Corporate Tax Leader

Job Description

Job Description

Ranked among the largest assurance, tax and advisory firms in the U.S., Cherry Bekaert has been providing superior tax, audit, and advisory solutions across the globe for 75+ years.

Ranked 1st as the Fastest Growing Firms in the U.S. 2024’ by Accounting Today , our strategy is to be digitally driven, industry-aligned, and focused on the middle market.

In order to continue our rapid growth and success in providing compliance, planning, and consulting services to our clients, we’re currently seeking a practice builder to be our firm’s next Corporate Tax Leader.

In this highly visible leadership role, you’ll be responsible for designing, leading and building the firm’s corporate tax practice focused on tax compliance and tax provision outsourcing for middle-market, private equity backed and public companies.

Your key responsibilities will include :

• Consistently grow the practice through expansion of services to existing clients, cross selling with other advisory practices, and obtaining new clients.
• Execute the Firm and Tax Service Line vision, strategy, and goals for the corporate tax practice, as well as support other leaders in their execution of the strategic plan.
• Ensure discipline around execution of Service Line business processes and Firm business practices for the corporate tax practice.
• Manage the utilization and productivity of professionals in the practice to achieve operational and financial targets.
• Utilize leadership skills, acting as a role model, to provide coaching, mentoring, and training in the development of partners and professionals within the practice and build a talent pipeline with the requisite technical expertise.
• Drive consistency, collaboration and communication among Service Line, Market Leaders, Shared Service Leaders, Advisory and Industry Leaders as well as with other stakeholders.
• Develop the Corporate Tax annual budget and drive results against budget and key performance indicators throughout the year for the practice.

This role may be based out of many of our offices. Limited travel should be expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting. Masters preferred.
• Must be CPA certified and have an active CPA license.
• Minimum of 15 years of corporate federal and multi-state tax consulting and compliance experience in public accounting or a combination of corporate and public accounting experience.
• Technical ASC 740 experience including expertise in corporate tax compliance, planning, and provision.
• Demonstrated experience in driving growth and building an office, practice, industry group, service line or similar
• Ability to drive success (results) through the influencing of Partners (behaviors).

What We Offer You

• Entrepreneurial environment focused on professional development, career advancement, and performance and rewards opportunities
• Supportive partnership group with a one firm mentality and a commitment to colleagues’ success
• Big firm resources and bench strength; small firm flexibility and openness to new ideas
• Defined metrics and targets that eliminate ambiguity
• Flexible work arrangements with generous PTO, including a firmwide week off for the 4th of July
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About Cherry Bekaert

Cherry Bekaert, ranked among the largest assurance, tax and advisory firms in the U.S., serves clients across industries in all 50 U.

S. states and internationally. Cherry Bekaert is the brand name under which Cherry Bekaert LLP and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC, independently owned entities, provide professional services in an alternative practice structure in accordance with applicable professional standards.

Cherry Bekaert LLP is a licensed CPA firm that provides attest services, and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities provide business advisory and non-attest services spanning the areas of transaction advisory, risk and accounting advisory, digital solutions, cybersecurity, tax, benefits consulting, and wealth management.

For more details, visit cbh.com / disclosure.

Cherry Bekaert cares about our people. We offer competitive compensation packages based on performance that recognize the value our people bring to our clients and our Firm.

In addition, we offer a comprehensive, high-quality benefits program which includes annual bonus, medical, dental, and vision care;

disability and life insurance; generous Paid Time Off; retirement plans; Paid Care Leave; and other programs that are dedicated to enhancing your personal and work life and providing you and your family with a measure of financial protection.

Cherry Bekaert provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

This role is expected to accept applications for at least five calendar days.

Candidates must demonstrate eligibility to work in the United States. Cherry Bekaert will not provide work sponsorship for this position.

Cherry Bekaert LLP and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC are members of Allinial Global, an accountancy and business advisory global association.

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