Tax Manager, Private Wealth

Overview

Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers – New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.

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Job Description:

 

Join Baker Tilly as a Tax Manager with our Private Wealth/High Net Worth team! This is a great opportunity to be a valued advisor delivering tax and business advisory services and tax compliance to High-Net-Worth individuals and trusts. You will work side-by-side with firm leadership to serve clients and build the business, having a direct impact on the firm’s success. Additionally, you will be a mentor and a coach to a group of talented staff, utilizing your experience to help develop their technical and professional skills. If you are invigorated by these exciting challenges, then this could be the right opportunity for you! As one of the fastest growing firms in the nation, BT has the ability to offer you upward career trajectory, flexibility in how and where you get your work done and meaningful relationships with clients, teammates and leadership who truly care about you and your development.

You’ll enjoy this role if: 

• You are looking for an opportunity to expand your career in high-net-worth individual tax and advisory, becoming an expert to the clients you serve
• You can see yourself as a trusted advisor, working face-to-face with clients to find creative solutions to complex tax challenges
• You want to work for a leading CPA advisory firm who serves their clients with their clients’ and employees’ best interests in mind and are transparent in their decisions
• You value your development and want to work for a firm that provides you the autonomy to own your schedule and career through programs (ask us about My Time Off, My Development and Dress for Your Day!)
• You want to contribute to your engagement team’s professional growth and enhance your own skills to build a career with opportunities now, for tomorrow

What you will do:

• Assist in providing compliance and consulting services to high-net-worth individuals, multi-generational affluent families, family offices and their private businesses and/or investment entities:
  • Perform complex individual, partnership, S-corp, trust, estate, gift and state tax returns
  • Work on multiple engagements that deliver proactive tax planning and strategic consulting including federal estate, gift, charitable planning and generation skipping tax
  • Build on technical competence by keeping up-to-date on trends, developments and technical authorities and apply them to complex situations
• Learn and grow from direct and on the job coaching and mentoring along with participating in firm wide learning and development programs
• Utilize your entrepreneurial skills to network and build strong relationships internally and externally with clients
• Support the growth and development of team members 

• Enjoy friendships, social activities and team outings that encourage a work-life balance

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• 4-year degree
• CPA, EA or Law License
• Five (5) years of experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, master's or advanced degree desirable

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience providing federal and state tax compliance, accounting and advisory services in a professional services firm
• Two (2)+ years of supervisory experience, mentoring and counseling associates preferred
• Demonstrated management, analytical, organization, interpersonal, project management, communication skills
• Ability to lead and supervise others, provide exceptional client service, demonstrate commitment to continuous learning in order to stay current regarding applicable strategies, see the "big picture" as well as the details, display appropriate ethical knowledge and commitment, and exhibit a sense of urgency and commitment to quality and the timely completion of projects
• Highly developed software and Microsoft Suite skills
• Eligibility to work in the U.S. without sponsorship preferred

The pay range for this position is $108,000 to $161,200. This range represents a good-faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation the firm expects to pay for this position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will depend on a variety of relevant factors, including an applicant’s skills, experience, qualifications, professional certifications, work arrangements, geographic location, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range, and compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. Baker Tilly offers a compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.