Senior Tax Director, Private Client Advisory

Armanino Advisory LLC; San Ramon (CA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Generous PTO plan and paid sick time

Flexible work arrangements

401K with Profit Sharing

Wellness program

Generous parental leave

11 paid holidays

Job summary

Armanino is a national accounting and consulting firm offering opportunities to grow across tax and advisory services. This role focuses on handling high-net-worth individuals and their pass-through entities, estates and trusts, with senior oversight.

The candidate will lead engagements, mentor staff, develop tax strategies, and stay current with evolving tax laws while delivering practical business solutions to clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Tax, Finance, or related discipline.
• Qualified to practice before the IRS (i.e., JD, CPA, or EA).
• Minimum of 8 years' experience in public accounting in taxation or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 4 years in a managerial role involving clients and team members.
• Advanced understanding of planning and compliance concepts related to high-net-worth individual and fiduciary income tax, gift tax, and estate tax.
• Possess a strong knowledge of accounting theory and federal, state and local tax laws.
• Flexibility to work from home while collaborating in person half the time.

Responsibilities

• Perform technical reviews of tax returns for high-net-worth individuals, primarily their personal income tax returns as well as their closely held businesses (pass through entities), trust, estate, and gift tax returns.
• Provide consultation on business and/or personal transactions (if applicable), and the related tax implications, consequences and treatment.
• Manage larger and complex engagements and workflow of multiple clients and related deliverables to minimize risk and surprises, maximize engagement economics, meet internal and external deadlines and develops less experienced engagement personnel, primarily managers and supervisors.
• Review or conduct high level research of complex or emerging tax issues and prepare memorandums to support conclusions.
• Engage with our internal business development department, builds relationships across the firm internally, identify potential cross-selling opportunities for clients and actively brings the opportunities to clients, collaborating across AMLLP service lines.
• Engage in thought leadership, contributing to technical publications and engaging in speaking opportunities (both internally and externally) Develops our internal professionals by leading formal learning opportunities/trainings or supporting the development of training materials in collaboration with Learning & Development Team and sharing knowledge Train and develop managers responsible for engagement management responsibilities, including analyze billing, managing complex budgets, scheduling and staffing, due date management and client relations.
• Continually build on technical expertise in taxation by attending continuing professional education courses or utilizing other training resource Keep current with tax law changes and provide updates and training to the firm’s tax practice members.

Skills

Flexibility to work from home

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Tax, Finance, or related discipline

Master’s Degree in Accounting or Taxation

Job description

Armanino is a national accounting and consulting firm offering opportunities to grow across tax and advisory services. This role focuses on handling high-net-worth individuals and their pass-through entities, estates and trusts, with senior oversight.

The candidate will lead engagements, mentor staff, develop tax strategies, and stay current with evolving tax laws while delivering practical business solutions to clients.