigate risk, and drive process improvement within clients’ global finance operations.
Responsibilities
As a Tax Senior Services Manager, you will work on engagements spanning 100+ countries and coordinate with global and local teams to support finance compliance and reporting deliverables, including:
- Manage and deliver timely, high-quality services and work products that meet or exceed client expectations, including daily communication with local ACR teams to ensure contracted services are delivered on time and accurately.
- Validate and support governance of global finance operations using a single global methodology to track end-to-end processes and provide subsidiary governance throughout the legal-entity life cycle.
- Serve as a point of contact for applicable client relationships and demonstrate knowledge of client businesses.
- Take ownership of engagements by making decisions, resolving issues, and escalating client and internal partner issues as needed.
- Develop and guide senior/staff and junior professionals by providing performance feedback and ensuring team responsibilities align with skills and developmental goals.
- Deploy the right engagement team by leveraging US ACR resources and resources located in Global Delivery Service locations.
- Apply technical knowledge to moderately complex and non-routine, complex project work as requested by clients, staying current on global trends, developments, and regulations.
- Maintain complex sets of data and review data analytics to analyze trends, including collecting data in line with agreed financial statement close timelines and other requirements.
- Ensure statutory reporting and bookkeeping processes/procedures documentation remains relevant, up to date, and used consistently.
- Contribute to practice growth by supporting scoping of opportunities and proposal development, and participating in oral presentations.
- Support continuous improvement efforts by challenging traditional procedures and seeking new approaches to improve quality, visibility, efficiency, and client experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in accounting, finance, or other related business major.
- 8–10 years of work experience in audit/accounting.
- Approved technical certification, CPA license, or membership to state Bar is required.
- Knowledge of global statutory reporting and/or bookkeeping, preferably across multiple countries.
- US- GAAP knowledge, including GAAP reconciliation experience.
- Strong analytical skills; strong interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in Business English.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and IT concepts.
- Ability to analyze historical legal-entity financial information to determine what GAAP to GAAP and other adjustments are required, how they are calculated, and how they should be rolled forward for statutory financial statements.
- Ability to apply technical accounting knowledge to analyze account balances, reconciliations, and other financial matters during monthly, quarterly, or annual account closing.
- Ability to understand detailed issues underlying deliverable completion (e.g., statutory reporting or month-end close) to identify root causes, develop potential solutions, and clear impediments.
- Ability to influence change within the organization and with clients using technical knowledge, experience, and relationships.
- Ability to travel 20–30% to client locations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Client-facing exposure in a global role.
- Basic understanding of IT systems (SAP, Oracle, Business Central).
- Basic understanding of other compliance activities such as global indirect tax (VAT, GST, etc.) and corporate tax compliance.
- IFRS knowledge.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range (determined by factors including education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography):
- New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas; Washington State; and Southern California offices – $136,100 to $283,200
- Bay Area California offices – $141,900 to $295,000
- All other US office locations, including Sacramento – $113,500 to $259,500
Additional Total Rewards may include medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and paid time off options. A flexible vacation policy is included, along with time off for designated paid holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed.
Location
New York City, Hoboken, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix, Seattle, Dallas, Miami, and Washington.