Tax Director

Job Description:

Are you looking for a challenging opportunity to build your career in a specific industry and become an expert to the clients you serve?

Baker Tilly is seeking a Tax Director to join our team and provide federal tax compliance and consulting services to middle market clients.

As a Tax Director, you will work side-by-side with firm leadership to serve clients and build the business, having a direct impact on the firm's success.

You will also be a mentor and coach to a group of talented staff, utilizing your expertise to help develop their technical and professional skills.

Additionally, you will be responsible for managing client engagement staffing, billings/collections, and ensuring client profitability targets are met.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be a trusted member of the engagement team providing various federal tax compliance and consulting services to industry-specific clients.
• Be a valued tax business advisor, lead client relationships on day-to-day tax matters with various clients ranging from middle market to multinational.
• Consult on technical matters and special projects in various areas of corporate and flow-through taxation, accounting methods, and ASC 740.
• Research various tax matters, responding to IRS and other tax authority inquiries, and make recommendations to the client for consideration.
• Coordinate with specialty tax practices on complicated tax matters in the state and local, high net worth, international, research and development, along with credits and incentives areas.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or law, or a similar degree in business, masters or advanced degree desirable.
• CPA or JD required.
• Eight (8)+ years' experience providing federal tax compliance and consulting services in a professional services firm.
• Five (5)+ years' of supervisory experience, mentoring and counseling associates.
• Demonstrated management, analytical, organization, interpersonal, project management, communication skills.

What You'll Enjoy:

• Building your career in a specific industry and becoming an expert to the clients you serve.
• Working face-to-face with clients to find creative solutions to complex accounting and business challenges.
• Being a trusted business advisor and leading client relationships on day-to-day tax matters.
• Working for a leading CPA advisory firm that serves middle market clients and whose owners have both their clients' and employees' best interests in mind and are transparent in their decisions.

What You'll Do:

• Be a trusted member of the engagement team providing various federal tax compliance and consulting services to industry-specific clients.
• Be a valued tax business advisor, lead client relationships on day-to-day tax matters with various clients ranging from middle market to multinational.
• Consult on technical matters and special projects in various areas of corporate and flow-through taxation, accounting methods, and ASC 740.
• Research various tax matters, responding to IRS and other tax authority inquiries, and make recommendations to the client for consideration.
• Coordinate with specialty tax practices on complicated tax matters in the state and local, high net worth, international, research and development, along with credits and incentives areas.

Eligibility:

• Eligibility to work in the U.S. without sponsorship preferred.

Why Baker Tilly:

• We offer a dynamic and supportive work environment that encourages professional growth and development.
• We provide opportunities for career advancement and leadership development.
• We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package.