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SALT-Income and Franchise Manager Job Identification 111646 Job Category Specialty Tax - Multi-state Posting Date 01/18/2025, 02:11 AM Degree Level Bachelor's Degree Job Schedule Full time Locations Milwaukee, WI, United States Appleton, WI, United States Job Description
As the Income/Franchise Tax Manager, you’ll deliver a full range of tax planning, consulting, and compliance services for your multiple clients – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. You’ll collaborate with the Income/Franchise team and lead staff on various tax matters, on all phases of project and engagement management, because together is how we succeed.
From day one, you’ll be empowered by high quality tools and resources to thrive in your role to meet client needs and help you achieve more, confidently.
Your day-to-day may include:
Manage, direct, and monitor multiple client services teams on client engagements; plan, execute, direct, and complete tax projects in a wide variety of industries; provide tax planning, consulting, and compliance expertise to clients; and manage budget Manage, develop, train, and mentor staff on tax projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews Deliver a full range of State and Local Tax services including tax return preparation and review, tax research, preparation of technical memorandums, drafting client correspondence, and counseling client in defending against state audits Manage multi-disciplinary, multi-state reviews that analyze income, franchise, sales and use, payroll, valorem taxes, and others to identify optimal filing options, exemptions, credits and incentives, and corporate structures that can reduce the client's tax burden Consult, work with, and service client to make recommendations on business and process improvement and serve as a business advisor to client Other duties as assigned
You have the following technical skills and qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Accounting Minimum six years of progressive tax compliance and/or tax consulting Active CPA license, JD with active law license in good standing, or Certified Member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation Excellent written and verbal communication skills Managers are required to manage various project tasks, at the same time Project managers will be ultimately responsible for the overall project and deliverable Support business development activities, such as identification, proposal development, and other pursuit activities at clients Strong computer skills Can travel as needed
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