Attorney in New York City, NY

In-House

New York City, NY

Attorney in New York City, 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 provides the opportunity to assist clients in meeting their tax obligations while managing the impact of tax on their business. As a Director, the primary responsibilities include advising clients on local and overseas tax affairs, acting as a strategic consultant in business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. The role involves helping organizations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties and providing advice on the tax implications of deals. The Director will aid Financial Services clients in navigating the frequently changing and complex national and international tax environment, particularly focusing on stringent capital requirements, management of operational tax risks, and tax implications of investing in different jurisdictions. The Director will assist clients with tax structuring and address challenges in the evolving tax world both locally and globally.

Additional responsibilities 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 difference when working in diverse teams.
- Driving and taking ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
- Influencing and facilitating the creation of long-term relationships that add value to the company.
- Upholding the company's code of ethics and business conduct.

The Director also leads as a technology-enabled tax advisor, providing value through digitization, automation, and increased efficiencies. The role involves equipping professionals to succeed in a world where transactions are faster, more complicated, and require a deeper level of sophistication. The Director is expected to demonstrate a proven record of success as a tax technical team leader, generating new business, writing and delivering proposals, and collaborating across engagements and business units. The role involves 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.

Education and Experience Information:
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor Degree
- Required Fields of Study: Accounting
- Minimum Years of Experience: 6 years
- 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 (REITs), 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 in 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.
- Thorough experience as a team leader, leading teams to generate a vision, establish direction, and motivate members, creating an atmosphere of trust, leveraging diverse views, coaching staff, and encouraging improvement and innovation.

The Director should demonstrate experience in a professional services environment utilizing automation and digitization, including:
- Innovating through new and existing technologies and experimenting with digitization solutions.
- Working with large, complex data sets to build models and leveraging data visualization tools to provide insights to clients.
- Transforming the business by creating capacity and delivering an enhanced employee and client experience.
- Evaluating and negotiating new and existing contracts and leveraging pricing tools to contribute to pricing strategies.

Salary Information:
The salary range for the position of Financial Services Tax - Real Estate Director is $140,900 - $434,000, with eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation within the range will depend on the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, and location, as well as 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.