Tax Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Managing Director
GHJ · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · 1 mo ago
HybridBusiness Development$224k–$320k/yrFull-time
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Requirements: "What we need from you:" list: 10+ years of experience in public accounting (tax), demonstrating a proven ability in handling tax complexity, scope, and research. Prior leadership of client engagements and supervisory experience of managers and staff. Excellent oral & written communication skills. Self-starter with the ability to work independently and use good judgment. Strong interpersonal skills. Strong coaching skills and the desire to participate in our Coaching Program. Creative thinker with entrepreneurial approach to client interactions, including tax planning and bringing value to clients. Willingness to lead firm or tax department initiatives and be seen as a leader in the tax department.
Qualifications: "What skills & experience you’ll bring to us:" Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, or related equivalent. Masters of Science degree in Taxation or a J.D. highly preferred. CPA certification or active law license required.
Skills: Could be overlapping; maybe we can treat the "What we need from you" as Requirements, and "What skills & experience you’ll bring to us" as Qualifications. Then Skills could be omitted or we could combine some soft skills into Skills. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications. Pay section with salary range. That's enough.
We must not include Benefits or Schedule.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, AI, etc.
We must preserve all substantive info: ensure we don't lose any detail from responsibilities list, requirements list, qualifications list, about role, pay range.
Let's extract responsibilities list exactly as given (some semicolons). We'll split by semicolons or line breaks. The text:
"You will be responsible for: Managing/leading M&A tax consulting engagements, including but not limited to, tax due diligence, cross border and domestic tax structuring and financing, support of QoE engagements, and modeling the tax consequences of various acquisitions and dispositions;Performing discrete tax consulting engagements such as Section 382 analysis, gross up analysis, domestic or foreign earnings and profits calculation, basis calculation, purchase price allocation and transaction costs analysis;Reviewing and modeling complex partnership operating agreements and sales agreements;Demonstrating expert technical skills including the application and interpretation of U.S. federal income tax law including Subchapter C corporations, partnerships, consolidated groups, tax efficient structuring and use of debt, and the reorganization provisions of the Internal Revenue Code;Preparing written memoranda documenting research and analyzing appropriate outcomes based on application of the facts to tax law;To the extent required, reviewing and assisting with tax compliance-related consulting particularly as related to transactions;Proactively assisting in the firm’s various initiatives including tax technical updates, thought leadership, webinars and others;Maintaining knowledge of general economic and political trends of possible tax or other legislation that could affect the business climate;Supervising members of the tax team and providing on-the-job training;Working to develop responsible, trained staff by assisting in recruiting, performance evaluations, developing training aids, and acting as an instructor in professional development programs;Possessing a complete knowledge of the firm's philosophy and its positions on tax issues;Maintaining knowledge of general economic and political trends impacting possible tax or other legislation that could affect the business climate;Assisting in the client pursuit process (developing proposals, presenting at client pitch meetings, etc.);Proactively continuing to grow professional network and attending or participating in specific industry events;Collaborating with peers in other GHJ departments by promoting and identifying potential cross-selling opportunities; Taking ownership of billing process for your clients and actively engaging in the AR collection process; Working to effectively plan engagement including addressing any complex issues in advance of the start of the project;Identifying value-added projects and opportunities for expanded client business;Presence and regular engagement on social media networking platforms (e.g. LinkedIn);Possibly leading a tax department or firm initiative."
We need to ensure each item is a separate . Some items have commas inside; that's fine.
Now Requirements list: "What we need from you:" items separated by periods? Let's list:
- 10+ years of experience in public accounting (tax), demonstrating a proven ability in handling tax complexity, scope, and research.
- Prior leadership of client engagements and supervisory experience of managers and staff.
- Excellent oral & written communication skills.
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently and use good judgment.
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong coaching skills and the desire to participate in our Coaching Program.
- Creative thinker with entrepreneurial approach to client interactions, including tax planning and bringing value to clients.
- Willingness to lead firm or tax department initiatives and be seen as a leader in the tax department.
We'll make each .
Qualifications list: "What skills & experience you’ll bring to us:" items:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, or related equivalent.
- Masters of Science degree in Taxation or a J.D. highly preferred
- CPA certification or active law license required.
Now About the role: we have paragraph(s). We'll put in for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It gives examples but not exclusive; we could add other headings? It says "use
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. Must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Pay: we have salary range $224,000 - $320,000. So we can include Pay section with that. Schedule: not mentioned, so omit. Benefits: not mentioned explicitly; there is no benefits description. So omit Benefits. Skills: we have list of skills & experience you’ll bring: Bachelor's degree, Masters of Science in Taxation or JD highly preferred, CPA certification or active law license required. Also maybe other skills like communication, etc. Those are in "What we need from you" and "What skills & experience you’ll bring to us". We can combine into Skills/Requirements sections. Need to decide sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (experience needed), Qualifications (education/licenses), Skills (maybe soft skills). But we must not create thin sections. Let's extract content. About the role: The "Summary of Role:" paragraph: GHJ is seeking an accomplished Tax transaction advisory professional with deep M&A/private equity experience to help accelerate the growth of our existing buy-side Transaction Advisory Services practice. The position reports to the Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) Practice Leader and ultimately to the Tax Department Practice Leader. The Tax M&A Managing Director will be responsible for leading client engagements requiring Tax M&A expertise. The ideal candidate will have advanced technical skills in a variety of tax areas, along with well-developed and demonstrated management and supervisory skills. Administrative, leadership, marketing, practice development, and business development responsibilities are also key elements for this position. That's good for About the role. Responsibilities: The bullet list after "You will be responsible for:" includes many items. We'll put each as
. Pay: "A reasonable estimate of the current range is: $224,000 - $320,000." We'll put in
under Pay heading. Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like "Equal Employment Opportunity", etc. Now produce HTML fragment: start with maybe but not required. Just output headings and content. We'll do:
About the role
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Responsibilities
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Requirements
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Qualifications
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Pay
$224,000 - $320,000
Make sure not to add extra sections. Check that we didn't miss any substantive info: The "Summary of Role:" also includes "The position reports to the Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) Practice Leader and ultimately to the Tax Department Practice Leader." included in about role paragraph. Good. Also "The Tax M&A Managing Director will be responsible for leading client engagements requiring Tax M&A expertise." included. Also "The ideal candidate will have advanced technical skills in a variety of tax areas, along with well-developed and demonstrated management and supervisory skills." included. Also "Administrative, leadership, marketing, practice development, and business development responsibilities are also key elements for this position." included. Now ensure we didn't inadvertently include any fluff like "Seven decades, one enduring focus: our people and our clients." That's boilerplate/firm description; we should remove as it's not specific to role? It's generic firm description. According to rules, remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This firm description may be considered boilerplate; but it's not explicitly listed. However it's not specific to the role; it's generic about GHJ. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." The firm description may be considered substantive? It's about the firm, not the role. Might be considered boilerplate but not explicitly prohibited. Safer to keep? The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This is not those. So we could keep it if we want, but we already omitted it in About the role. The About the role we wrote only from Summary of Role. If we omitted the firm description, we might be losing some substantive info about the firm. However the instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. The firm description is substantive info about the firm. But the section About the role is for role-specific content; we could include a separate section like "About the firm" but not requested headings list includes only those specific headings. We could incorporate firm description into About the role? But that would be mixing. The instruction: "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It gives examples but not exclusive; we could add other headings? It says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect only those headings. So we should not add other headings. So we must fit all substantive info into those sections. The firm description could go under About the role as extra context. That seems acceptable. So we should include firm description in About the role paragraph.
Thus About the role paragraph should combine the Summary of Role and the firm description paragraphs after "Seven decades, one enduring focus: our people and our clients." Let's capture that.
After the responsibilities list, there is paragraph: "Seven decades, one enduring focus: our people and our clients. GHJ is a national independent advisory, tax and accounting firm that partners with businesses and nonprofit organizations to deliver clarity and confidence. Since 1953, GHJ has combined deep industry expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit to help leaders achieve their strategic goals. GHJ is headquartered in Los Angeles and serves clients nationwide, backed by its own dispersed workforce. With nearly 300 professionals and 25+ partners, the Firm provides senior-level expertise with deep industry capabilities in food and beverage, media and advertising, entertainment and nonprofit. GHJ is a top-ranking firm in the U.S. and member of HLB International. Through this global network, GHJ offers seamless access to resources in over 150 countries while remaining fiercely focused on client success."
We should include that in About the role.
Thus About the role will have multiple paragraphs maybe; we can combine into one
with sentences separated by spaces. Now ensure we don't include the EEO etc. Now produce final HTML. Check for any duplicated lines: we must not repeat. We'll be careful. Now craft. Let's write About the role paragraph: GHJ is seeking an accomplished Tax transaction advisory professional