Grant Thornton LLP/Dallas, TXTax Senior Manager â?? State & Local Tax â?? Income & Franchise Tax
Position Summary:
The Senior State and Local 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.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
· Oversee the efforts of multiple client services teams on client engagements; plan, execute, direct, and complete tax projects in a wide variety of industries; and market, sell, design, and implement innovative tax-planning strategies for clients; and manage to budget.
· Manage, develop, train, and mentor staff on tax projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews.
· Deliver a full range of State and Local Tax services including tax return preparation and review, tax research, preparation of technical memorandums, drafting client correspondence, and counseling client in defending against state audits.
· Oversee multi-disciplinary, multi-state reviews with specific emphasis on state & local income and franchise taxes.
· Consult, work with, and service client to make recommendations on business and process improvement and serve as a business advisor to client.
· Use established network of business relationships within industry groups to generate new sales opportunities.
Required Skills and Experience:
· Bachelor's degree in Accounting. CPA, Masters in Taxation, LLM in Taxation, or JD.
· A minimum of eight years of progressive State and Local Tax consulting and/or compliance experience in public accounting or a combination of corporate and public accounting experience.
· Broad exposure to State and Local Taxes including knowledge in State Income/Franchise Tax, Credits and Incentives, Sales and Use Tax; must be eager to work on a variety of SALT issues and not specialize in one particular area. Experience identifying, negotiating and implementing state & local economic development incentive programs. Specific expertise in state & local income and franchise taxes is required.
· Superior analytical, technical, and tax accounting/technology skills with proficiency in US GAAP, tax compliance, corporate consolidated returns, and combined state tax returns.
· Outstanding leadership, business development, recruiting, training, coaching, and mentoring skills, coupled with excellent written, interpersonal, and presentation skills. Established relationships with various state & local economic development officials and offices;
· Computer expertise including knowledge of tax software and technology.
Additional Information:
· Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various client sites.
Benefits:
Grant Thornton LLP promotes a nationally recognized culture of health and offers an extensive array of benefits to meet individual lifestyles. For a complete list of benefits please visit www.gt.com.
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