Bachelor's degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field required.
Advanced degree (Masters in taxation/LLM, PhD, MBA) or relevant certification required.
Minimum eight years of progressive tax and transfer pricing experience in public accounting, consulting, or academia.
Experience managing tax and transfer pricing in a client service team environment.
Proven ability to develop and manage staff in a collaborative setting.
Demonstrated experience in business development and managing teams.
Exceptional client service and communication skills.
Responsibilities
Oversee and direct multiple client services teams on transfer pricing projects.
Provide innovative tax planning, consulting, and compliance expertise to clients.
Lead business development activities, including proposal development.
Develop project vision and set challenging goals for client service teams.
Ensure quality assurance on all managed service offerings.
Facilitate client understanding of international tax implications.
Promote collaboration between service lines to enhance client service.
Benefits
Formal training opportunities and experiential on-the-job training.
Access to industry-leading expertise for skill development.
Empowerment to develop a broad and deep technical skill set.
Opportunities to work with a global team on complex business problems.
Support for attracting, developing, and retaining top talent.
Full Job Description
Job Description
As the Tax Transfer Pricing Director, a national business line role, you'll be responsible for the delivery of a full range of tax and transfer pricing services for multiple clients in a wide variety of industries and market segments. You'll collaborate closely with partners and managing directors while teaming with managers, associates, and other teammates from around the globe to help clients identify and solve complex business problems through deploying a wide range of Grant Thornton solutions in a collaborative manner, ensuring quality above all, because together is how we succeed.
From day one, you'll be empowered by formal training opportunities, experiential (on the job) training and access to industry leading expertise to help you develop a broad and deep technical skill set along with increased business acumen to help you achieve more, confidently.
Your day-to-day may include:
Overseeing and directing the efforts of multiple client services teams on client engagements; planning, executing, directing, and completing transfer pricing projects; providing innovative tax planning, consulting, and compliance expertise to clients; marketing, selling, designing, and implementing tax-planning strategies for clients and managing engagements to budget
Overseeing the delivery of a full range of transfer pricing services and advising U.S. and foreign multinational companies on the tax implications of their international operations as well as coordinating U.S. tax laws with foreign tax laws to develop an efficient worldwide tax strategy
Lead and support business development activities, such as identification, proposal development and other pursuit activities at clients
Developing a project vision and setting challenging personal and client service team goals
Responsible for quality assurance on all managed service offerings
Facilitating client understanding of international tax development implications
Working closely with partners, managers, and associates to integrate practice development skills into a team approach to client service and new business development
Promoting collaboration between service lines and industries to provide high-quality client service
Attracting, developing, and retaining top talent for the Tax Practice
Other job duties as assigned
You have the following technical skills and qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field required
Masters in taxation /LLM, Master of Economics, PhD in Economics, Finance, Business Statistics, Tax or Supply Chain, Engineering, MBA, other advanced degree, related certification or relevant experience required
Minimum eight years of progressive tax and transfer pricing experience in public accounting, consulting, or academia
Experience in tax and transfer pricing management in an integrated client service team
Ability to manage and develop staff in a highly interactive team environment
Demonstrated experience in practice development, business development, and managing other managers
Exceptional client service and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Computer expertise including knowledge of tax software and technology
Can travel as needed
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