Director of Business Management & Tax

KBK Management•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

KBK Management is a tech-forward entertainment business management firm serving musicians, touring artists, and entertainment executives. We are a team of 15, with about half based in Los Angeles, operating out of a converted home in Highland Park. Our culture is intentionally human, unpretentious, and built for the work. We value honesty, integrity, creativity, curiosity, and humor, believing in mutual support and genuine feedback. We are seeking a leader who can integrate the roles of controller, tax director, operations manager, and team builder. This position reports directly to the founder and will oversee bookkeeping staff, the Tax Manager, and the business management team, acting as a central point of connection across all firm functions. The role requires comfortable cross-functional leadership, moving fluidly between tax, accounting, operations, and client relationships. The founder has extensive tax and controller experience, allowing the new director to have full ownership and build this function. The role is hands-on initially to ensure a deep understanding of the work, with the ultimate goal of building a team that can eventually manage these functions independently. The focus is on understanding all functions to enable intelligent hiring, delegation, and the creation of a self-sustaining operation.

Requirements

CPA required
IRS representation experience required (audits, offers in compromise, penalty abatement)
Controller-level accounting and serious tax experience
Personal finance and insurance/risk management familiarity
Experience managing and developing staff
Experience with controller-level financial oversight
Experience with strategic tax planning
Experience with tax preparation and review
Experience with tax compliance
Experience with personal financial management for clients
Experience with operations and workflow development
Experience with business development
Familiarity with ProConnect, QuickBooks, Xero, Monarch, Canopy, and CCH
Ability to think naturally in systems and checklists
Understanding of how software thinks and ability to learn new tools quickly
Ability to surface problems upwards
Experience building a process, team, or function that didn't exist before
Ability to think cross-functionally by nature

Nice To Haves

Entertainment, music, or sports business management experience a significant plus

Responsibilities

Oversee bookkeeping staff, Tax Manager, and business management team.
Serve as the connective tissue across every function of the firm.
Lead cross-functionally, moving fluidly between tax, accounting, operations, and client relationships.
Build and manage the tax, accounting, and operations functions.
Perform controller-level financial oversight, including balance sheet, P&L, year-end close, and quality review.
Engage in strategic tax planning, including PTET elections, shareholder payroll, and ISR rules.
Conduct tax preparation and review for complex individual and business returns, multi-entity, multi-state, and international/cross-border situations.
Manage tax compliance, owning the 1099 and 1042 processes end-to-end.
Handle personal financial management for clients, including budgets, cash flow, insurance, and risk management.
Develop and improve operations and workflows, building systems and automating repetitive tasks.
Contribute to business development by bringing relationships and developing new clients.
Oversee the firm's tech stack, including ProConnect, QuickBooks, Xero, Monarch, and CCH.
Delegate with purpose, develop staff, and have necessary difficult conversations.
Ensure bookkeeping review processes run without founder involvement.
Ensure tax deadlines are owned and never missed.
Document and implement service standards tiered by client size.
Define and implement delivery standards for each client tier.
Ensure staff development and clarity of roles for bookkeepers, Tax Manager, and business management staff.
Proactively address strategic tax planning considerations.
Document systems and workflows to institutionalize knowledge.
Focus on growth and move out of operational weeds.