Tax Manager - Indirect Tax - Property Tax

About the role

The opportunity involves advising on indirect tax regulatory changes, designing strategies, operating models, processes, and compliance frameworks that raise efficiency and meet requirements. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities for tax optimization, credits and refund recovery, exposure reduction; managing strategies, compliance, remediation, controversies, and corrective filings. Supporting process review and technology transformation.

Responsibilities

• Translate regulatory changes into practical compliance and reporting solutions.
• Implement operating models and frameworks across the indirect tax lifecycle.
• Lead optimization, recovery, and exposure-reduction initiatives.
• Lead workstream delivery, track status and deliverables, and participate in client working sessions.
• Identify opportunities for additional services, contribute to RFPs, manage engagement economics, and implement resource plans and budgets.
• Guide teams, drive improvement, and recommend solutions by interpreting internal/external issues.
• Travel required regularly for external clients.

Requirements

• Lead solutions to complex problems and select suitable methods and criteria.
• Recommend policy changes and establish procedures for your area or function.
• Apply depth of expertise to guide others toward quality solutions.
• Understand complex commercial real and personal property tax concepts and effectively apply tax knowledge to client situations.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant property tax consulting experience or equivalent experience in business or industry.
• CPA or JD.
• Broad exposure to state and local taxation.
• Excellent managerial, organizational, analytical and verbal/written communication skills.
• Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment.
• Tax legislation and impact assessment.
• Indirect tax refund and recovery review.
• Tax planning and optimization.
• Process improvement and optimization.
• Tax compliance and reporting requirements.

Skills and attributes for success

• Client-facing delivery leadership, disciplined quality and risk management, continuous improvement, and the ability to guide teams toward outcomes.
• Communicate with impact and bring commercial astuteness to drive growth.
• Manage and deliver processes, solutions, and projects with a focus on quality and risk.
• Interpret internal/external issues to recommend innovative, practical solutions.
• Meet locally set performance metrics across client service, quality, sales, solution development, and teaming.
• Develop and deliver quality tax planning approaches with timely and responsive services and work products that exceed client expectations.
• Identify and offer opportunities for tax planning and other special services.
• Prepare quality, practical approaches to the client's tax situation and arrive at appropriate conclusions.

Pay

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $105,100 to $192,600. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $126,100 to $218,900. 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

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.