Senior Manager - SALT Sales and Use Tax

$137,700 - $276,700/Yr

RSM - Houston, TX

Full-time - Senior

Houston, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Manager, Sales and Use Tax at RSM is responsible for providing expert advisory and planning services in sales and use tax to multi-state companies. This role emphasizes technical expertise, people management, and client service, focusing on business development and mentoring within the team. The position requires a deep understanding of state and local tax laws and involves managing complex tax consulting projects while fostering client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent sales and use tax advisory and planning services to multi-state companies - approximately 60% of your time
• Continue business development of State and Local tax practice by generating new revenue on existing client portfolio, cross selling, and growing new client relationships for the tax practice - approximately 30% of your time
• Serve as a Career Advisor, mentor or coach to one or more employees, which will include providing honest and timely performance feedback - approximately 10% of your time
• Integrate with clients, local and regional RSM SALT teams, the overall RSM tax team, and RSM audit and consulting colleagues
• Manage various sales and use tax consulting projects including technical research memoranda, nexus studies, exposure quantification, voluntary disclosures, audit defense and appeals, and reverse sales tax audits
• Lead and manage the business relationship of complex engagements with a focus on high-value, quality tax advice and seek to expand services to clients.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or closely related field from an accredited college or university
• CPA, CMI, JD or LLM certification
• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience providing sales and use tax consulting services in a public accounting, consulting or law firm
• Thorough knowledge of state and local sales and use tax laws, regulations, policies and procedures
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Nice-to-haves

• Project management and critical thinking skills
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills; ability to prioritize multiple assignments.

Benefits

• Flexible scheduling
• Competitive benefits and compensation package
• Discretionary bonus based on firm and individual performance.