Tax Senior Manager (Family Wealth Planning)

Job Description:
TAX - SENIOR MANAGER

POSITION SUMMARY

Grant Thornton's tax professionals are committed to developing and implementing bright ideas, intelligent strategies, and innovative solutions - solutions that can significantly reduce our clients' tax bills. Reducing our clients' tax bills in today's environment requires not only bright ideas and intelligent planning, but also a commitment to professional excellence and a complementary service approach.

Grant Thornton's tax specialists are dedicated to delivering value-added, client-focused tax services that shed light on all of our clients' unresolved tax concerns.

The Senior Tax Manager is responsible for the delivery of a full range of tax services for multiple clients in a wide variety of industries. Responsibilities include interacting closely with clients to provide innovative tax planning, consulting, and compliance expertise; developing and managing staff; working closely with partners and staff on client management, practice development and business development activities; and formulating and delivering innovative tax planning and tax savings strategies. The Senior Tax Manager is responsible for an assigned group of clients.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Adhere to the highest degree of professional standards and strict client confidentiality.
-Oversee the efforts of multiple client services teams on client engagements; plan, execute, direct, and complete tax projects in a wide variety of industries; provide innovative tax planning, consulting, and compliance expertise to clients; market, sell, design, and implement tax-planning strategies for clients and manage to budget.
-Understand and manage firm risk on tax services and proposals.
-Develop a project vision and set challenging personal and client service team goals.
-Manage, develop, train, and mentor staff on tax projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews.
-Conduct primary and secondary review of complicated or complex income tax returns including Corporate, S-Corp., partnership, and individual clients.
-Research and consult on complex tax matters.
-Maintain active communication with clients to manage expectations, ensure satisfaction, make sure deadlines are met, and lead change efforts effectively.
-Consult, work with, and service client to make recommendations on business and process improvement and serve as a business advisor to client.
-Work closely with partners, managers, and staff to integrate practice development skills into a team approach to client service and new business development.
-Play a key role in the future business generation and continued development of the client base within industry groups and identify future client needs and new business opportunities.
-Use established network of business relationships within industry groups to generate new sales opportunities.
-Maintain strong client relations and cross-sell services within the assigned group of clients.
-Recruit and retain managers, senior associates, and associates.
-Coach staff and motivate others to accept new ideas, practices, or action and achieve goals and objectives for performance and professional development.
-Attend professional development and training seminars on a regular basis.
-Perform other job-related duties as necessary.

Job Experience:
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
-Bachelor's degree in Accounting. CPA, Masters in Taxation, LLM in Taxation, or JD.
-A minimum of eight years of progressive federal tax consulting and/or compliance experience in public accounting or a combination of corporate and public accounting experience.
-Experience in Corporate, S-Corp. and/or Partnership returns.
-Superior analytical, technical, and tax accounting/technology skills with proficiency in US GAAP, tax compliance, corporate consolidated returns, consolidated federal tax returns, partnership returns, and combined state tax returns.
-Outstanding experience in staff and tax management in an integrated client service team.
-Ability to manage and develop staff in a highly interactive team environment.
-Demonstrated experience in practice development, business development, and managing other managers.
-Exceptional client service and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships.
-Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, interactive, results-based team environment.
-Outstanding leadership, business development, recruiting, training, coaching, and mentoring skills, coupled with excellent written, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
-Computer expertise including knowledge of tax software and technology.
-Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various client sites.

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Minimum Education Required: Bachelor

Years of Experience Required: More than 5 years

Expected Travel Time: About 25%