What You'll Do

As a Senior Director on the Transactions Tax team within our Tax Services practice, you will work closely with the team to deliver excellent client service. This Senior Director will leverage deep tax technical expertise to:

• Support corporate and private equity clients with tax due diligence, structuring, and modeling across buy-side and sell-side transactions, as well as deal execution and integration planning
• Prepare client-ready tax due diligence reports for C-suite audiences
• Direct complex tax research and develop tax planning strategies
• Apply and interpret state tax laws in due diligence across income/franchise, gross receipts, sales/use, property, employment taxes, and unclaimed property
• Review and comment on tax aspects of financial models, structuring analyses, purchase agreements, and disclosure schedules
• Assist clients with a broad range of state tax matters, including compliance, planning, and controversies across multistate operations
• Evaluate multistate tax footprint, including nexus and filing obligations, and advise on state tax implications of operational changes across income and non-income taxes
• Review state income/franchise tax returns throughout the preparation and filing process
• Support alignment of state tax compliance, reporting, and systems across entities and jurisdictions related to changes in business operations, transactions, or reorganizations
• Manage assigned workstreams end-to-end, delivering high-quality outputs, enabling timely review, and adapting to evolving priorities
• Maintain effective communication with clients and engagement team members, while keeping senior team members informed of progress and key issues
• Identify and track pull-through opportunities and additional services arising from client needs and transaction dynamics
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through consistent delivery, responsiveness, and thoughtful insight
• Contribute to team development by providing guidance, feedback, and mentorship to junior team members

How You'll Grow

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance and expand your background across tax, engagement management, and project delivery, while also gaining valuable management and developmental experience. You will have the opportunity to partner with our internal teams and diverse clients across various industries and continue to grow in new and complex functional areas and technologies. Our Transactions Tax team provides corporate and private equity clients with a broad continuum of tax advisory services to support mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives and post-transaction activities. Collaborating with clients in all stages of the deal life cycle, you will work with clients across corporate functions such as finance, treasury, human resources, operations, information technology and risk management to analyze and evaluate the tax profile and to implement planning designed to help meet each organization's global goals, strategies and business objectives.

What You Will Need To Succeed

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field of study
• 8+ years of post-graduate combined professional experience
• Ability to travel to clients and FTI office(s)

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; the employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas

Preferred Qualifications

• MS, JD and/or CPA
• 6+ years of state and local tax experience with a national public accounting firm, law firm, or corporate tax department of a multinational company
• Experience with tax due diligence, structuring, and/or modeling in a transaction environment
• Experience with multistate income tax compliance for corporate and flow-through structures
• Strong knowledge of state income and non-income taxes, and unclaimed property
• Demonstrated ability to manage workstreams and collaborate effectively across engagement teams
• Strong analytical and research skills, with the ability to effectively analyze and apply rules across a broad range of tax areas and client situations
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and project management skills
• Proficiency in MS Office suite, including MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Exposure to and familiarity with standard tax applications and research tools

Compensation
Minimum Pay: $154,500
Maximum Pay: $302,000

Compensation Disclosure: The compensation range reflects potential base salary for the role. Actual compensation is determined based on a wide array of relevant factors including market considerations, business needs, and an individual's location, skills, level of experience, and qualifications.