Tax Senior Manager, Private Client Services

Cohen & Co; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cohen & Co seeks a Senior Manager for its Family Office tax advisory & compliance practice in the United States. The role focuses on delivering sophisticated tax planning, compliance across trusts, estates, and multi-entity structures, and serving as a trusted advisor to affluent families and closely held businesses.

The position emphasizes leadership, mentorship, and collaboration with attorneys, investment advisors, and other external professionals to provide coordinated solutions and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field required.
• Active CPA license, EA, or JD with bar license.
• 8+ years of progressive public accounting tax experience with high-net-worth clients.
• Experience leading complex tax compliance & advisory engagements.
• Proven ability to manage client relationships and high-touch service.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex individual, trust, estate, partnership, and entity returns.
• Advise on tax-efficient wealth preservation and planning.
• Coordinate cross-area tax planning across family structures and entities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor team members.
• Review research and planning analyses for high-quality deliverables.
• Develop and manage client relationships with family office clients.

Skills

Client relationship mgmt

Technical leadership

Communication

Analytical skills

Mentoring

Multi-entity taxation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

Tax software

Research tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

What You'll Do

Are you an experienced tax professional with a passion for delivering exceptional service to high-net-worth families and family office clients? As a Senior Manager on our Family Office team, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to successful individuals, multi-generational families, family offices, and closely held businesses with complex tax, financial, and wealth planning needs.

Are you an experienced tax professional with a passion for delivering exceptional service to high-net-worth families and family office clients? As a Senior Manager on our Family Office team, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to successful individuals, multi-generational families, family offices, and closely held businesses with complex tax, financial, and wealth planning needs.

In this role, you'll lead sophisticated tax compliance and advisory engagements, oversee complex family structures, and partner closely with clients and their advisors to help achieve long-term financial and legacy goals. You'll provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and help deliver the high-touch service experience that defines our Family Office practice.

Family Office Tax Advisory & Compliance

• Lead and review complex individual, trust, estate, partnership, and entity tax returns, ensuring accuracy and consistency across interconnected family structures.
• Advise clients on tax-efficient wealth preservation, estate and succession planning, charitable giving strategies, family governance matters, and closely held business interests.
• Coordinate tax planning across individuals, trusts, partnerships, LLCs, private investments, and family-owned operating entities.
• Serve as a technical resource on complex tax issues impacting high-net-worth families, family offices, estates, trusts, and multi-entity structures.
• Identify proactive planning opportunities related to income taxation, liquidity events, investment activities, wealth transfer, and legacy planning.
• Monitor tax law and regulatory developments and advise clients on the implications to their personal, business, and family office affairs.
• Review complex research and planning analyses to ensure high-quality client deliverables and strategic recommendations.

Client Relationship Management

• Serve as a primary relationship leader and trusted advisor for family office clients and high-net-worth families.
• Develop a deep understanding of clients' financial objectives, family dynamics, and long-term planning priorities.
• Collaborate with attorneys, investment advisors, bankers, insurance professionals, and other external advisors to provide coordinated solutions.
• Deliver proactive guidance and exceptional service that strengthens client relationships and enhances the overall family office experience.
• Identify opportunities to expand service offerings and support the continued growth of the Family Office practice.

Team Leadership & Practice Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop Managers, Seniors, and Staff through coaching, technical guidance, and performance feedback.
• Foster a collaborative environment focused on client service excellence, technical expertise, and professional development.
• Review work product across engagement teams to ensure quality, consistency, and efficiency.
• Partner with leadership on staffing, workflow management, process improvement, and team development initiatives.
• Support training, knowledge sharing, recruiting, and practice-building efforts across the Family Office team.

Required

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field
• Active CPA license, EA, or JD with active bar license
• 8+ years of progressive public accounting tax experience, including significant experience serving high-net-worth individuals, family offices, trusts, estates, and closely held businesses
• Demonstrated experience managing complex tax compliance and consulting engagements across multiple entity types
• Proven ability to lead client relationships and serve as a trusted advisor to affluent families and business owners
• Strong knowledge of individual, trust, estate, partnership, and family office taxation
• Excellent communication, relationship management, analytical, and organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering a high-touch client experience
• Proficiency with tax software, research tools, and Microsoft Office

Preferred

• Exposure to alternative investments, multi-state planning, and foreign reporting
• Experience with business development
• Background in a family office or multi-generational wealth planning environment

Who We Are

Sure, we like numbers. (But we'll never treat you like one.)
At Cohen & Co Our Foundational Principles Offer Insight Into How We Achieve An Inclusive, Growth-oriented Culture That Fuels The Success Of Our Firm, Our Clients And Our People. In Particular, We Honor Our Foundational Principle Of "great People First" By

• Championing the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion by embracing the unique stories, backgrounds, perspectives and ideas that come from our people; and
• Offering a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewardspackage, which allows each employee to use the benefits that best suits their needs. Our offerings go beyond standard options, including time off outside of your standard PTO to give back to the community, annual discretionary merit increases and bonuses, talent development resources to tap into growth opportunities, and so much more!

Learn More About Us!

• Discover our Passion, Purpose & Expertise
• Learn more about our Firm's culture

Estimated Base Range

• Base compensation offered to candidates are determined based on factors such as candidate's relevant skillset, experience licensure, certifications, as well as job responsibilities, geography, market considerations, and organizational needs. At Cohen & Co, we don't stop at setting ourselves apart by offering competitive base compensation. As part of our 'great people first' foundational principle, our firm offers a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that allows each employee to design a package that best suits their needs and goes beyond standard options, including time off outside of your standard PTO to recharge and give back to the community, annual discretionary merit increases and bonuses, talent development resources to tap into growth opportunities.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of thought and background to build an inclusive and energized culture and better meet the needs of our clients.