Corporate Tax Partner - Chicago

Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Chicago, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Cherry Bekaert is seeking a Tax Partner to lead and develop the Chicago Tax practice, focusing on tax compliance and tax provision outsourcing for middle-market, private equity backed, and public companies. The firm has been providing superior tax, audit, and advisory solutions for over 75 years and is ranked 1st as the 'Fastest Growing Firms in the U.S. 2024' by Accounting Today. The ideal candidate will have a strong professional network and exceptional business development experience, contributing to the expansion of the practice.

Responsibilities

• Consistently grow the practice through expansion of services to existing clients, cross selling with other advisory practices, and obtaining new clients.
• Execute the Firm and Tax Service Line vision, strategy, and goals for the Chicago tax practice.
• Support other leaders in their execution of the strategic plan.
• Ensure discipline around execution of Service Line business processes and Firm business practices for the Chicago tax practice.
• Manage the utilization and productivity of professionals in the practice to achieve operational and financial targets.
• Utilize leadership skills to provide coaching, mentoring, and training in the development of partners and professionals within the practice.
• Drive consistency, collaboration, and communication among Service Line, Market Leaders, Shared Service Leaders, Advisory and Industry Leaders.
• Develop the Chicago tax annual budget and drive results against budget and key performance indicators throughout the year.

Requirements

• Must have an active CPA license.
• Experience in business taxation with a large local, regional, or national public accounting firm.
• Focus on providing federal (ASC 740), multi-state, international tax-related compliance and consulting services to large middle market clients.
• Demonstrated experience in driving growth and building an office, practice, industry group, service line or similar.
• Ability to drive success through the influencing of Partners and staff.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with a variety of middle market commercial industries including Industrials & Consumer Goods, Private Equity, or similar.
• Prior International or M&A tax related experience.

Benefits

• Entrepreneurial environment focused on professional development, career advancement, and performance and rewards opportunities.
• Supportive partnership group with a 'one firm' mentality.
• Big firm resources and bench strength; small firm flexibility.
• Defined metrics and targets that eliminate ambiguity.
• Flexible work arrangements with generous PTO, including a firmwide week off for the 4th of July.