SALT Sales & Use Tax Senior Manager

Accountabilities

• • Lead complex SALT engagements: Manage multistate sales and use tax engagements from planning through delivery, ensuring accurate, timely, high-quality work while providing strategic oversight and managing project economics and profitability.
  • Advise clients on technical matters: Serve as a senior technical resource on sales and use tax issues, conduct complex research, develop tax strategies, and provide practical recommendations to minimize clients' state and local tax exposure.
  • Manage audits and controversies: Lead state and local tax audits, advocate for client positions with government authorities, manage communications and expectations, and maintain productive relationships with tax officials.
  • Drive practice development: Lead SALT initiatives, improve processes and service offerings, and identify opportunities to expand capabilities and enhance the client experience.
  • Strengthen client relationships: Develop a deep understanding of client businesses and industries, collaborate across service lines to identify integrated solutions, and contribute to expanding existing relationships and generating new opportunities.
  • Support business growth: Work with senior leadership to identify business development opportunities, develop referral networks, participate in industry and community activities, and contribute to the long-term growth strategy of the practice.
  • Develop talent: Mentor and coach managers, seniors, and staff, provide meaningful feedback and delegation, and create opportunities for professionals to build technical expertise and leadership capabilities.
  • Promote innovation: Evaluate emerging technologies, AI tools, automation, and workflow improvements that can increase quality, efficiency, scalability, and consistency across the practice.
  • Represent the practice externally: Contribute to professional organizations, publications, conferences, and speaking engagements on relevant technical and industry topics.
  • Maintain technical excellence: Monitor nationwide SALT developments and communicate relevant changes internally while continuously strengthening technical knowledge and professional capabilities.

  Requirements

  • Experience: At least 10 years of progressively complex State and Local Tax experience, with demonstrated expertise in sales and use tax.
  • Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in accounting, taxation, or a related discipline; an advanced degree such as a law degree may also be relevant.
  • Professional credentials: CPA or CMI certification is preferred.
  • Technical expertise: Strong proficiency in complex SALT research, tax planning, technical analysis, opinion papers, protest documents, and other technical communications.
  • Client advisory skills: Demonstrated ability to understand client businesses and industries, develop practical tax strategies, and communicate complex issues clearly to clients and stakeholders.
  • Audit and controversy experience: Experience managing state and local tax audits and advocating client positions in potentially adversarial settings while maintaining constructive government relationships.
  • Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop high-performing teams, with strong interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and a collaborative leadership style.
  • Business development: Ability to build and maintain client, professional, government, and referral relationships and contribute to new business development.
  • Project management: Strong ability to manage multiple clients, assignments, teams, deadlines, budgets, and competing priorities while maintaining high-quality deliverables.
  • Technology: Proficiency with tax compliance and legal research software, Microsoft Office, and technology-enabled tax service delivery, including AI and automation tools.
  • Leadership mindset: Strong professional judgment, accountability, intellectual curiosity, ownership mentality, entrepreneurial thinking, and comfort operating in an evolving, growth-focused environment.
  • Professional development: Commitment to completing at least 40 hours of continuing professional education annually to maintain and expand technical and business skills.

  Benefits

  • Fully remote: Remote position based in the United States, offering flexibility in how you manage your work.
  • Career growth: Opportunity to take a leadership role in a growing SALT practice and contribute to its long-term strategic direction.
  • Leadership development: Significant opportunity to mentor professionals, build future leaders, and influence practice culture.
  • Ownership culture: Employee-ownership environment designed to encourage collaboration, accountability, and shared success.
  • Professional development: Ongoing learning opportunities, technical development, and required continuing professional education support.
  • Innovation: Opportunity to help shape technology-enabled service delivery through AI, automation, and workflow improvements.
  • Client impact: Work directly with sophisticated clients on complex, high-value multistate tax challenges.
  • Collaborative environment: Cross-functional collaboration with tax professionals and other advisory disciplines.
  • Compensation: The source posting does not specify a salary range or detailed benefits package.