Tax Director

Our downtown Seattle family office is seeking a collaborative Tax Director with excellent communication skills for their real estate business. This is a hybrid with two days working from home per week. You will be leading a strong team of two in a long-standing business. This roles is seeking someone with strong tax compliance and planning experience relating to pass thru entities, corporations, and individuals. Additionally, tax provision experience is needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Include but are not limited to the following, as additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned.
• Provide tax planning support for new business activities
• Responsible for the completion of federal and state income tax returns including all related analysis and support
• Responsible for in-house preparation sales and use, general excise tax, real and personal property tax returns
• Responsible for audits of federal and state and local filings
• Respond to related tax correspondence and research issues as they arise and recommend courses of action as needed
• Calculate monthly tax reserve requirement
• Prepare the annual tax provision for financial reporting purposes
• Oversee cost segregation studies
• Ensuring that appropriate internal controls are in place over accounting for taxes
• Oversee the development of the Sr. Tax Manager and Tax Senior Staff
• Support on-going estate planning activities

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting required. Enrolled Agent or CPA preferred.
• A minimum of 7 years of related experience; Pro System tax preparation software experience a plus
• Experience managing staff
• Strong interpersonal skills for interacting accountants, operations, upper management, and family
• Strong verbal/ written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Pay and benefits:

Up to $200k plus bonus. Benefits include MDV, matching retirement plan and vacation time.