Job Title: Financial Services Tax - Real Estate Director
Job Responsibilities:
A career as a Financial Services Tax - Real Estate Director within the Corporate Tax services at the company involves helping clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact of tax on their business. The role requires 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. The Director will assist organizations in understanding the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties and provide advice on the tax implications of deals. The position involves navigating the frequently changing and 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 Director will help clients with their tax structuring and address challenges in the continuously changing tax landscape, both locally and globally.
The role also includes:
- 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.
- Seeking opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
- Creating an environment where people and technology thrive together.
- Promoting and encouraging others to value differences when working in diverse teams.
- Driving and taking ownership of developing connections that help deliver what is best for 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.
Additional responsibilities include leading as technology-enabled tax advisors, providing value through digitization, automation, and increased efficiencies. The Director will equip professionals to succeed in a world where transactions are faster, more complicated, and require a deeper level of sophistication. The company provides unparalleled technical knowledge, specialization, and industry insights, coupled with the 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 years
Certification(s) Required:
- CPA, Member of the Bar, or other tax, technology, or finance-specific credentials may qualify for this opportunity
Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
- 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 for Unrelated Business Taxable Income.
- Extensive technical skills in 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.
- 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 in preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials, defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing, and collection.
- Experience as a team leader, generating a vision, establishing direction, motivating members, creating an atmosphere of trust, leveraging diverse views, coaching staff, and encouraging 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, and identifying opportunities to provide additional services.
- 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 and digitization, including innovating through new and existing technologies and experimenting with digitization solutions.
- Experience working with large, complex data sets to build models and leveraging data visualization tools to provide insights to clients.
- Proven experience with evaluating and negotiating new and existing contracts, as well as 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.
