United States National Tax Services - Merger & Acquisition - Senior Manager at CFA Institute

A career within United States National Tax services will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients gain valuable insight into emerging tax issues and trends, as well helping them implement successful tax strategies in response to legislative, federal, and judicial tax developments that will impact their business. Our Mergers and Acquisitions team helps our clients assess tax obligations related to acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, joint ventures, and initial public offerings. You'll focus on managing acquisition and merger risk, structuring acquisitions to optimise net cash flows, carrying out pre-acquisition or pre-sale due diligence, and ensuring that tax compliance requirements are met throughout the deal.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

1. Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
2. Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
3. Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
4. Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
5. Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
6. Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
7. Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
8. Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
9. Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
10. Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor Degree

Additional Educational Requirements: A Juris Doctorate (JD), Master of Laws (LLM), or Master's degree in Accounting or Taxation field of study will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor Degree in Accounting.

Minimum Years of Experience: 5 year(s)

Certification(s) Required: CPA, Member of the Bar or other tax, technology, or finance-specific credentials may qualify for this opportunity

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree Preferred: Juris Doctorate

Preferred Knowledge/Skills: Demonstrates intimate-level knowledge success with managing the identification and addressing of client needs in the following areas: - Mergers and acquisition practices, including corporate mergers and acquisitions, private equity, post deal integration, bankruptcy and corporate insolvency; and, - Tax consulting and planning, transaction structuring for tax issues, restructuring, due diligence, strategy formulation and financial modeling.

Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in the following areas: - Utilizing application and interpretation of U.S. federal income tax law as it relates to Subchapter C corporations, Subchapter S corporations, partnerships, consolidated groups, corporate bankruptcies and insolvencies, tax efficient structuring and use of debt, the reorganization provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, technical writing and reviewing of opinion letters and memoranda, as well as tax due diligence exercises; - Identifying and addressing client needs, building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and community involvement; communicating value propositions; managing resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collections; and preparing and/or coordinating complex written and verbal materials; and, - Acting as a team leader, supervising teams to create an atmosphere of trust; seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation; and coaching staff including providing timely meaningful written and verbal feedback.

Demonstrates success as tax technical business advisor, including developing new relationships, making introductions to sell new services and doing so with a "One Firm" service mindset. Preferred familiarity with a CRM system.

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