Washington National Tax - Financial Instruments - Manager

Manager role in Deloitte's Washington National Tax (WNT) Financial Instruments Group, focusing on complex federal income tax issues for clients like multinational corporations and financial institutions. Responsibilities include analyzing tax implications of debt, derivatives, and digital assets, and advising on complex transactions.

What you'd actually do

  1. As a Manager in our Washington National Tax practice, you will work with a team of specialists to analyze federal income tax issues faced by a wide variety of clients (such as multinational corporations, major financial institutions, investment funds and asset managers among others) in a variety of settings (such as debt workouts, mergers and acquisitions, and investment management).
  2. You will assist in advising clients on complex tax issues involving debt, derivatives and digital assets.
  3. For example, on the same day, you may:
  4. Consider whether an instrument issued by a multinational corporation is debt or equity, and if such instrument is debt, how to tax account for interest accruals and whether any interest expense limitation provisions apply;
  5. Evaluate whether a derivative entered into by a hedge fund is properly classified as a notional principal contract and whether the straddle rules may impact the treatment of such activity; and
  6. Assist with determining the tax consequences of a loan of digital assets.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years’ experience in taxation at a law firm, public accounting firm or similar practice environment
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field
  • Active accreditations in taxation

Nice to have

  • An advanced degree such as MS in Taxation, JD and/or LLM
  • Strong analytical abilities
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • complex technical tax issues
  • complex tax issues
  • complex transactions
  • complex challenges