Tax Director - Real Estate

EisnerAmper; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

EisnerAmper is seeking a Tax Director to join our Real Estate Tax practice, focusing on privately held real estate owners, developers, operators, family offices, and closely held businesses. This role partners with entrepreneurs to plan, structure, and execute tax strategies.

Ideal candidates bring extensive experience in partnership taxation, entity structuring, and complex compliance, with CPA or IRS Enrolled Agent certification and public accounting background.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or equivalent field required.
• 10+ years of progressive tax experience in tax compliance and consulting.
• 8+ years of tax compliance, complex returns expertise.
• Recent Public Accounting experience.
• CPA or IRS Enrolled Agent Certification required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted tax advisor to privately held real estate owners, developers, operators, family offices, and closely held real estate businesses.
• Lead complex tax engagements involving partnership taxation, entity structuring, acquisitions, dispositions, refinancing transactions, and tax planning strategies.
• Partner with owners and executives to identify tax savings opportunities and provide strategic guidance.
• Review and oversee tax compliance and consulting engagements to ensure technical excellence and timely delivery.
• Mentor, develop, and manage tax professionals within Real Estate Tax practice.
• Collaborate with Partners on business development, proposals, and client-relations expansion.
• Build and maintain relationships with attorneys, lenders, wealth advisors, and other professionals in real estate market.
• Identify opportunities to provide additional advisory and tax planning services to existing clients.
• Serve as a technical resource for engagement teams on partnership taxation and real estate-related tax matters.
• Stay current on developments impacting real estate owners, operators, developers, and family-owned real estate businesses.

Skills

Tax planning

Partnership taxation

Entity structuring

Acquisitions & dispositions

Tax strategy advising

Mentoring tax professionals

Business development

Client relationship management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or equivalent field

Tools

GoSystems

CCH Axcess

Job description

Job Description

At EisnerAmper, we look for individuals who welcome new ideas, encourage innovation, and are eager to make an impact. Whether you’re starting out in your career or taking your next step as a seasoned professional, the EisnerAmper experience is one-of-a-kind. You can design a career you’ll love from top to bottom – we give you the tools you need to succeed and the autonomy to reach your goals.

Job Description

At EisnerAmper, we look for individuals who welcome new ideas, encourage innovation, and are eager to make an impact. Whether you’re starting out in your career or taking your next step as a seasoned professional, the EisnerAmper experience is one-of-a-kind. You can design a career you’ll love from top to bottom – we give you the tools you need to succeed and the autonomy to reach your goals.

EisnerAmper is seeking a Tax Director to join our Real Estate Tax practice with a primary focus on privately held real estate owners, developers, operators, family offices, and closely held real estate businesses. This role is designed for a trusted advisor who enjoys partnering directly with entrepreneurs and ownership groups on tax planning, structuring, transactions, and long-term business strategy. Experience serving owner-operated real estate companies is strongly preferred over backgrounds primarily focused on public REITs, institutional real estate private equity funds, or investment management structures.

What it Means to Work for EisnerAmper:

• You will get to be part of one of the largest and fastest growing accounting and advisory firms in the industry
• You will have the flexibility to manage your days in support of our commitment to work/life balance
• You will join a culture that has received multiple top “Places to Work” awards
• We believe that great work is accomplished when cultures, ideas and experiences come together to create innovative solutions
• We understand that embracing our differences is what unites us as a team and strengthens our foundation
• Showing up authentically is how we, both as professionals and a Firm, find inspiration to do our best work

What Work You Will be Responsible For:

• Serve as a trusted tax advisor to privately held real estate owners, developers, operators, family offices, and closely held real estate businesses.
• Lead complex tax engagements involving partnership taxation, entity structuring, acquisitions, dispositions, refinancing transactions, and tax planning strategies.
• Partner directly with business owners and executive leadership teams to identify tax savings opportunities and provide strategic guidance.
• Review and oversee tax compliance and consulting engagements to ensure technical excellence and timely delivery.
• Mentor, develop, and manage tax professionals within the Real Estate Tax practice.
• Collaborate with Partners on business development initiatives, proposal presentations, and expansion of existing client relationships.
• Build and maintain relationships with attorneys, lenders, wealth advisors, and other professionals serving the closely held real estate market.
• Identify opportunities to provide additional advisory and tax planning services to existing clients.
• Serve as a technical resource for engagement teams on partnership taxation and real estate-related tax matters.
• Stay current on developments impacting real estate owners, operators, developers, and family-owned real estate businesses.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or equivalent field is required
• 10+ years of progressive tax experience providing tax compliance and consulting services
• 8+ years of tax compliance, specialization in complex technical individual and business returns
• Recent Public Accounting experience
• CPA or IRS Enrolled Agent Certification required

Preferred/Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Taxation or relevant field
• Experience using GoSystems or CCH Axcess tax software
• Experience acquiring new clients and growing a book of business

EisnerAmper is proud to be a merit-based employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of veteran or disability status or any protected characteristics under federal, state, or local law.

About Our Tax Team:

As the largest service line within the firm, EisnerAmper’s Tax Group does not only provide trusted and innovative tax solutions to its clients, but it creates new opportunities for employees to grow, both personally and professionally. With a range of specialties based on location and industry, employees have the flexibility to focus on the work they want to do and the autonomy to shape their careers in a fulfilling way.

A hybrid between a general tax practice and a hyper-specialized firm, our culture is based on collaboration, innovation, and transparency. For us, success is defined by working together, sometimes across specialties, to provide the best tax solutions to meet our clients’ unique needs.

Tax regulations and procedures are always changing, and so are we. All EisnerAmper tax employees are empowered to challenge the status quo by thinking outside the box and bringing new ideas to the table. Because when we can identify creative ways to reduce filing turnarounds or streamline compliance work, we're able spend more time conducting impactful business advisory services for our clients.

About EisnerAmper:

EisnerAmper is one of the largest accounting, tax, and business advisory firms, with approximately 450 partners and 4,500 employees across the world. We combine responsiveness with a long-range perspective; to help clients meet the pressing issues they face today and position them for success tomorrow.

Our clients are enterprises as diverse as sophisticated financial institutions and start-ups, global public firms, and middle-market companies, as well as high net worth individuals, family offices, not-for-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries. We are also engaged by the attorneys, financial professionals, bankers, and investors who serve these clients.

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Preferred Location:

New York