Senior Tax Manager, Sikich

• 10+ years of experience in Business Tax, Accounting, and/or Business Operations
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• Experience in a Professional Services industry/environment
• Strong research and analytical skills and attention to detail with the ability to develop and maintain complex tax models and use various tax software
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, familiar with operating in cloud-based software throughout the day
• Strong verbal and written skills, proven experience communicating effectively with a business’s executive leadership team
• Ability to work cross-functionally, delegate tasks, and tightly manage long-range projects
• Ability to operate successfully in a dynamic, deadline-driven environment
• Demonstrated ability to work in a continuous-improvement environment
• Servant Leader – You are hyper focused on engaging employees, fostering their development, and building a positive culture
• Solutions Focused – You see opportunities in every business problem and can develop, articulate, and implement solutions
• Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units
• Instills Trust - You do what you say, and you follow through on commitments, you act with integrity, you are consistent and are perceived as credible
• Impact & Influence Thinking – You gain support for ideas, proposals, and solutions, and get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives/objectives

Desirable

• The Senior Manager, Tax at Sikich LLP plays a crucial role in overseeing the firm’s tax strategies and compliance, ensuring timely and accurate tax filings, and leading initiatives to optimize tax-related processes in a dynamic, global professional services environment
• Oversee the firm’s internal Income Tax strategy, processes, and complete all recurring tax filing obligations
• Ensure state and federal income taxes and quarterly estimates are prepared and filed in a timely and accurate manner
• Monitor for changes in federal, state, or local tax legislation and ensure updates to policies & procedures,
• Partner with internal Accounting team to ensure accurate monthly and quarterly tax accruals and review reconciliations, as necessary
• Serve as the firm’s internal Tax strategist, guiding improvements in reporting and operational design. Research and offer clear solutions regarding often complex tax scenarios
• Effectively manage & resolve any audits which may arise with tax authorities
• Provide technical tax and project management support on US and global projects; i.e. transfer pricing
• Oversee the firm’s Sales Tax processes, ensuring sales taxes are included on all necessary client invoices, and filed in a timely and accurate manner
• Lead initiatives to simplify and automate Sikich’s sales tax processes, as well as minimizing risk in state sales tax audits. This includes spearheading Sikich’s project to design and roll out a 3rd party sales tax integration with the Oracle ERP system over the coming year
• Ad-hoc projects, initiatives, and analysis as needed
• This role will report directly into Sikich’s Global Controller