Tax Manager - Private Clients (CHB)

About the role

The Private Clients (CHB) Practice at Elliott Davis is seeking a Tax Manager to lead and support a team of tax professionals in providing comprehensive tax services to complex closely held businesses and their individual business owners.

Responsibilities

• Possess thorough knowledge of all facets of the customer’s business to ensure customer understanding of engagement economics and to provide frequent updates
• Actively communicate the progress of engagements, problems, and resolutions to customers
• Continuously improve specialty area knowledge and educate the team on new audit practices and processes
• Manage billable hour budgets and follow up when the team is over/under to determine the cause
• Perform technical tax review of assigned tax returns simultaneously and of varying complexity
• Research and identify complex tax issues and recommend creative solutions with the input of key stakeholders
• Build challenging developmental plans for all team members and evaluate the results
• Delegate and manage tax and research assignments to achieve accurate and efficient product
• Assume responsibility for and provide direction and coaching to the tax team
• Generate new business for the firm through community involvement, networking, and professional events/committees
• Provide effective performance feedback and on-the-job training
• Contribute to performance management to help assess readiness for promotion of staff and senior levels

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance; Master’s degree in Tax preferred
• 5+ years of recent accounting firm experience, including managing multiple tax accounting projects and customer engagements, directing, scheduling staff, and managing workflow
• Significant experience working with all types of entity taxes
• CPA certification
• Able to multitask
• Excellent communication skills

What You’ll Need

• Travel up to 15% of the time may be required