State and Local Tax - Income and Franchise Manager
About the role
The Income/Franchise Tax Manager will deliver a full range of tax planning, consulting, and compliance services for multiple clients. This role will involve managing, directing, and monitoring multiple client services teams on client engagements, planning, executing, directing, and completing tax projects in various industries, providing tax planning, consulting, and compliance expertise to clients, and managing budgets. The role also involves leading staff on tax projects, assessing performance for engagement and year-end reviews, managing State and Local Tax services, conducting multi-disciplinary, multi-state reviews, and consulting with clients on business and process improvement.
Responsibilities
- Manage, direct, and monitor multiple client services teams on client engagements
- Plan, execute, direct, and complete tax projects in a wide variety of industries
- Provide tax planning, consulting, and compliance expertise to clients
- Manage budget
- Develop, train, and mentor staff on tax projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews
- Manage multi-disciplinary, multi-state reviews that analyze income, franchise, sales and use, payroll, valorem taxes, and others to identify optimal filing options, exemptions, credits and incentives, and corporate structures that can reduce the client's tax burden
- Consult, work with, and service clients to make recommendations on business and process improvement and serve as a business advisor to clients
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting
- Minimum six years of progressive tax compliance and/or tax consulting experience
- Active CPA license, JD with active law license in good standing, or Certified Member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Managers are required to manage various project tasks, at the same time
- Project managers will be ultimately responsible for the overall project and deliverable
- Support business development activities, such as identification, proposal development, and other pursuit activities at clients
- Strong computer skills
- Can travel as needed
Pay
The base salary range for this position is between $138,000 and $172,500. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity.
Schedule
This position requires in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site. Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, the role will require in-person attendance at least three days per week.
About Us
At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result – for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more: more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It’s what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better.
About The Team
The team you’re about to join is ready to help you thrive. Here’s how: Whether it's your work location, weekly schedule, or flex time off, we empower you with the options to work the way that it best serves your clients and your life. Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site. Here, you are supported to prioritize your overall well-being through work-life integration options that work best for you and those in your household. We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different — and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you.