Attorney in Melville, NY

In-House

Melville, NY

Attorney in Melville, NY

Non-practicing Attorney

Min 5 yrs required

No

Job Title: Financial Services Tax - Real Estate Senior Manager

Job Responsibilities:
A career in the Financial Services Tax practice within Corporate Tax services at the company involves helping clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. The responsibilities include advising clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. Additional duties involve helping organizations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as providing advice on tax implications of deals. The role requires navigating the frequently changing and complex national and international tax environments related to stringent capital requirements, managing operational tax risks, and tax implications of investing in different jurisdictions. The Senior Manager will assist clients with tax structuring while addressing the challenges of the continuously changing tax world, both locally and globally.

The Senior Manager will work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Key responsibilities for this management level include:
- Encouraging everyone to have a voice and inviting opinions from all, including quieter team members.
- Dealing effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
- Initiating open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
- Moving easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
- Anticipating stakeholder needs and developing and discussing potential solutions even before they are required.
- Contributing technical knowledge in areas of specialism.
- Contributing to an environment where people and technology thrive together.
- Navigating complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
- Initiating and leading open conversations with teams, clients, and stakeholders to build trust.
- Upholding the company's code of ethics and business conduct.

Additional Responsibilities:
The role involves leading as technology-enabled tax advisors who provide value through digitization, automation, and increased efficiencies. The company offers unparalleled technical knowledge and specialization and industry insights, coupled with the One Firm knowledge to solve clients’ needs.

Education and Experience Information:
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor Degree
- Required Fields of Study: Accounting
- Minimum Years of Experience: 5 years

Certification(s) Required:
- CPA, Member of the Bar, or other tax, technology, or finance-specific credentials may qualify for this opportunity.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Intimate knowledge of tax compliance methods, strategy consulting for Real Estate Investment Trusts, and Real Estate Partnerships.
- Considerable knowledge of partnership structures and their impact on real estate transactions and corresponding tax liabilities.
- Considerable knowledge of accounting of Unrelated Business Taxable Income.
- Comprehensive 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.
- Considerable experience identifying and addressing client needs: building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and community involvement; communicating value propositions; managing resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing, and collections; and preparing and/or coordinating complex written and verbal materials.
- Considerable experience as a team leader: supervising teams to create an atmosphere of trust; seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation; and coaching staff, including providing timely meaningful written and verbal feedback.
- Demonstrates success as a tax technical business advisor, including developing new relationships, making introductions to sell new services, and doing so with a "One Firm" service mindset.
- Preferred familiarity with a CRM system.
- Demonstrates knowledge of automation & digitization and leads by example in a professional services environment including but not limited to innovating through new and existing technologies, working with large, complex data sets to build models and leverage data visualization tools to provide insights to clients, and utilizing digitization tools to reduce hours and optimize engagements.
- Advance pricing strategy through the use of pricing tools and influence a shift to alternative fee arrangements.

Salary Information:
The salary range for this position is $119,300 - $328,000, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. For roles based in Maryland, this is the listed salary range for this position. Actual compensation within the range will depend upon 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.