Corporate Tax Senior Manager, Core Tax Services

Tax Compliance

• Ensures clients comply with all applicable authorities while minimizing tax and reporting burdens.
• Conducts top-level review of T/R and resolves all tax issues with client; involves specialists where appropriate.
• Plans for early recognition of material tax and compliance issues and consults with the client and/or partner as appropriate.
• Identifies when research is needed; clearly and concisely frames issues to be researched; and clearly and concisely reports the analysis.
• Identifies complex issues to be researched by engagement team and provides research methodology for efficient research process.
• Trains managers/staff on research skills and helps to appropriately frame tax issues for analysis.
• Involves firm specialists, as appropriate.
• Reviews tax provisions – applies in-depth knowledge of ASC 740-10 if applicable to practice work.
• Reviews prepared workpapers.
• Explains and discusses with the client components of the income tax provision and uncertain tax positions as well as other complexities surrounding ASC 740-10.

Tax Consulting

• Aids in developing, recommending, and implementing efficient and effective methods to maximize client benefits, especially by decreasing clients' current and future taxes.
• Applies the combination of tax knowledge and knowledge of business/industry to recommend solutions.
• Maximizes client benefits, especially by decreasing client taxes, while managing risk.
• Confers with STS specialists to determine applicability of STS consulting specialties to each client. Involves STS when appropriate.
• Makes sure implementation of work plans (client service plan) is efficiently and effectively conducted.
• Provides effective assistance with protests at the appeals level.
• Implements applicable Firm strategies.
• Manages client expectations.

Tax Specialization

• Develops an in-depth understanding of the technical and practical issues and opportunities regarding one or more areas of taxation, e.g., individual, corporate, property, sales, corporate, pass-through, state and local, international, expatriate, transfer pricing, credits and incentives, compensation and benefits, accounting methods, R&D tax benefits.
• May be required to organize and conduct, or participate in conducting, effective external CPE training sessions in area of specialization, involving Firm specialists, at a minimum of once per year.
• Trains and mentors managers/seniors/associates on specialization areas.

Strategy Development

• Introduces and develops new or improved ideas to improve the position of clients, the Firm, or Firm personnel, e.g., by reducing taxes or expenses or providing non-tax benefits.
• Researches and implements tax strategies, including experimentation with promising new strategies and ideas.
• Consistently makes suggestions as to how previous work products or approaches can be improved.
• May lead marketing campaigns, if applicable to role.
• Presents complex strategies to clients and prospective clients.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supervises associates and senior associates on all projects.
• Reviews work prepared by associates and senior associates and provide review comments.
• Trains Associates and Seniors how to use all current software tools.
• Acts as a Career Advisor to associates and senior associates.
• Schedules and manages workload of associates and senior associates.
• Provides verbal and written performance feedback to associates and senior associates.

Education

• Bachelor's degree required; major in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Statistics preferred.
• Master’s in Accountancy or Taxation preferred.
• Eight (8) or more years of prior relevant tax experience and/or public accounting, private industry accounting or consulting/professional services experience required.
• Industry expertise in one or more tax specialty preferred.
• Prior supervisory experience required.
• Licenses/Certifications: CPA certification, Attorney (admitted to practice in a U.S. jurisdiction), or Internal Revenue Service Enrolled Agent (“EA”) (or the equivalent of one of these designations) required.
• Possession of other professional degrees or certifications applicable to role preferred.
• Software Proficiency: Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite preferred.
• Experience with tax research databases and tax compliance process software preferred.