Tax Senior Manager

There's a particular phone call you only get in San Diego. A client has a business on both sides of the border, an accountant in Tijuana who has done it one way for 20 years, and a question you can't answer by looking it up.

That's the senior manager seat here, and the band is $193k to $236k. Hybrid. Private client and owner managed business tax with a real cross border element, which is the thing San Diego has and Sacramento and Fresno don't.

Above the cross border work it's the normal shape of the job. Reviewing what the managers have signed off, running the relationships that matter most, and being in the planning conversations that happen long before anyone thinks about a return.

The honest part: cross border means your signature is on returns where the rules are less settled than you'd like. Some people find that the most interesting part of the year. If you'd rather everything were clean and domestic, this is the wrong seat and there are plenty of those about.

• $193k to $236k, hybrid, in San Diego
• Cross border work as a real part of the job rather than a novelty
• Private client and owner managed business at the top end
• Planning through the autumn with the families who own the businesses
• The catch: unsettled rules and your name on them

• Reviewing and signing the returns with the most going on in them
• The cross border reporting and the questions that come with it
• Holding the largest client relationships
• Bringing the managers underneath you on

• 8 years or more in public accounting, with time at manager
• Some cross border or international exposure, even if it wasn't your specialism