Corporate Tax Director

Description

Corporate Tax Director - (US, Denver, CO)

Position Summary

Reporting to the Principal, the Corporate Tax Director will be responsible for functioning as the lead contact on client engagements / assignments. The Director will oversee planning, project management, staff utilization, and engagement supervision.

What will you do in this role?

• Oversee the efforts of multiple client engagements, including supervising tax planning and business succession planning engagements with the ability to manage a budget.
• Manage client compliance engagements independently of the principals from start to finish.
• Consult with Principals, businesses, and individual tax clients on various matters.
• Develop people through effective supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff.
• Conducts performance reviews and contributes to performance feedback for all levels of staff.
• Assist Principals and Senior Leaders in 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's 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.
• Articulate tax planning opportunities & recommendations to clientele.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key client sponsors while growing the client base.
• Responsible for signing returns and work papers.

What do you need to succeed in this role?

• BA/BS degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Ten (10) plus current years' experience in progressive public accounting
• Eight (8) plus years' experience leading high performing teams, coaching, and mentoring staff
• CPA or EA certification, required
• Prior leadership in a tax role, preferably in another public accounting firm
• Strong background in either partnership taxation, or multi-state S corporations, proficiency in tax matters affecting clients in real estate, government contracting or technology
• Proficient with computerized tax software and Microsoft Office
• Strong client rapport and project management skills
• Ability to manage projects independently of principals
• Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, interactive, result-based team environment
• Strong leadership, recruiting, training, and mentoring skills coupled with excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
• Significant track record of mentoring and coaching accounting and tax professionals

In compliance with this state's pay transparency laws, the base compensation range (25%-50%-75%) for this role is $178,880.63 - $200,970.96 - $220,000.97. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.

In addition, specific skills/experience required are as follows:

• Servant Leader - You are hyper focused on engaging employees, fostering their development, and building a positive culture.
• Solutions Focused - You see opportunities in every business problem and can develop, articulate, and implement solutions.
• Collaboration - You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
• Instills Trust - You do what you say, and you follow through on commitments, you act with integrity, you are consistent and are perceived as credible.
• Impact & Influence Thinking - You gain support for ideas, proposals, and solutions, and get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives/objectives.

Sikich 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:

• 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.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Sikich, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
• 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. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.

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
• 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.

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Sikich practices in an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Sikich CPA LLC is a licensed CPA firm that provides audit and attest services to its clients, and Sikich LLC and its subsidiaries provide tax and business advisory services to its clients. Sikich CPA LLC has a contractual arrangement with Sikich LLC under which Sikich LLC supports Sikich CPA LLC's performance of its professional services. Sikich LLC and its subsidiaries are not licensed CPA firms.

"Sikich" is the brand name under which Sikich CPA LLC and Sikich LLC provide professional services. The entities under the Sikich brand are independently owned and are not liable for the services provided by any other entity providing services under the Sikich brand. The use of the terms "our company", "we" and "us" and other similar terms denote the alternative practice structure of Sikich CPA LLC and Sikich LLC.

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