Senior Manager, Accounting Methods

Job Description

The STS Accounting Methods group helps companies optimize their federal tax accounting methods, including IRC 263(A) capitalization, depreciation accounting methods, expense acceleration and revenue deferral. STS Accounting Methods is part of BDO’s Specialized Tax Services (STS) business, which is composed of various tax consulting practices designed to help companies comply with specific areas of federal, state, and international tax law.

As an STS Tax Senior Manager, Accounting Methods, you will help achieve BDO’s core purpose—Helping People Thrive Every Day—by helping both public and private companies identify federal tax benefits and correct federal tax exposures. Clients include leaders in technology, manufacturing, healthcare, architecture/engineering services, and consumer products. You will innovate and collaborate with BDO colleagues and clients’ leaders in tax, accounting, and finance, as well as operations, software, manufacturing, and supply chain departments.

The role offers opportunities to develop technical, interpersonal, communication, project management, practice management, and business development skills.

• Identifies situations requiring research and conducts appropriate investigation.
• Confirms accuracy of facts and sources where appropriate.
• Prepares studies of tax implications and outlines alternative courses of action to clients.
• Composes effective research memos in support of projects/transactions.
• Develops effective presentations for marketing and sales opportunities.

• Ensures clients comply with applicable authorities.
• Identifies options for minimizing client tax and reporting burdens.
• Identifies “gray areas” and communicates related risks to partners.
• Completes appropriate work papers and tax returns forms.
• Ensures firm risk management and tax quality control standards and protocols are met.
• Communicates with clients and appropriate Core Tax Services, Assurance, and Consulting personnel regarding any issues.

• Develops, recommends, and implements solutions to provide clients maximum tax benefits.
• Stays informed of new legal and factual developments affecting clients’ tax accounting methods positions and identifies and communicates with partners about effective approaches.
• Identifies and assists in maximizing all potential tax accounting methods benefits.
• Identifies process improvements regarding the processes of identifying, documenting, and supporting STS Accounting Methods on exam and at appeals.

• Represents clients before tax authorities.
• Responds effectively to inquiries from federal and state tax authorities regarding tax accounting methods issues and questions.

• Develops an in-depth understanding of the technical and practical issues and opportunities regarding tax accounting methods.
• Identifies client opportunities and issues related to tax specializations other than accounting methods.

• Develops new or improved ideas and strategies to advance the position of clients, the firm, or firm personnel.
• Suggests marketing approaches for new client acquisition.

• Exhibits thought leadership in a specialized area within Tax Accounting Methods.
• Recognized as industry group go-to person in Tax Accounting Methods.
• Works with Specialized Tax Services and Tax Accounting Methods Partners, Local Office Managing Partner and local and regional Business Development Managers to develop and execute an effective marketing plan.
• Builds effective go-to-market strategies.
• Identifies opportunities and prepares and delivers presentations to pitch service capabilities to clients and potential clients.
• Prepares proposals, statement of work and engagement letters.
• Researches a variety of tax topics related to transfer pricing.
• Works on teams that summarize and report on recent transfer pricing developments.
• Drafts tax alerts that are used to communicate recent developments to an external audience.
• Creates slides for use in presentations to internal and external audiences.
• Prepares training materials and presents on topics of interest to internal audiences.
• Works on…