Senior Consultant, National Federal Tax Services - Transaction Readiness & Restructuring (TRR)

About the role

You will join Deloitte's National Transaction & Integration Services (T&IS) team, focusing on Transaction Readiness and Restructuring (TRR). This fast-paced, cross-collaborative, and project-focused team advises businesses and investors on tax matters related to integrations, divestitures, joint ventures, bankruptcy emergence, public equity offerings, and legal entity realignment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex tax issues by reviewing financial statements, regulatory filings, transactional documentation, client correspondence, and tax returns.
• Evaluate income and indirect tax implications of proposed integrations, divestitures, and business transformational transactions.
• Conduct complex tax research and formulate tax-planning strategies.
• Perform tax department assessments and document action items.
• Expand tax research skills on technical tax and operational issues, including taxation of corporations, pass-throughs, tax accounting methods, tax operations, and indirect taxation schemes in the U.S. and abroad.
• Supervise assignments for tax professionals at the Consultant level, focusing on project management, organization, and communication.
• Demonstrate sound judgment in evaluating complex scenarios while supervising and developing team members.
• Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to capture meeting notes, decisions, and action items, ensuring high-quality transaction-related deliverables.
• Assist clients with tax matters arising from transactions, including transaction costs, attribute limitations, departmental operations (e.g., combined financial accounting, tax department assimilation), and synergy capture (e.g., Day 1 Readiness integration, legal entity rationalization).
• Provide stock basis and Earnings & Profit (E&P) analysis for restructuring companies, including those disposing of subsidiaries, making strategic acquisitions, spin transactions, worthless securities deductions, or debt restructuring.

Requirements

• Ability to work within a hybrid model, co-locating in person 2-3 days per week.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, or JD.
• 2+ years of experience in core federal tax compliance, including federal and/or international tax.
• Experience in tax compliance and accounting for income tax, with a broad understanding of U.S. income tax principles.
• Familiarity with ASC 740, tax accounting, and basic multi-state and international tax principles.
• Willingness to travel 25%, on average.
• One of the following active accreditations (or in process/willing to obtain):
  • Licensed CPA in state of practice/primary office (if eligible to sit for the CPA).
  • Licensed attorney (if not CPA eligible).
  • Enrolled Agent.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP).
  • Chartered Financial Advisor (CFA).

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Previous Big 4 experience or equivalent.
• Advanced degree such as MST, MAcc, or LLM.
• Experience in corporate tax issues related to business combinations and divestitures, including taxation of corporations, partnerships, and shareholders.
• Self-starter with the ability to handle multiple, competing priorities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Highly disciplined with the ability to work under strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Pay

The wage range for this role is $78,675 to $160,750, taking into account factors such as skill sets, experience, training, licensure, certifications, and business needs. Compensation decisions depend on individual and organizational performance. You may also be eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program.