Deloitte US

Do you have excellent tax compliance skills and a strong desire to join a cutting-edge team? Do you like working to help companies achieve their tax objectives and their individual risk profiles? Do you have a passion for a unique and challenging role? If so, we have the career opportunity to keep you intrigued well beyond the tax code! 

Work you’ll do

As a Tax Manager in the FTS-DART group, you will provide tax consulting and compliance services to a diverse client base in various industry sectors. You will work directly with the client, manage the tax engagement team, have access to an elite group of specialists when needed, and be connected to a strong support system from firm leadership to ensure you are set up for success in your role and career. Responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining and developing strong client relationships on various tax engagements.
• Overseeing complex federal tax compliance and consulting projects requiring tax analysis for a variety of entities and their affiliates.
• Managing engagement workflow, engagement team resources, and engagement billing.
• Providing leadership, counseling, and career guidance for the development and motivation of the engagement team, both domestically and internationally.
• Assist in marketplace targeting, including preparing client specific or industry wide marketing materials. 

The team

National Federal Tax Services (NFTS) is a national practice within Deloitte Tax LLP made up of multiple tax service offerings, including Global Tax Depreciation Services. Each NFTS service offering has been developed and built in response to a tax planning opportunity, a marketplace need, or a technological innovation with the purpose of delivering results for our clients. Our people are entrepreneurial in spirit and have always had the work-hard/play-hard mentality. Team members within NFTS are viewed as tax specialists. 

Deloitte's tax professionals use our proprietary Depreciation Analysis & Reporting Tool (DART) to help clients drive efficient tax cost recovery calculations and planning through advanced technologies and data analytics. Specifically, they specialize in a wide variety of services related to fixed assets, such as:

• Assisting Clients with annual and interim cost recovery computations, including computing depreciation and gain/loss to support federal and state returns;
• Preparing state tax depreciation schedules and related adjustments for states that have decoupled from federal tax depreciation;
• Preparing and helping establish additional sets of tax depreciation books, such as Earnings and Profits (E&P) and non-confirming state regimes;
• Leveraging and utilizing advanced global tax depreciation data analytics and visualizations to help identify tax planning considerations, potential tax risks related to Client’s fixed asset data, and identify potential cash tax savings; 
• Assisting Clients with the analysis and validation of the of their carried PP&E timing differences and the related federal and state deferred tax balances;
• Computing tax depreciation for financial forecasts, tax provision, long-range planning, and cash-tax planning;
• Assisting Clients with RFP development, tax fixed asset vendor demonstrations and tax depreciation software selection;
• Helping Clients with fixed asset system implementations or upgrades; 

Qualifications

Required: 

• Ability to perform job responsibilities within a hybrid work model that requires US Tax professionals to co-locate in person 2 – 3 days per week
• 5+ years’ experience in core federal tax compliance, including federal and/or international
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or other business-related field
• Ability to travel up to 25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• One of the following active accreditations obtained: 
• Licensed CPA in state of practice/primary office if eligible to sit for the CPA
• If not CPA eligible:
• Licensed attorney
• Enrolled Agent
• Certifications:
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Chartered Financial Advisor (CFA)

Preferred:

• Advanced degree such as MST or MAcc
• Mid-Level to Advanced skills in MS Project, Word, Excel, and Tax Depreciation Software
• Self-starter with demonstrated ability to effectively handle multiple, competing priorities
• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior colleagues
• Self-starter with demonstrated ability to effectively handle multiple, competing priorities
• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with a management and executive presence
• Highly disciplined and able to work under strict deadlines in fast-paced collegial environment
• Previous Big 4 or large CPA firm experience or equivalent