Manager / Senior Manager, Family Enterprise Tax

KPMG

• $125K — $150K *
Legal & Accounting
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum eight years of recent tax experience in public accounting or related fields
  • Bachelor's degree required; CPA, EA, or JD/LLM license mandatory
  • Deep technical knowledge in individual, trust, estate taxation and wealth transfer planning
  • Significant experience with partnership taxation and closely held business structures
  • Exposure to asset management, alternative investments, and private equity preferred
  • Proven success in leading client engagements and mentoring teams
  • Strong communication and business development skills to drive practice growth

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted advisor in strategic tax planning for family enterprises and high-net-worth individuals
  • Lead complex tax engagements involving family-owned businesses and multi-generational wealth
  • Build and expand client relationships, delivering exceptional service and identifying new opportunities
  • Direct engagement teams, providing oversight, quality control, and professional mentorship
  • Manage engagement economics including staffing, budgeting, and risk management
  • Drive growth of the family enterprise practice through business development and collaboration
  • Uphold KPMG's standards of integrity, professionalism, and a respectful work environment

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental plans, vision coverage
  • Disability and life insurance options
  • 401(k) plans available
  • Generous personal time off and holiday calendar breaks
  • Robust mental health and personal well-being benefits
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to family enterprises, family offices, high-net-worth individuals, trusts, estates, and closely held businesses by delivering strategic tax planning, compliance, and advisory services
  • Lead and oversee complex individual, gift, estate, trust, partnership, and business tax engagements, including matters involving family-owned operating businesses, investment structures, and multi-generational wealth planning
  • Build, manage, and expand relationships with clients, acting as a primary point of contact while delivering exceptional client service and identifying opportunities to provide additional value
  • Direct multiple engagement teams, providing technical leadership, engagement oversight, quality control, and mentorship to tax professionals across the practice
  • Manage engagement economics, including project planning, staffing, budgets, billing, collections, risk management, and overall financial performance
  • Drive the growth of the family enterprise practice through business development, thought leadership, process improvement initiatives, market-facing activities, and collaboration across KPMG private, asset management, and other specialty tax groups
  • Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications
  • Minimum eight years of recent tax experience serving family enterprises, family offices, high-net-worth individuals, trusts and estates, privately held businesses, partnerships, or related clients within a public accounting firm, corporate tax department, or law firm
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university required; licensed CPA, EA or JD/LLM, in addition to others on KPMG's approved credential listing; any individual who does not possess at least one of the approved designations/credentials when their employment commences, has one year from their date of hire to obtain at least one of the approved designations/credentials; should you like to see the complete list of currently approved designations/credentials for the hiring practice/service line, your recruiter can provide you with that list
  • Deep technical knowledge of individual income tax, trust taxation, estate and gift taxation, family office tax matters, and wealth transfer planning strategies
  • Significant experience with partnership taxation, pass-through entities, operating partnerships, partnership allocations, and closely held business structures
  • Exposure to asset management, alternative investments, private equity, hedge funds, venture capital, or investment partnership taxation preferred
  • Proven success leading multiple client engagements, managing large teams, mentoring professionals, and developing long-term client relationships
  • Strong business development, advisory, communication, and leadership skills with the ability to articulate complex tax matters and drive practice growth

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