Excise Tax-Manager

About the role

The opportunity is to support excise tax compliance and advisory projects for clients in various industries including Oil & Gas, Transportation, Manufacturing, and Retail. The compliance role covers all types of US Federal and State excise tax filings, inclusive of fuel tax filing obligations. The advisory support includes activities such as due diligence reviews, structuring assistance, licensing research and consultation, controversy support, interpretation and consultation related to new legislation, and reviewing all related correspondence.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate an effective understanding of excise tax concepts and apply tax knowledge to client situations
• Support your team in developing and delivering quality tax planning approaches with timely and responsive services and work products that meet and/or exceed client expectations
• Affiliate with your team in identifying and engaging clients in opportunities for excise tax compliance, planning, and other special services
• Prepare quality, practical approaches to the client's tax situation and arrive at appropriate conclusions
• Develop recommendations and implementation plans and make informed decisions in complex and judgmental areas
• Build technical competence by keeping up to date on trends, developments and legislation that impact our clients
• Research advanced and complex tax issues and develop practical and effective solutions
• Ability to lead client discussions, monitor commitments and deadlines, and drive internal team to completion
• Collaborate with clients and colleagues to analyze tax issues, determine alternative methods of problem-solving and arrive at recommendations
• Support compliance team where needed with ability to analyze current data and benchmark historical data for compliance and tax calculation purposes and make recommendations to team on issues and other matters impacting the business
• Apply independent and objective decision making related to tasks performed
• Decide when to ask questions or proceed further with the task at hand
• Receive direction from more senior team members and occasionally directly from PPMD
• Ability to analyze federal and state statutes and related regulations and advice; apply to current facts or issues to make conclusions and articulate to team members and clients
• Lead and coach team members in managing engagement lifecycle and engagement economics for the practice
• Responsible for financial and economic health of managed engagement

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree (Accounting, Business, Finance or equivalent degree preferred)
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in a professional services or tax services organization
• Excellent organizational and verbal/written communications skills
• Effective time management skills
• Ability to work in fast paced professional services environment
• Strong research skills, ability to navigate Westlaw, CCH, RIA, etc.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Effective knowledge of excise tax concepts
• Computer software applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment

Qualifications

• CPA, EA, or JD/LLM (Ideally)

Skills and attributes for success

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree (Accounting, Business, Finance or equivalent degree preferred)
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in a professional services or tax services organization
• Excellent organizational and verbal/written communications skills
• Effective time management skills
• Ability to work in fast paced professional services environment
• Strong research skills, ability to navigate Westlaw, CCH, RIA, etc.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Effective knowledge of excise tax concepts
• Computer software applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment

Pay

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $91,700 to $168,100. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $110,100 to $191,000. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.

Schedule

Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.