Senior Tax Manager

Consultative Search Group • Westwood, CA

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About The Position

The Senior Tax Manager provides leadership, management, strategic guidance, mentoring, training, and technical expertise to tax professionals across the firm. This role serves as a key stakeholder and partner on tax-related business needs, collaborating regularly with executives, partners, clients, and stakeholders across the firm. The Senior Tax Manager communicates business objectives and provides actionable tax advice and goals.

The role develops strategies and implements solutions to complex taxation issues, drives changes that support business needs, and provides clear tax guidance to improve internal business functionality and the client experience. Responsibilities also include reviewing and signing corporate, partnership, individual, and trust tax returns and tax projections, including numerous multistate returns.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of current federal tax consulting and/or tax compliance experience at a public accounting or professional services firm.
• At least 5 years of experience leading a tax practice.
• Ability to direct a public accounting firm's tax department across multiple tax service areas.
• Knowledge of domestic and international accounting and tax guidelines and standards.
• Ability to identify and analyze complex tax issues and develop and implement solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of tax concepts and regulations related to individuals, C corporations, S corporations, partnerships, estates, and trusts.
• Proficiency in US GAAP, state tax compliance, partnership returns, joint venture and non-corporate entity tax returns, and combined state tax returns.
• Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various firm sites as requested.
• Advanced tax software experience, including knowledge of various tax software packages and technologies.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field.
• CPA or JD with an active law license.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, mentor, and train tax professionals across the firm's platform.
• Provide strategic guidance and technical expertise to the tax team.
• Serve as a key stakeholder for tax-related business needs and collaborate with executives and partners.
• Partner with clients and firmwide stakeholders to clarify business objectives and provide actionable tax advice and goals.
• Develop strategies and implement solutions to complex taxation issues.
• Drive progressive changes that support business needs.
• Provide tax guidance to optimize internal business functionality and the client experience.
• Review and sign corporate, partnership, individual, and trust tax returns and tax projections, including multistate returns.
• Direct a tax department across facets of tax services, including compliance, human capital services, federal tax, international tax, state and local tax, private wealth, tax reporting and advisory, partnership taxation, not-for-profit tax, and mergers and acquisitions tax services.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior