Tax Director

4 weeks ago

Springfield, Illinois, United States Sikich Full time
Unlock Your Potential as a Tax Director at Sikich

Sikich is a global leader in accounting, advisory, and technical professional services. We're seeking a highly skilled Tax Director to join our team and drive growth in our tax practice.

About the Role

As a Tax Director at Sikich, you will be responsible for leading high-performing teams, coaching, and mentoring staff. You will oversee multiple client engagements, including tax planning and business succession planning, and consult with partners, business, and individual tax clients on various matters.

Key Responsibilities
  • Prior leadership in a tax role, preferably in another public accounting firm.
  • Oversee the efforts of multiple client engagements, including supervising tax planning and business succession planning engagements with the ability to manage to budget.
  • Consult with partners, business, and individual tax clients on various matters.
  • Work with other CPA and Advisory and Technology service team members to provide comprehensive business solutions to middle market businesses and their stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key client sponsors and growing client base.
  • Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff.
  • Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff.
  • Assist partners and senior leaders with generating new business opportunities and building client networks and relationships.
  • Understand our service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients with our comprehensive solutions.
  • Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining, and training our team of up-and-coming professionals.
  • Ensure professional development through ongoing education.
  • Provide thought leadership and insightful recommendations surrounding a broad range of complex issues by leveraging expertise and experience.
  • Significant track record of mentoring & coaching accounting & tax professionals.
  • The ability to articulate tax planning opportunities & recommendations to clientele.
  • Ability to demonstrate enthusiastic & cooperative partnership spirit.
Requirements
  • BA/BS Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
  • 10+ years' current and progressive public accounting experience.
  • 8+ years' experience leading high-performing teams, coaching, and mentoring staff.
  • CPA or EA certification.
  • Proficiency with computerized tax software & Microsoft Office.
  • Strong client rapport & project management skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, interactive, results-based team environment.
  • Strong leadership, recruiting, training, and mentoring skills, coupled with excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
  • Champion our firm and provide strategic direction.
About Sikich

Sikich is a global company specializing in Accounting, Advisory, and Technical professional services. With employees across the globe, Sikich ranks as one of the largest professional services companies in the United States. Our comprehensive skillsets, obtained over decades of experience as entrepreneurs, business owners, and industry innovators, allow us to provide insights and transformative strategies to help strengthen every dimension of our clients' businesses.

Total Rewards

Our team members enjoy expansive benefits ranging from competitive compensation and insurance options to wellness programs and a flexible time off policy, to name only a few. Sikich also takes pride in prioritizing team members' health, total wellbeing, and time spent with family, friends, and in the pursuit of personal goals, hobbies, and endeavors.

Some examples of our many benefits include:

  • Sikich maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.).
  • Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
  • Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge, and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing.

We also offer flexible work arrangements, health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options, HSA employer contribution, nine (9) paid holidays annually, a robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children, 401(k) with employer contributions, CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days, tuition reimbursement, generous employee referral bonus program, client referral bonus program, pet insurance, and FORCE - Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.

Want to learn more? Visit our Careers website or Glassdoor profile.

Sikich is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

Sikich currently practices as an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Sikich CPA is a licensed CPA firm and provides audit and attest services to its clients. Sikich has a contractual arrangement with Sikich CPA whereby Sikich provides Sikich CPA with professional and support personnel and other support services to allow Sikich CPA to perform its professional services and Sikich CPA consults with Sikich and shares client information with Sikich with respect to the provision of such services.

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