International Tax Senior Manager

Wipfli•Southfield, MI

16h

About The Position

Wipfli is seeking an experienced International Tax Senior Manager to serve as a strategic account leader and trusted advisor to multinational companies. The role leads complex U.S. international tax engagements and client relationships, helping senior tax, finance, accounting, and business stakeholders navigate cross-border compliance, planning, transactions, and reporting. The Senior Manager coordinates multidisciplinary teams, develops Managers and other professionals, and helps grow Wipfli’s International Tax practice. The position is responsible for leading a portfolio of multinational accounts and complex inbound and outbound engagements, overseeing U.S. corporate and partnership tax compliance, and reviewing international tax forms, computations, disclosures, and workpapers. It provides guidance on complex international tax matters and advises clients on the consequences, risks, and planning alternatives related to global operations, transactions, and organizational changes. The role also connects international tax work with related disciplines, maintains quality standards, monitors developments, develops staff, improves processes and technology, and contributes to practice growth.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance, or a related field.
10+ years of relevant professional experience, including significant U.S. international tax and multinational corporate tax experience.
Demonstrated success leading complex multinational client accounts, multiple concurrent engagements, and multidisciplinary teams.
Extensive experience reviewing complex international tax computations, forms, disclosures, technical conclusions, and supporting workpapers.
Experience advising senior client tax and finance leaders and making technical, strategic, and commercial recommendations.
Advanced technical research, judgment, engagement leadership, business development, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to coach and develop Managers and other tax professionals.

Nice To Haves

CPA, JD, EA, or another relevant professional credential.
Master’s degree in Taxation or Accounting, JD, or LLM in Taxation.
Public accounting experience with a national or large regional CPA firm serving multinational companies.
Experience with ASC 740, transfer pricing, tax due diligence, state and local tax coordination, international M&A, or cross-border transaction support.
Experience leading proposals, expanding client relationships, developing service plans, and coordinating multidisciplinary account teams.
Experience with CCH Axcess, BNA, Checkpoint, international tax compliance software, automation, or advanced Excel modeling.

Responsibilities

Own and strategically lead key multinational client accounts, serving as a senior relationship contact and trusted advisor on international and related domestic tax needs.
Develop knowledge of clients’ global business models, ownership structures, transactions, risk profiles, and strategic priorities to anticipate needs and provide forward-looking guidance.
Lead complex inbound and outbound international tax engagements, managing scope, technical quality, economics, staffing, risk, deadlines, and executive-level communication.
Oversee U.S. corporate and partnership tax compliance, including Forms 1120, 1065, and 1120-F, extensions, estimated tax payments, elections, disclosures, and state and local filing requirements.
Review complex international tax forms, computations, disclosures, and workpapers, including Forms 5471, 5472, 8858, 8865, 1118, 1042, 1042-S, 8991, 8992, and 8993, as applicable.
Provide senior-level guidance on Subpart F, NCTI, foreign tax credits, Section 163(j), FDDEI, BEAT, Section 245A, PTEP, tax treaties, withholding, repatriation, foreign currency matters, and cross-border structuring.
Advise senior client stakeholders on tax consequences, risks, and planning alternatives related to global operations, investments, distributions, transactions, entity structures, and organizational changes.
Coordinate Wipfli specialists to integrate international tax considerations with federal corporate tax, state and local tax, transfer pricing, ASC 740, transaction reporting, employment tax, and business objectives.
Resolve unusual or complex technical and engagement matters, determine when consultation or escalation is appropriate, and maintain quality-control standards across the client portfolio.
Monitor legislative, regulatory, and administrative developments and communicate actionable implications to clients and firm professionals.
Lead and develop Managers, Seniors, and Associates; provide technical consultation and deliver practice-wide training and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Champion standardization, technology, and process improvements involving workpapers, templates, calculation models, review tools, data collection, automation, and scalable compliance delivery.
Drive practice growth through existing-client expansion, proposals, business development, cross-functional collaboration, marketplace activities, and continued development of Wipfli’s international tax capabilities.