Cherry Bekaert, the nation’s 20th largest public accounting firm, seeks a Tax Senior Manager for its National Tax Office (NTO) to provide technical tax services related to compensation and benefits and employment taxes. This highly visible position offers excellent training, development, feedback, and professional growth. We’re looking for an extremely bright and motivated tax professional with a CPA and/or JD. Government experience is a plus.

What Does Your Day Look Like?

As a member of the firm’s NTO and reporting directly to the Lead of the C&B function within NTO, you will work directly with Cherry Bekaert professionals and their clients to provide federal tax expertise related to compensation and benefits and employment taxes. As a rapidly growing public accounting firm servicing the middle market, you will help to develop the vision, strategies, and action plans to grow Cherry Bekaert’s tax practice as well as ensure the profitability of such practice. You have the opportunity to help build-out the technical resource for / thought leadership for Cherry Bekaert’s C&B Practice Group. This includes the opportunity to deal directly with Cherry Bekaert professionals and their clients, managing internal resources to complete client projects, collaborate with NTO leaders across other disciplines, drive the adoption of best practices in answering federal tax questions and recommending courses of actions to clients and our professionals, to support the development of the firm’s technical positions across the C&B space, as well as support the firm in its internal growth.

Note that Cherry Bekaert’s client offerings include Human Resources Consulting, a group which provides expertise in managing:

• Total rewards, including executive compensation, fringe benefits and retirement plans,

• HR operations, including compliance and strategy, and,

• Organizational Development and employee engagement.

You will be part of the technical tax and ERISA resource for this team.

Specifically, primary responsibilities are focused in the following areas:

• Providing tax consulting and advisory services to Cherry Bekaert professionals and their clients.

• Work closely with fellow NTO specialists to ensure comprehensive technical soundness on tax consulting and advisory advice.

• Working with HR Consulting to ensure federal tax and ERISA compliance

• Participating in national C&B professional groups.

• Researching and writing technical tax memoranda.

• Developing thought leadership and other external marketing materials

• Developing and delivering internal staff training for tax issues.

• Assisting with internal and external webinars and presentations.

• Assisting with firm-wide quality control procedures.

What Do You Need for this Role?

We’re looking for a high energy, entrepreneurial, proactive individual to make significant contributions to firm leadership, risk management, and client service. Strong communication and organizational skills are needed as is a passion for working with our professionals and their clients. The following are also needed:

• CPA and/or JD.

• At least 6 years working with federal tax issues related to compensation and benefits and employment tax issues.

• An understanding of ERISA

• Excellent research, analytical, and writing skills.

• Engaging and effective presentation style.

• Strong interpersonal skills.

What you can expect from us:

• Our shared values that foster inclusion and belonging including uncompromising integrity, collaboration, trust, and mutual respect

• The opportunity to innovate and do work that motivates and engages you

• A collaborative environment focused on enabling you to further your career growth and continuous professional development

• Competitive compensation and a total rewards package that focuses on all aspects of your wellbeing

• Flexibility to do impactful work and the time to enjoy your life outside of work

• Opportunities to connect and learn from professionals from different backgrounds and with different cultures

Benefits Information:

Cherry Bekaert cares about our people. We offer competitive compensation packages based on performance that recognize the value our people bring to our clients and our Firm. The salary range for this position is included below. Individual salaries within this range are determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, education, knowledge, skills, and geographic location. In addition, we offer a comprehensive, high-quality benefits program which includes annual bonus, medical, dental, and vision care; disability and life insurance; generous Paid Time Off; retirement plans; Paid Care Leave; and other programs that are dedicated to enhancing your personal and work life and providing you and your family with a measure of financial protection.

Pay Range:

About Cherry Bekaert

Cherry Bekaert, ranked among the largest assurance, tax and advisory firms in the U.S., serves clients across industries in all 50 U.S. states and internationally. For more details, visit https://www.cbh.com/disclosure/ 

Cherry Bekaert provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. https://careers.cbh.com/legal-disclosures/ contains further information regarding the firm's compliance with federal, state and local recruitment and hiring laws. 

This role is expected to accept applications for at least five calendar days and may continue to be posted until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.   

Candidates must demonstrate eligibility to work in the United States. Cherry Bekaert will not provide work sponsorship for this position. 

Cherry Bekaert LLP and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC are members of Allinial Global, an accountancy and business advisory global association. Visit us at  https://careers.cbh.com/ and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.  

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