Tax Managing Director, Core Tax Services

About the role

The Tax Managing Director is responsible for advising clients on tax implications, evaluating alternative actions, and ensuring compliance with tax regulations. They also serve as a key member of the leadership team, directly supervising associates, and participating in business development.

Responsibilities

• Tax Compliance: Ensures clients comply with all applicable authorities while minimizing tax and reporting burdens. Manages engagements to meet engagement management metrics.
• Research: Identifies and conducts necessary research, frames issues for analysis, and reports findings.
• Tax Accruals: Applies Firm policies and standards to correctly and proactively apply FAS 109 and FIN 48 for income tax accruals.
• Tax Consulting: Assists in developing and implementing methods to maximize client benefits, especially by reducing taxes or expenses.
• Tax Specialization: Develops in-depth understanding of one or more areas of taxation, advises clients on tax implications, and recommends alternative courses of action.
• Strategy Development: Introduces and develops new or improved ideas to improve client positions, the Firm, or Firm personnel.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: Supervises associates, senior associates, and managers, schedules and manages workload, and provides performance feedback.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Statistics, or a Master's in Accountancy or Taxation.
• At least ten (10) years of relevant tax experience and/or public accounting, private industry accounting, or consulting/professional services experience.
• Prior supervisory experience.
• CPA certification, Attorney (admitted to practice in a U.S. jurisdiction), or Internal Revenue Service Enrolled Agent (or the equivalent of one of these designations).
• Software proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, tax research databases, and tax compliance process software.

Qualifications

• Industry expertise in one or more tax specialties.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical, research, and critical thinking skills.
• Effective decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
• Capable of working well in a team environment.
• Ability to develop and manage a team of tax professionals.
• Capable of composing written tax advice.
• Ability to effectively develop and maintain client relationships.

Skills

• Expertise in ASC 740 (FAS 109 and FIN 48).
• Knowledge of income tax provisions in international tax, valuation allowance credits, business combinations, and stock-based compensation issues.
• Ability to apply technical expertise to issue identification and resolution.
• Knowledge of multiple tax specialties, such as individual, corporate, property, sales, corporate, pass-through, state and local, international, expatriate, transfer pricing, credits and incentives, compensation and benefits, accounting methods, R&D tax benefits.
• Capacity to work well in a team environment.
• Ability to develop and manage a team of tax professionals.
• Capable of composing written tax advice.
• Ability to effectively develop and maintain client relationships.

Benefits

Details about benefits are available upon request.

Pay

California Range: $190,000 - $335,000
Colorado Range: $185,000 - $225,000
Illinois Range: $175,000 - $250,000
Maryland Range: $185,000 - $260,000
Massachusetts Range: $215,000 - $300,000
Minnesota Range: $170,000 - $250,000
New Jersey Range: $190,000 - $350,000
Ohio Range: $150,000 - $300,000
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $230,000 - $350,000
Washington Range: $196,400 - $249,400
Washington DC Range: $190,000 - $300,000

Schedule

Details about schedule are available upon request.