Tax Director, Private Client Advisors (Estate, Gift & Trust)

Armanino LLP•St. Louis, MO

About The Position

At Armanino, you determine your career path. This means it's possible to pursue challenges you are passionate about, in industries you care about. Armanino is proud to be Among the top 20 Largest Accounting and Consulting Firms in the Nation and one of the Best Places to Work. We have a community of resources that are ready and willing to support your ideas, build your skills and expand your professional network. We want you to integrate all aspects of your life with your career. At Armanino, we know you don’t check-out of life when you check-in at work. That’s why we’ve created a unique work environment where your passions, work, and family & friends can overlap. We want to help you achieve growth by giving you access to a network of smart and supportive people, willing to listen to your ideas.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Tax, Finance, or related discipline
Qualified to practice before the IRS (i.e., JD, CPA, or EA)
Minimum of 8 years' experience in public accounting in taxation or equivalent experience
Minimum of 4 years in a managerial role involving clients and team members
Advanced understanding of planning and compliance concepts related to high-net-worth individual and fiduciary income tax, gift tax, and estate tax
Possess a strong knowledge of accounting theory and federal, state and local tax laws

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree in Accounting or Taxation

Responsibilities

Perform technical reviews of tax returns for high-net-worth individuals, primarily their personal income tax returns as well as their closely held businesses (pass through entities), trust, estate, and gift tax returns.
Provide consultation on business and/or personal transactions (if applicable), and the related tax implications, consequences and treatment.
Manage larger and complex engagements and workflow of multiple clients and related deliverables to minimize risk and surprises, maximize engagement economics, meet internal and external deadlines and develops less experienced engagement personnel, primarily managers and supervisors.
Review or conduct high level research of complex or emerging tax issues and prepare memorandums to support conclusions.
Engage with our internal business development department, builds relationships across the firm internally, identify potential cross-selling opportunities for clients and actively brings the opportunities to clients, collaborating across AMLLP service lines.
Engage in thought leadership, contributing to technical publications and engaging in speaking opportunities (both internally and externally)
Develops our internal professionals by leading formal learning opportunities/trainings or supporting the development of training materials in collaboration with Learning & Development Team and sharing knowledge
Train and develop managers responsible for engagement management responsibilities, including analyze billing, managing complex budgets, scheduling and staffing, due date management and client relations.
Continually build on technical expertise in taxation by attending continuing professional education courses or utilizing other training resource
Keep current with tax law changes and provide updates and training to the firm’s tax practice members.