Tax Compliance Manager
At a glance
Manager-level Tax role at Driven Advisors. Guaynabo · full-time.
In listing Tax salary
financeroles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Plan tax engagements, assign staff based on their skills, and guide the work through completion
- Review complex federal and state returns for businesses, partnerships, fiduciaries, and individuals
- Track filing deadlines and client terms, examine work papers, and flag key developments to partners
- Research Puerto Rico and U.S. tax questions to support planning and consulting work
- Coach and assess tax staff, prepare client bills, and help identify further services for clients
What you bring
- A bachelor’s degree in business administration with an accounting focus and an active CPA license
- At least three years at a CPA firm, with up-to-date knowledge of tax law
- Fluent spoken and written Spanish and English
Who this fits
You’ll suit a manager role that combines tax review and client work with staff supervision, coaching, and performance assessment. The position is based in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The stated annual salary range is $85,000 to $125,000, depending on experience and qualifications.
From the employer
Driven Advisors is a top-tier financial advisory firm focused on transforming the way in which companies and their teams see numbers, driving opportunities for change and growth. Our work is defined by a relentless passion to solve your most complex business problems.
Primary Objectives: The Tax Compliance Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and reviewing tax compliance engagements to ensure they are completed accurately, efficiently, and in accordance with firm policies, tax filing deadlines, and client agreements. This role provides leadership to the tax team by supervising, coaching, and mentoring staff while fostering professional development and maintaining high-quality service standards.
Principal Responsibilities:
1. Responsible for planning, supervising, and completing tax compliance engagements in a wide variety of industries.
2. Plan the timing and assigning of staff to engagements. This involves analysis of staff’s abilities, and the allocation of management time for assisting and training staff.
3. Assure client list tax returns deadline compliance and ascertain that we are meeting engagement terms.
4. Serve as intermediaries between partners, clients, and tax seniors. This means conducting primary and secondary review of complicated federal and state income tax returns including corporate, partnership, fiduciary and individual clients and managing consulting work.
5. Analysis of technical issues and working closely with partners and staff as a team with an ultimate goal of excellent client service.
6. Review engagement work papers, resolve any problems, and keep the partner informed of all important developments in the engagement.
7. Prepare client billings. This may include assisting with collections when appropriate.
8. Evaluate the performance of tax professionals as required by firm policy.
9. Facilitate the professional development and technical knowledge of the staff.
10. Develop new client contacts and relationships beneficial to the firm. These can be professional, civic, and/or community service contacts.
11. Assist in administrative functions as assigned by the partners.
12. Recognize opportunities to provide additional services to existing clients.
13. Performs research in tax related matters (PR & USA Taxes) in order to conduct tax planning and consulting services.
14. Review resumes, and conduct interviews for the recruitment of candidates.
15. Effectively administer the budgeted hours assigned to the consulting task.
16. Develops the documentation and reviewing techniques according to the consulting schedule.
17. Effectively identify risk and/or issues and provide solutions to the engagement.
Education, Training and/or Experience Required:
This position requires a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting and an active CPA license. Master's or Law degree in Taxation is a plus. Minimum three (3) years of experience in a CPA firm and current technical knowledge in tax law.
Language, Skills and Knowledge:
Excellent communications and organization skills are a must. Ability to write and speak fluently in both Spanish and English.
Ability to read, analyzes, and interprets general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence writes routine reports and correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers. Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions and percentages. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry. Ability to work with several projects at a time and have attention to detail.
Employee Benefits:
401k, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Vacations, Sick, Holidays.
Salary: The annual salary range for this position is $85,000 to $125,000, based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.