- Own and manage key multinational client relationships, serving as a trusted advisor and primary point of coordination across international and domestic tax service needs.
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Responsibilities
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Responsibilities: - Own and manage key multinational client relationships, serving as a trusted advisor and primary point of coordination across international and domestic tax service needs. - Lead integrated tax engagements for inbound and outbound multinational companies, with accountability for scope, quality, timelines, staffing, budgets, risk management, and client communication. - Oversee U.S. corporate and partnership tax compliance, including Forms 1120, 1065, and 1120-F, extensions, estimated tax payments, and related elections and disclosures, as well as state and local filing requirements. - Review complex U.S. international tax forms, computations, disclosures, and workpapers, including Forms 5471, 5472, 8858, 8865, 1118, 1042, 1042-S, 8991, 8992, and 8993, as applicable. - Advise on inbound and outbound matters involving Subpart F, NCTI, foreign tax credits, Section 163(j), FDDEI, BEAT, Section 245A, PTEP, tax treaties, withholding, and cross-border structuring. - Consult with clients on tax-efficient structuring of international transactions, the effective use of tax treaties, planning for foreign investment activities, and repatriation programs designed to minimize U.S. and foreign income taxes. - Connect international tax positions to domestic tax consequences, including taxable income, attributes, estimated payments, tax accounting, transaction reporting, and state tax implications. - Identify planning opportunities and compliance risks across the client’s full tax profile, translate technical issues into practical recommendations, and coordinate implementation with client finance teams and internal specialists. - Collaborate with state and local tax, transfer pricing, tax provision, transaction advisory, employment tax, and other firm professionals to provide seamless service to multinational clients. - Develop and mentor engagement teams, review work, deliver technical training, and promote consistent, scalable processes and technology-enabled service delivery. - Support proposals, engagement scoping, fee management, and expansion of multidisciplinary relationships with existing and prospective clients.
Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance, or a related field. - 5+ years of relevant public accounting, law firm, or multinational corporate tax experience, including significant U.S. international tax experience. - Demonstrated experience managing international tax accounts and advising inbound or outbound multinational companies. - Strong working knowledge of U.S. international tax compliance and the related U.S. federal domestic tax requirements for corporations. - Experience reviewing both international information returns and domestic income tax returns, computations, elections, disclosures, and supporting workpapers. - Proven ability to understand a client’s broader tax profile, identify interdependencies, and coordinate specialists across multiple tax disciplines. - Experience managing multiple engagements, client expectations, budgets, deadlines, and teams while maintaining a high standard of quality. - Strong technical research, analytical, project management, and problem-solving skills. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the judgment and executive presence to advise finance and tax leaders. - Preferred Qualifications - CPA, JD, EA, or other relevant professional credential; master’s degree in Taxation or Accounting, JD, or LLM in Taxation preferred. - Experience with a national, Big Four, or large regional public accounting firm serving multinational companies. - Experience with ASC 740, transfer pricing, state and local tax coordination, cross-border transaction support, or international tax modeling. - Experience with CCH Axcess, BNA, Checkpoint, international tax compliance software, automation, or advanced Excel modeling. #LI-AF1 #LI-Hybrid
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