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Tax Department Head
Business Financial Group. Lead the day-to-day operations of BFG's Tax Department .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in U.S. tax operations, including managing tax projects, supervising teams, and ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations. Proficient in tax workflow management, quality control, and the use of tax technology to enhance operational efficiency.
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U.S. Tax ExperienceTax Project ManagementTeam SupervisionTax Software ProficiencyQuality Control Procedures
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Hard Skills
U.S. Individual TaxationU.S. Business TaxationForms 1040 PreparationForms 1120S PreparationForms 1065 PreparationTax PlanningTax ResolutionPerformance ReviewProject ManagementWorkflow Standards Development
Soft Skills
CoachingDelegationAccountabilityCommunicationProblem Solving
Tools & Technologies
Tax SoftwareProject Management PlatformsDashboardsAI-Enabled ToolsTax Delivery Systems
Certifications & Qualifications
Enrolled Agent (EA)CPACPA-Track Professional
Industry Keywords
Tax PracticeAccounting FirmCPA FirmEA PracticeProfessional Services
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the day-to-day operations of BFG's Tax Department
- Manage, supervise, coach, and develop tax team members
- Establish expectations for assignments, deadlines, quality, communication, documentation, and accountability
- Conduct department and individual follow-up meetings
- Identify performance, workload, training, and resource issues before they affect client delivery
- Manage the overall tax project pipeline and maintain visibility into project status
- Ensure projects progress through workflow stages from intake and preparation through review, e-filing, delivery, and follow-up
- Monitor deadlines, aging, bottlenecks, dependencies, and overdue tasks
- Assign projects based on experience, competency, workload, deadlines, and complexity
- Monitor capacity and redistribute work as needed
- Provide operational and technical oversight for U.S. business tax engagements
- Oversee preparation and delivery of U.S. individual income tax returns
- Manage tax-planning and tax-resolution workflows
- Coordinate with CPA Advisors, EAs, senior tax professionals, QA, Client Tax Leads, and other specialists
- Ensure quality-control procedures, review comments, and rework items are handled promptly
- Supervise Client Tax Leads and manage tax delivery systems and client-portfolio distribution
- Maintain visibility over federal, state, and internal deadlines
- Develop SOPs, checklists, workflow standards, and documentation requirements
- Improve workflows using automation, AI, tax technology, dashboards, and project-management systems
- Develop a scalable, systematic, measurable tax operation
Requirements
What you’ll need- 6+ years of relevant U.S. tax experience
- Significant practical experience with U.S. individual and business taxation
- Experience preparing and/or reviewing Forms 1040, 1120S, 1065, and preferably 1120
- Previous experience supervising or managing tax professionals
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
- Experience assigning work and monitoring staff capacity
- Experience reviewing employee performance and providing coaching
- Experience working within a tax practice, accounting firm, CPA firm, EA practice, or similar professional-services environment
- Strong familiarity with tax workflow and project-management processes
- Strong practical understanding of U.S. individual and business taxation
- Ability to manage simultaneous tax projects, priorities, deadlines, dependencies, and team assignments
- Ability to lead, coach, delegate, hold team members accountable, resolve performance issues, and develop employees
- Ability to distinguish routine matters from issues requiring senior technical review
- Comfortable learning and using tax software, project-management platforms, dashboards, AI-enabled tools, and other technology
- Professional credentials are preferred but not mandatory
- Preferred: Enrolled Agent (EA), CPA or CPA-track professional, CA/CA Inter with substantial U.S. tax experience, experience with Drake Tax or similar software, offshore/distributed team management, tax planning or tax resolution, and project/workflow-management systems
Benefits
Comp & perks- Remote position
- Full-time employment