State and Local Tax Senior Manager - Indirect Tax

Job title: State and Local Tax Senior Manager - Indirect Tax

About the Role Baker Tilly is seeking a State & Local Tax Senior Manager with a consulting focus to join our growing SALT practice. The role combines leadership of complex state and local tax engagements with strategic advisory work for middle market and Fortune 500 clients.

What You'll Do

• Act as trusted advisor to middle market and Fortune 500 clients providing strategic SALT compliance and consulting services to lower tax rates, ensure compliance, and enhance value across taxes.
• Manage multi-disciplinary, multi-state reviews of income, franchise, sales and use, payroll, and other taxes to identify optimal filing options, exemptions, credits and incentives and corporate structures.
• Research state tax issues including nexus determinations, taxability analyses and liability quantification.
• Counsel clients on SALT controversies including research, correspondence, ruling requests, and defending against audits.
• Plan and execute tax projects including due diligence and voluntary disclosure.
• Prepare technical memoranda on SALT issues for individuals, corporations, partnerships and LLCs.
• Maintain active communication with clients and make recommendations for business and process improvements, manage expectations, and enhance value.
• Manage a group of staff and seniors on compliance engagements to ensure developmental skills assist with managing client engagement staffing, billings/collections, and ensure client profitability targets are met.
• Leverage entrepreneurial skills to network and build strong relationships internally and externally with clients and the community.

What We're Looking For

• Ideally has income, franchise and sales/use tax experience; if not, income tax consulting experience is a must.
• Located near one of Baker Tilly offices highly preferred.
• You would like to work directly with CFOs, owners and leaders from middle market and Fortune 500 companies to help solve their most complex state & local tax challenges.
• You want to continue to expand your leadership experiences and hone your consulting skills as a comprehensive SALT professional.
• Your work will be compliance and consulting focused, with emphasis on areas such as sales/income tax nexus and compliance, research projects, ruling requests, process review, reverse audits, and credits & incentives.
• You crave a leadership opportunity to help build a fast growing, entrepreneurial State & Local tax practice who is also down-to-earth and thrives in collaboration.
• You want to be part of a firm that values specialty tax practices and is invested in your success, providing the resources and support for you to grow now, for tomorrow.

Nice to Have

• Experience with voluntary disclosure and remediation projects.