Tax Manager at Tax in Florham Park, NJ

Job description

• Are you seeking an opportunity to join a fast-growing and employee-centric firm and possess a desire for career growth? Then we encourage you to apply! We are currently seeking a Tax Manager to join our growing firm. We offer a flexible hybrid work schedule and support work/life balance.
• Our company has received numerous accolades, including being recognized as a "Best Accounting Firm to Work For", a “Best Firm for Young Accountants”, a "Best Place to Work" in PA, NJ, and NC, featured as an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in the nation, and recently debuted on INSIDE Public Accounting's Top 100 Firms in the Nation in 2023!
• The Manager, Tax will be responsible for leading and managing client tax engagements, including corporate federal and state income tax compliance, tax research, planning, and provision services. This role oversees project execution, manages client communication and expectations, and supports the development, training, and mentoring of senior and staff team members.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management and leadership of client projects. This includes establishing/maintaining project plans, sharing these timely with the team, holding team meetings, preparing agendas, running the meetings so as to achieve the meeting objectives, sending follow-up communication, and making sure open items are recorded and completed timely.
• Review complex consolidated and standalone corporate federal and state income tax returns, including unitary and combined filings
• Conduct federal and state tax research and draft/review memorandums to support tax return filing positions
• Advise clients on a full spectrum of corporate tax services, including planning, research, compliance, and provision.
• Plan, execute, direct, and complete tax projects in a wide variety of industries.
• Manage several client engagements concurrently from beginning to end, including preparation of scope, budget, resource needs, etc.
• Develop, train, motivate, and mentor seniors and staff
• Maintain active communication with clients to manage expectations, ensure satisfaction, meet deadlines, and proactively lead change efforts

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, and/or related field is required
• A master’s degree and/ or an advanced degree is a preferred
• A CPA is desired but not required but preferred
• A minimum of 5 years of corporate income tax preparation and/or experience working in either a corporate tax department or professional services environment
• Proficient experience with requirements of ASC 740 and the ability to prepare income tax accrual calculations, including quarterly and annual journal entries, footnotes, tax account roll forwards and reconciliations
• Demonstrated leadership, business development, training, coaching, and mentoring skills
• Experience with corporate tax preparation software: Corptax, ONESOURCE, or GoSystem RS preferred
• Working knowledge with online tax research tools (CCH, RIA, BNA)
• Ability to travel up to 5-10%
• Excellent communication skills
• Exemplary time management and organizational skills
• High attention to detail and level of accuracy
• High degree of tact, judgment and discretion
• Experience in Microsoft Office suite

Skills

Required

• Corporate income tax preparation
• ASC 740
• Income tax accrual calculations
• Tax research
• Tax planning
• Tax provision
• Leadership
• Business development
• Training
• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Microsoft Office suite

Preferred

• CPA
• Corptax
• ONESOURCE
• GoSystem RS