Job Description

As Tax Director your mission is to lead the firms tax department with both handsserving as the senior technical authority the primary driver of Tax Advisory Services (TAS) growth and the leader who develops the people and systems that make it all run. You will own the firms most important business unit sit on the firms leadership team and be responsible for delivering an exceptional client experience at every tier.

What Success Looks Like (Key Outcomes)

• Operational Excellence:   The tax department runs with consistency accountability and qualityreturns are accurate deadlines are met strategies are implemented and the team doesnt need to be managed to the clock.
• Team Health:   Your advisors and preparers are developed supported and performing well. Turnover is low. Standards are high.
• TAS Growth:   The advisory practice expands and deepens across the client base. TAS clients receive proactive high-value guidance and they feel it.
• Client Relationships:   High-value clients are retained well served and growing with the firm. The senior-most clients trust you personally.

What Youll Do

Lead Manage & Develop the Team

Directly LMA (Lead Manage Accountability) a team of tax advisors and preparers. You set the standard build the culture and make sure every person on your team has what they need to succeed. You are the reason the team gets better every year.

Grow the Tax Advisory Practice

Drive TAS engagements for Prime and Elite clientsproactive planning multi-scenario tax strategy and white-glove service delivery. You will be expected to participate in planning and executing the growth of this practice not just maintaining it.

Maintain a Strong Compliance Foundation

Own the quality and consistency of the compliance practice. Reviews get done right. Deadlines are met. The team doesnt cut corners because you dont.

Lead High-Impact Client Relationships

Serve as the firms senior client-facing presence for complex engagementsbusiness owners HNW individuals and multi-entity structures. Youll also support and elevate the relationships being managed across your advisory and compliance teams.

Training & Quality Assurance

Build and maintain the systems that keep the team sharptechnical training QA processes and the feedback loops that catch issues before they reach clients. Client success starts with team competence.

Be the Technical Authority

The firms most senior people should be able to come to you with their hardest questions. Compliance mastery and advisory fluency are both required. You lead teach and still do the work.

Firm Leadership

Youre not just running a departmentyoure a member of the firms leadership team responsible for its most important business unit. Strategic thinking technical acumen and a genuine leadership mindset are required for success in this role.

Qualifications :

Core Competencies (A-Player Qualities):

• Technical Mastery:  Deep expertise in tax planning compliance and complex return reviewbusiness and individual.
• Leadership & Management:  Skilled at coaching motivating and holding teammates accountable.
• Advisory Mindset:  You think proactively and creatively communicate tax strategy clearly and make clients feel like theyre in good hands.
• Problem Solver:  You diagnose difficult tax and financial situations quickly and propose smart defensible solutions.
• Ownership & Accountability:  You follow through. Full stop.
• Strategic Thinker:  You can zoom out from the work in front of you and contribute to where the firm is going.

Minimum Qualifications:

• CPA required; MS in Taxation strongly preferred
• 10 years of public accounting experience with meaningful time in a leadership or review capacity
• Mastery of tax strategy development. Ability to quickly diagnose a clients situation and sketch out the tactics to mitigate their tax exposure
• Deep fluency in individual and business taxation1040s 1120-S 1065 multi-state multi-entity structures
• Proven ability to build and maintain client relationships at the advisory level
• Experience managing or developing tax staff
• Comfortable in a growing firmyou bring structure not just headcount

Additional Information :

Our client offers you competitive pay and benefits:

Performance bonuses

401k employer match of 100% of contribution up to 4% of salary

Health insurance optional dental and vision

Additional workplace perks

If you feel you have the necessary qualifications please forward a current copy of your resume and state your salary requirements.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

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