Attorney in Albany, NY

In-House

Albany, NY

Attorney in Albany, NY

Non-practicing Attorney

Min 6 yrs required

No

Job Title: Financial Services Tax - Real Estate Director

Job Responsibilities:
A career in the Financial Services Tax practice within the Corporate Tax services at the company involves supporting clients in meeting their tax obligations while managing the impact of tax on their business. The role includes advising clients on local and international tax affairs, acting as a strategic consultant for business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. The responsibilities encompass helping organizations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties and providing advice on tax implications of various deals. The team assists Financial Services clients in navigating the complex national and international tax environment, addressing stringent capital requirements, managing operational tax risks, and understanding the tax implications of investing in different jurisdictions. The role also involves aiding clients with their tax structuring and addressing the challenges of a continuously changing tax world, both locally and globally.

As a Director, the role involves working as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Responsibilities at this management level include:
- Supporting the team to disrupt, improve, and evolve ways of working when necessary.
- Arranging and sponsoring appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realize their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
- Identifying gaps in the market and spotting opportunities to create value propositions.
- Looking for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
- Creating an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
- Promoting and encouraging others to value differences when working in diverse teams.
- Driving and taking ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for people and stakeholders.
- Influencing and facilitating the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the company.
- Upholding the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Additional Responsibilities:
The role requires leading as technology-enabled tax advisors who provide value through digitization, automation, and increased efficiencies. This is achieved by equipping professionals to succeed in a world where transactions are faster, more complicated, and require deeper sophistication. The company Tax provides unparalleled technical knowledge and specialization and industry insights, coupled with comprehensive knowledge that brings everything the company offers to solve clients’ needs.

Education and Experience Information:
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor Degree
- Required Fields of Study: Accounting
- Minimum Years of Experience: 6 year(s)
- Certification(s) Required: CPA, Member of the Bar, or other tax, technology, or finance-specific credentials may qualify for this opportunity.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Extensive knowledge of tax compliance methods, strategy consulting for Real Estate Investment Trusts, and Real Estate Partnerships.
- Thorough knowledge of partnership structures and their impact on real estate transactions and corresponding tax liabilities.
- Considerable knowledge of accounting of Unrelated Business Taxable Income.
- Extensive technical skills, including providing full services to real estate owners, developers, and investors, including publicly traded REITS, institutional real estate funds managed by financial institutions, and privately held real estate entities.
- Thorough experience identifying and addressing client needs, developing and sustaining deep client relationships, using networking, negotiation, and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities.
- Experience preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials, and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing, and collection.
- Experience as a team leader: leading teams to generate a vision, establish direction, motivate members, create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, coach staff, and encourage improvement and innovation.
- Proven record of success as a tax technical team leader generating new business, proposal writing and delivery, collaborating across engagements and business units, identifying opportunities to provide additional services, and experience utilizing a CRM system in a professional services firm to network, develop relationships, and sell additional/new services.
- Experience in a professional services environment utilizing automation & digitization, including innovating through new and existing technologies, experimenting with digitization solutions, working with large, complex data sets to build models, leveraging data visualization tools to provide insights to clients, and transforming the business by creating capacity and delivering an enhanced employee and client experience.
- Proven experience with evaluating and negotiating new and existing contracts, leveraging pricing tools to contribute to pricing strategies.

Salary Information:
The salary range for this position is $140,900 - $434,000, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation within the range will depend on the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and applicable employment laws. The company offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more.