Tax Managing Director, International Tax Services
Company: BDO
Location: Denver
Posted on: May 18, 2024
Job Description:
Job Summary:
An International Tax Managing Director is responsible for growing
the International Tax practice by providing practical tax advice to
clients, building relationships with existing clients and prospects
to expand the practice, and developing a local team. -In this role,
the Managing Director will be expected to have marketable technical
skills and have a proven track record of being a problem solver and
maintaining key client relationships. Written and verbal
communications must be excellent. -
Job Duties:
- Tax Consulting
- Develops, recommends and implements practical international tax
consulting ideas related to client situations
- Ensures client service teams comply with firm policy regarding
Written Tax Advice (WTA) -
- Identifies and resolves complex taxation issues by applying
multiple tax functional specialties
- Communicates complex technical matters to clients and other
appropriate audiences to ensure relevant issues are understood and
resolved, as needed
- Tax Specialization
- Continues to develop an in-depth understanding of the technical
and practical issues and opportunities regarding international tax
-
- Acts as industry expert in international tax and serves as U.S.
resource for tax matters with selected foreign
jurisdictions
- Manages international tax services provided to assigned
clients, including assessment of appropriate pricing structure for
services
- Identifies opportunities for tax alerts in areas of specialty
and collaborates with National Tax Office on drafting of those
alerts
- Marketing and Business Development
- Exhibits thought leadership in a specialized area within
International Tax
- Recognized as industry group go-to person in International
Tax
- Works with Specialized Tax Services and International Tax
Partners, Local Office Managing Partner and local and Regional
Business Development Manager to develop and execute an effective
marketing plan
- Builds effective go-to-market strategies with Assurance
Partners
- Research
- Identifies complex situations when research is necessary
providing an outline of the issue(s) and the appropriate source of
research to be conducted
- Analyzes researched facts and -the sources utilized prior to
composing a detailed report of the research findings
- Prepares Written Tax Advice (WTA) and confers with National Tax
Office, as appropriate
- Tax Compliance
- Manages client engagements and conducts detailed review of
international tax aspects of U.S. tax reporting and other client
supplied data and identifies complex and advanced issues throughout
the engagement
- Leverages compliance role to identify additional international
tax issues and opportunities
- Tax Controversy
- Represents clients before U.S. tax authorities on international
tax aspects of contested issues
- ASC 740-10 -
- Applies standards, Firm policies and BDO Tax Quality Manual
requirements -
- Reviews international aspects of tax provisions including
coordination of BDO colleagues in non-U.S. jurisdictions
- Other duties as required
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Supervises the day-to-day workload of International Tax
Managers, Senior Associates, Associates, and Interns on assigned
engagements and reviews work product and ensures their technical
development
- Delivers periodic performance feedback and completes
performance evaluations for International Tax Managers, Senior
Associates and Associates and Interns
- Acts as mentor to International Tax Managers, Senior
Associates, Associates, and Interns, as appropriate
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree, required, degree with a focus in Accounting,
preferred -
- J. D., LLM, and/or MST/MBT, preferred
Experience:
- Ten (10) or more years of prior experience in corporate tax,
international taxation, legal professional services or equivalent
experience gained through an advanced degree -program,
required
- Experience in International Tax, required
- Prior experience supervising tax professionals on a project or
engagement basis, required
License/Certifications:
- CPA certification, Attorney (admitted to practice in a U.S.
jurisdiction), or Internal Revenue Service Enrolled Agent ("EA") or
the equivalent of one of these designations), required -
Software:
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, specifically
Word, Excel and PowerPoint, preferred
- Experience utilizing RIA, BNA, Lexis Nexis and/or Westlaw,
preferred
- Language:
- N/A
Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Self-starter and conscientious
- Executive presence and ability to act as primary contact on
assigned engagements
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Superior analytical and legal and tax research skills including
building models and analysis of financial and numerical
data
- Strong organizational skills, especially ability to meet
project deadlines with a focus on details
- Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently
or within a group environment
- Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment and handle
multiple projects simultaneously -
- Capable of effectively managing a team of tax professionals and
delegating work assignments as needed
- Capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with
internal and client personnel -
- Ability to encourage team environment on engagements and
contribute to the professional development of assigned
personnel
- Ability to successfully interact with professionals at all
levels
- Advanced knowledge of sources of relevant information utilized
in tax filings as well as the most widely-used filing forms and
awareness of other less widely used forms
- Advanced understanding of the technical and practical issues
and opportunities regarding one or more areas of taxation and
law
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of general calculations
and cause / effect for taxable conditions on clients and the
potential tax issues
Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined
after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited
to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and
geography.
Range: -$150,000 - $400,000 -
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Keywords: BDO, Parker , Tax Managing Director, International Tax Services, Executive , Denver, Colorado
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