Tax Credits & Advisory Senior Manager - Cost Segregation

As a Tax Director in our Tax Credits & Incentives Advisory (TCIA) Practice, you will work with an excellent team of CPAs, engineers, and tax law experts. The group offers unparalleled knowledge and service in the area of tax credits and accounting methods and helps companies identify and realize value-added opportunities.

Tax Credits & Incentives Advisory (“TCIA”), within Cherry Bekaert’s Strategic Tax Advisory practice, is a quickly growing group generating more than $20 Million in annual revenue for the firm. TCIA provides the following services to its clients:

• Cost Segregation Services
• Qualified Production Property
• R&D Tax Incentive Services
• Fixed Asset Services
• Site Selection Services
• State Credits & Incentives
• Employee Retention Credit Services
• Energy Tax Consulting
• Section 179D
• Investment Tax Credit and Production Tax Credits
• Inflation Reduction Act application-based incentives

You will help develop the vision, strategies, and action plans to grow Cherry Bekaert’s TCIA Practice. Specifically, you will work to manage and execute cost segregation, fixed asset review, and oversee IRC Section 179D projects for our clients. Fundamentally, daily tasks will include separating the cost components of a building into their proper asset classifications and recovery period for the purposes of accelerating depreciation.

• Report to the leader of the TCIA practice as well as other Partners and Directors who make up an integrated team providing credits and incentive (C&I) offerings to our clients.
• Work with new clients as well as core tax and audit partners to articulate the value of a Cost Segregation, QPP, 179D Analysis.
• Perform site inspections of client properties to take detailed measurements, photographs, and notes of the various components of the property for IRS audit substantiation purposes.
• Cost all components of architectural, site, mechanical and electrical construction utilizing historical cost databases such as RS Means as well as industry accepted techniques and methods.
• Work closely with other leaders in TCIA to discuss R&D, Energy, and other incentive opportunities to our clients.
• Analyze construction general ledgers, contractor payment applications, and other cost/financial documentation, and reconciling the information to various accounting records.
• Review fixed asset registers to assess whether any fixed assets may be reclassified through a method change to a more appropriate tax recovery period.
• Prepare schedules that support findings in accordance with IRS standards.
• Meet client expectations by adhering to pre-established deadlines.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, engineering, technology, or related field.
• A CPA, MST, MAcc, LLM or JD is required for Manager, Senior Manager, and Director positions.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in federal tax compliance or tax consulting services.
• Experience with costing models utilizing Excel pivot tables.
• Desire to participate in strategic planning initiatives.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Preference will be given to candidates who also have experience with accounting methods including uniform capitalization rules; tangible property regulations; capitalization and depreciation; unit of property reviews; cost segregation studies; revenue recognition; and advanced payments and experience preparing or reviewing Form 3115.

• 5+ years of experience in public accounting.
• An understanding of construction design and processes, as well as depreciation, to determine the appropriate tax lives for building assets in accordance with IRS standards.
• A working knowledge of blueprint reading/estimating software such as Blue Beam.
• A working knowledge of software tools such as Seg Stream.
• Knowledge of real estate appraisals and valuations.
• A knowledge of IRS code sections, court cases, revenue rulings and other tax citations related to cost segregation.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills—Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.
• Ability to manage multiple engagements and employees to complete projects in a rapidly growing, fast‑paced, interactive, results‑based team environment.