Transaction Tax Senior Manager

Position Overview

Weaver is a full-service national accounting, advisory and consulting firm with opportunities for professionals in many different fields.

Weaver is looking for a Transaction Tax Advisory Senior Manager to join our growing firm. The team at Weaver helps private equity, strategic, and founder‑owned clients identify potential tax exposures and understand key tax considerations throughout the entire transaction process, including through significant involvement in evaluating structuring alternatives. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Manager or Senior Manager with an entrepreneurial mindset to step into a leadership role in growing Weaver's Transaction Tax practice.

The Transaction Tax Senior Manager will be connected closely with many different transactions and will work efficiently to apply technical tax knowledge in an easy‑to‑understand manner to assist clients in a variety of M&A transactions. The candidate will manage tax due diligence engagements in leading the M&A tax staff and coordinate with other Weaver teams, such as state and local tax services and international tax teams, to complete diligence reports, evaluate transactions, and complete other transaction‑related engagements.

As Weaver’s clients often look to the firm to assist with structuring transactions, this individual will also have a significant role in leading the research and creative processes around evaluating various alternatives.

The candidate should be a team player who exhibits initiative, accepts responsibility, communicates effectively, and manages multiple concurrent assignments of varying sizes and complexity. As this role is transaction‑focused, the candidate should have a strong work ethic and be a self‑starter, be able to juggle multiple engagements at a time and understand that a busy season in the M&A space is often different from a typical tax busy season.

To be successful in this role, the following qualifications are required:

• Master’s degree in Accounting or related field and/or LLM in taxation
• CPA or CPA candidate or Bar Admission
• 5+ years of federal and/or state tax experience, ideally with a focus on private equity or private equity‑backed clients

Additionally, the following qualifications are preferred:

• Experience in M&A and private equity transactions
• Experience researching and writing technical tax issues
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Proven ability to manage, mentor and develop staff
• Strong relationship management and practice development skills
  
  Ability to attract and service new clients and expand services to existing clients

Weaver goes beyond offering competitive health benefits, such as medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan. We support our employees by offering flexible scheduled time off (STO), a minimum of 56 hours of sick and safe leave, 11 holidays, and 2 scheduled recharge days. We also offer in‑house CPE and learning opportunities through our internal L&D department. Our multi‑faceted internal learning program includes technical improvement, practice development, management/leadership training, and whole‑life growth.

We are proudly an equal opportunity employer.