Tax Manager (Dayton)

Title: Tax Manager

Office Location(s): Dayton, OH or Cincinnati, OH

(Hybrid Schedule)

About the Company

Our client is a long-established, independent CPA and advisory firm that's built its reputation on straightforward advice and lasting client relationships. The firm serves privately held businesses, family-owned companies, and high net worth individuals, and many of those clients have been with the firm for generations. They're adding a Tax Manager to a busy tax practice where proactive planning matters as much as compliance.

About the Role

In this role, you'll own a portfolio of individual and business clients, review complex returns, lead planning work, and mentor the next group of tax professionals. Partners here invest heavily in their people, and there's a real path to Senior Manager, Director, and Partner for someone who wants to build a long-term career with the firm. The role offers a hybrid schedule.

Responsibilities

• Manage tax compliance and advisory engagements for individuals, partnerships, S corporations, and C corporations
• Review complex returns for accuracy, quality, and compliance before they go out the door
• Build and carry out proactive tax planning strategies for business owners and their families
• Serve as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for a book of closely held business and high net worth clients
• Research complex tax issues and present clear recommendations to clients and firm leadership
• Support trust, estate, and succession planning work for clients thinking about the next generation
• Manage engagement workflow, staffing, budgets, and deadlines
• Mentor, train, and develop staff and senior accountants
• Handle IRS and state notices, examinations, and dispute resolution
• Spot opportunities to expand client relationships and bring in additional advisory work

Qualifications

• 5+ years of public accounting tax experience
• Active CPA license
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field

Required Skills

• Strong technical knowledge of individual, partnership, S corporation, and C corporation taxation
• Experience reviewing returns and managing client engagements from start to finish
• Solid tax research and analytical skills
• A track record of supervising and mentoring staff
• Clear, confident communication with clients and colleagues
• The ability to keep multiple engagements and deadlines on track

Preferred Skills

• Work with closely held and family-owned businesses in industries like manufacturing and distribution, real estate, healthcare, restaurants and retail, or nonprofits
• Trust, estate, or gift tax experience
• Exposure to succession planning or ownership transition work

What Makes This Opportunity Stand Out

• A defined path to Senior Manager, Director, and Partner, with leadership that promotes from within
• A partner mentoring program and 360 degree feedback, so you know where you stand and what's next
• Meaningful client relationships and real advisory work, not just compliance
• Generous paid time off starting in year one, plus profit sharing, a 401(k), and comprehensive medical and dental
• Employer paid life and long term disability insurance, with professional dues and CPE covered
• Leadership that genuinely supports work life balance and a close, collaborative team
• Access to the resources of a national accounting alliance while keeping the feel of an independent firm

This is a great fit for a CPA who wants to lead client relationships, develop a team, and build a long-term career at a firm that invests in its future partners. For immediate consideration, please contact Gage Plueger or Gatlin Johnson directly.

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