Senior Manager, Real Property Tax

About the role

The Property Tax Senior Manager oversees Managers/Staff to provide property tax compliance, consulting, and appeal services for assigned clients. The Senior Manager maintains existing client relationships and focuses on property tax management and minimization opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Manages and monitors all aspects of the annual property tax cycle for assigned real and personal property accounts.
• Demonstrates superior knowledge in the annual compliance process, valuation techniques, assessment reviews, jurisdictional expertise, and client industry expertise.
• Schedules, coordinates, and leads all status calls and client presentations and consistently updates clients on recent activities including compliance, reviews, appeals and status of engagements.
• Reviews and manages client audits conducted by tax jurisdictions.
• Attends hearings, settlement conferences, and negotiations, through settlement.
• Reviews and manages client contract terms, scope of services and fees.
• Manages client billing and ensures timely collection of receivables (less than 90 days).
• Supervises and provides guidance to team and acts as mentor to new Managers.
• Ensures team compliance with Firm policies, practice guidelines, and standards.
• Gives timely performance feedback to team members and addresses, documents, and escalates performance issues.
• Ensures workload is property distributed among team members and holds team members accountable for completion of assigned projects.
• Actively involved in business development of new clients, maintaining existing clients, and focusing on cross selling efforts.
• Participates actively in professional organizations and seeks speaking opportunities and writing articles to build eminence.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• University Degree, College Diploma, or equivalent in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Real Estate, Business Management or other degree with MBA, MST or JD required and at least seven years property tax related experience required.
• Candidates with appropriate valuation designations preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership, problem solving, and strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks, work on multiple assignments, and manage ambiguity.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft® Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet navigation and research.

Qualifications

• Masters or Bachelors Degree in Finance/ Commerce/ Accounting/ Business 5+ years of experience in International accounting and Finance domain.
• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• At least 10-12 years of Team handling experience.
• Good understanding of unclaimed property & Credits and Incentives concepts especially U.S. related and excellent analytical & problem solving abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail and ability to meet strict deadline.
• Expertise in MS Excel and MS Word and working knowledge of MS access, Project Management & Quality Management.
• Setting up performance benchmarks for team and targeting entitlement levels in terms of team as well as individual performance.
• Conduct individual monthly feedback sessions and provide inputs during performance appraisals.
• Proactive communication and good organizing skills.
• Innovative and critical thinking in driving process improvements and operational cost reduction.
• Coaching and mentoring team members while defining their career paths.
• Expertise in preparing and reporting out Monthly / Weekly / Quarterly / Half yearly and Annual dashboards.