Tax Manager, State Income and Franchise - Multistate

This role is for a Tax Manager specializing in State Income and Franchise tax within Deloitte's Multistate Tax Services group. The position involves providing tax consulting and compliance services to a diverse client base, managing engagement teams, and advising on complex state tax issues such as planning, accounting for income taxes, restructuring, audit defense, and due diligence. Key responsibilities include maintaining client relationships, overseeing compliance and consulting projects, researching tax implications, managing workflow and billing, and developing engagement teams. The role requires 5+ years of experience in state income and franchise tax and a Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field. An advanced degree and previous Big 4 experience are preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Maintaining and developing strong client relationships on various tax consulting/compliance engagements.
  2. Advising clients on a variety of issues including multistate tax planning, accounting for income taxes, restructuring, audit defense, and due diligence.
  3. Overseeing complex state tax compliance and consulting projects requiring tax analysis for a variety of entities and their affiliates.
  4. Researching and analyzing a wide range of tax issues and tax implications including apportionment methodology, unitary filings, and nexus considerations.
  5. Managing engagement workflow, engagement team resources, and engagement billing.

Skills

Required

  • state income and franchise tax experience
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field
  • active accreditations

Nice to have

  • Advanced degree such as Masters of Tax, JD, and/or LLM
  • Previous Big 4 or large CPA firm experience
  • Excellent research and writing skills
  • Excellent presentation and communications skills
  • Solid understanding and experience with state tax compliance, tax planning, tax analysis, and tax research
  • Strong management experience

What the JD emphasized

  • state income and franchise tax
  • multistate tax planning
  • state tax compliance
  • tax consulting
  • tax research