International Tax Senior Manager

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Wipfli is seeking an experienced International Tax Senior Manager to serve as a strategic account leader and trusted advisor to multinational companies. This role leads complex U.S. international tax engagements and broader client relationships, helping senior tax, finance, accounting, and business stakeholders navigate cross-border compliance, planning, transactions, and reporting. The Senior Manager will coordinate multidisciplinary Wipfli teams, develop Managers and other professionals, and help strengthen and grow the firm’s International Tax practice.

Responsibilities:

• Own and strategically lead a portfolio of key multinational client accounts, serving as a senior relationship contact and trusted advisor across international and related domestic tax needs.
• Develop deep knowledge of clients’ global business models, ownership structures, transactions, risk profiles, and strategic priorities to anticipate needs and deliver forward-looking guidance.
• Lead complex inbound and outbound international tax engagements with accountability for scope, technical quality, engagement economics, staffing, risk management, deadlines, and executive-level communication.
• Oversee U.S. corporate and partnership tax compliance, including Forms 1120, 1065, and 1120-F, extensions, estimated tax payments, and related elections and disclosures, as well as state and local filing requirements.
• Review complex U.S. international tax forms, computations, disclosures, and work papers, including Forms 5471, 5472, 8858, 8865, 1118, 1042, 1042-S, 8991, 8992, and 8993, as applicable.
• Provide senior-level guidance on Subpart F, NCTI, foreign tax credits, Section 163(j), FDDEI, BEAT, Section 245A, PTEP, tax treaties, withholding, repatriation, foreign currency matters, and cross-border structuring.
• Advise senior client stakeholders on tax consequences, risks, and planning alternatives associated with global operations, investments, distributions, transactions, entity structures, and organizational changes.
• Connect international tax considerations with federal corporate tax, state and local tax, transfer pricing, ASC 740, transaction reporting, employment tax, and broader business objectives, coordinating Wipfli specialists to deliver integrated solutions.
• Resolve unusual or complex technical and engagement matters, determine when consultation or escalation is appropriate, and maintain quality-control standards across the portfolio.
• Monitor legislative, regulatory, and administrative developments and communicate actionable implications to clients and professionals across the firm.
• Lead and develop Managers, Seniors, and Associates; provide technical consultation and deliver practice-wide training and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Champion standardization, technology, and process improvements involving work papers, templates, calculation models, review tools, data collection, automation, and scalable compliance delivery.
• Drive practice growth through expansion of existing client relationships, proposals, new business development, cross-functional collaboration, marketplace activities, and continued development of Wipfli’s international tax capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant…