Senior Tax Manager, Tax & Practice Operations

Location: Hybrid; must reside in Southern California within reasonable traveling distance of West Los Angeles and West Hollywood, with in-person meetings when required.

Company

hirify.global operates an established accounting practice.

What you will do

• Lead complex tax engagements and provide senior-level technical review.
• Manage key client relationships and deliver strong client service.
• Manage engagements from planning through completion while owning quality, deadlines, and profitability.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop professional staff.
• Support the continued development of the accounting practice.

Requirements

• Active CPA license.
• 8–10 years of recent public accounting experience.
• Extensive federal and California tax experience, including individual and business taxation.
• Significant experience preparing and reviewing Forms 1040, 1065, 1120, and 1120S.
• Experience reviewing complex returns prepared by other professionals and independently researching and resolving complex tax matters.
• Experience managing tax engagements from planning through completion.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, and developing professional staff.
• Strong client-facing, relationship-management, written communication, verbal communication, analytical, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing deadlines, work independently, and remain accountable in a primarily remote environment.
• Must reside in Southern California within reasonable traveling distance of West Los Angeles and West Hollywood and be willing to attend in-person meetings when required.

Nice to have

• Experience with California-based public accounting firms.
• Experience with high-net-worth individuals and closely held or family-owned businesses.
• Experience with partnerships, S corporations, trust and estate taxation, and multistate taxation.
• Experience with tax planning and projections, IRS and California tax notices.
• Experience with engagement budgeting, billing, realization, and collections.
• Practice management, process improvement, distributed or remote professional teams, tax technology, and workflow automation experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid work arrangement.
• Primarily remote work with required in-person meetings when applicable.