Tax Manager: HNW Athlete & Entertainment Focus

Navigate Search; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Navigate Search partners with an established business management firm to recruit a Tax Manager to support sophisticated high-net-worth athlete and entertainment clients. The role emphasizes high-net-worth individual and partnership taxation, investment entities, and financial statement analysis, with review of K-1s and tax planning alongside attorneys and advisors.

Ideal candidates hold a CPA, have 7+ years of progressive tax experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and can manage

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive tax experience, ideally within public accounting, family office, or business management.
• CPA license required.
• Strong experience with high-net-worth individual and partnership taxation.
• Experience reviewing investment partnership K-1s and understanding complex investment structures.
• Strong financial statement analysis skills, including book-to-tax reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Manage and review complex tax compliance for high-net-worth clients and related investment entities, trusts, and family office structures.
• Review Schedule K-1s from private equity funds, hedge funds, real estate partnerships, and other investment entities.
• Analyze partnership allocations, capital accounts, basis, distributions, debt allocations, and investment-related tax matters.
• Review investment activity, including capital gains and losses, carried interest, passive activities, and other complex transactions.
• Analyze financial statements, trial balances, and general ledgers to identify tax adjustments and reconcile book income to taxable income.
• Review partnership agreements, operating agreements, and other financial and legal documents to determine tax implications.
• Collaborate with investment advisors, attorneys, and other financial professionals on tax planning and compliance matters.
• Provide technical guidance and review work prepared by junior tax professionals.
• Assist with tax notices, audits, examinations, and special projects as needed.

Skills

High-net-worth tax

Partnership tax

Financial statement analysis

K-1 review

Investment entities

Multistate tax

Communication

Independent work

Education

CPA license

Job description

Navigate Search partners with an established business management firm to recruit a Tax Manager to support sophisticated high-net-worth athlete and entertainment clients. The role emphasizes high-net-worth individual and partnership taxation, investment entities, and financial statement analysis, with review of K-1s and tax planning alongside attorneys and advisors.

Ideal candidates hold a CPA, have 7+ years of progressive tax experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and can manage