Research and Development Tax Manager

Job Description:
Position Summary:

Candidate will help conduct fieldwork and supervise staff on consulting projects. Field work typically involves visiting the client location for a couple of days, touring client facilities, investigating relevant facts, analyzing accounting information, preparing cost lead schedules and cost summary schedules, completing appropriate tax computations, and preparing written reports summarizing the findings.

-Strong Communication Skills: Candidate will be required to communicate with both clients and management verbally and in written form.
-Time Management: Candidate must demonstrate ability to manage time, multi-task and meet deadlines. Candidates are expected to initiate internal communication regarding status of tasks, relevant technical issues discovered, status of work load, expected due dates, etc.
-Tax Knowledge: Candidate must demonstrate proficiency in understanding basic tax concepts.
-Personal Development: Candidate will be required to read and study relevant tax material related to the specific line of business. In this way staff will become experts in the related field.
-Leadership: Candidate must demonstrate strong leadership and supervisory skills. Prior supervisory experience is a plus.
-Critical Thinking: Candidate must demonstrate an ability to extrapolate and form hypotheses based on relevant facts and trends.
-Conduct fieldwork: Staff will conduct fieldwork specific to the consulting projects. Field work typically involves visiting the client location, touring client facilities, investigating relevant facts, analyzing accounting information, preparing cost lead schedules and cost summary schedules, completing appropriate tax computations, and preparing written reports summarizing the findings.
-Travel: Candidate must be willing and able to travel approximately 2 to 8 days per month.
-Legal research: Tax consulting by nature requires that staff develop their expertise in a particular field of the tax law. Staff will conduct research that is both general and client specific.
-Personal development: Staff will be required to read and study relevant tax material related to the specific line of business. In this way staff will become experts in the related field.
-Client communication: Staff will be required to communicate with clients both verbally and in written form.
-Manage workload: Staff will be required to multi-task and manage various project tasks at once. Project managers will be ultimately responsible for the overall project and deliverable. Staff are expected to initiate internal communication regarding status of tasks, relevant technical issues discovered, status of work load, expected due dates, etc. The tax consulting practice has less structure at the staff level then the traditional audit and tax compliance practices.

Qualifications:
-Masters Degree in Accounting or Tax, or 1 - 3 years of prior experience
-Basic understanding of tax return mechanics. Candidate need not be expert in preparing tax returns, however, a basic understanding of the mechanics of the tax return is required
-Strong verbal communication: Candidate must demonstrate ability to clearly communicate verbally. Much of the tax consulting fieldwork requires staff to interview client personnel and verbal communication skills are critical
-Strong writing skills: Candidate must demonstrate ability to clearly communicate through writing.
-Time management: Candidate must demonstrate ability to manage time, multi-task and meet deadlines.
-Proficient in basic tax concepts: Candidate must demonstrate proficiency in understanding basic tax concepts (i.e. revenue deferral, federal vs. state law, credits vs. deductions, various definitions)
-Critical thinking.
-Desire to develop and grow the R&D Tax Credit Services in the Minneapolis market.
-Travel: Candidate must be willing and able to travel approximately 3 to 8 days per month.
-Teamwork: Candidate must demonstrate experience in working as a productive member of a team.

Searchable Keywords: Research and Development Tax Manager / gj-mo

Minimum Education Required: Masters

Years of Experience Required: 3-5 Years

Expected Travel Time: None