In-House
Columbia, SC
Attorney in Columbia, SC
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 Corporate Tax services offers the opportunity to assist clients in meeting their tax obligations while managing the impact of taxes on their business. The role involves advising clients on local and overseas tax affairs, acting as a strategic consultant for business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. The position includes helping organizations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties and providing advice on the tax implications of deals. The responsibilities extend to assisting Financial Services clients in 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 role also involves supporting clients with their tax structuring while addressing the challenges of the continuously changing tax world both locally and globally.
As a Director, the role includes working as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. The responsibilities for 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 difference 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 company's code of ethics and business conduct.
Additional Responsibilities:
The role is about leading the way 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 a deeper level of sophistication. The role involves working with the company's Tax practice, which provides unparalleled technical knowledge and specialization, industry insights, and the combined knowledge of the company 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 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 for 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.
The role requires 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, preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials, and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing, and collection. Experience as a team leader is essential, including leading teams to generate a vision, establish direction and motivate members, create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, coach staff, and encourage improvement and innovation.
The role requires a 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 in utilizing a CRM system in a professional services firm to network, develop relationships, and sell additional/new services is essential.
Demonstrated 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.
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, with eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus. For roles based in Maryland, this is the listed salary range for the position. 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.
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