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Responsibilities: 
- Own and strategically lead a portfolio of key multinational client accounts, serving as a senior relationship contact and trusted advisor across international and related domestic tax needs.
- Develop deep knowledge of clients’ global business models, ownership structures, transactions, risk profiles, and strategic priorities to anticipate needs and deliver forward-looking guidance.
- Lead complex inbound and outbound international tax engagements with accountability for scope, technical quality, engagement economics, staffing, risk management, deadlines, and executive-level communication.
- Oversee U.S. corporate and partnership tax compliance, including Forms 1120, 1065, and 1120-F, extensions, estimated tax payments, and related elections and disclosures, as well as state and local filing requirements.
- Review complex U.S. international tax forms, computations, disclosures, and workpapers, including Forms 5471, 5472, 8858, 8865, 1118, 1042, 1042-S, 8991, 8992, and 8993, as applicable.
- Provide senior-level guidance on Subpart F, NCTI, foreign tax credits, Section 163(j), FDDEI, BEAT, Section 245A, PTEP, tax treaties, withholding, repatriation, foreign currency matters, and cross-border structuring.
- Advise senior client stakeholders on tax consequences, risks, and planning alternatives associated with global operations, investments, distributions, transactions, entity structures, and organizational changes.
- Connect international tax considerations with federal corporate tax, state and local tax, transfer pricing, ASC 740, transaction reporting, employment tax, and broader business objectives, coordinating Wipfli specialists to deliver integrated solutions.
- Resolve unusual or complex technical and engagement matters, determine when consultation or escalation is appropriate, and maintain quality-control standards across the portfolio.
- Monitor legislative, regulatory, and administrative developments and communicate actionable implications to clients and professionals across the firm.
- Lead and develop Managers, Seniors, and Associates; provide technical consultation and deliver practice-wide training and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Champion standardization, technology, and process improvements involving workpapers, templates, calculation models, review tools, data collection, automation, and scalable compliance delivery.
- Drive practice growth through expansion of existing client relationships, proposals, new business development, cross-functional collaboration, marketplace activities, and continued development of Wipfli’s international tax capabilities.

Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance, or a related field.
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience, including significant U.S. international tax and multinational corporate tax experience.
- Demonstrated success leading complex multinational client accounts, multiple concurrent engagements, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Extensive experience reviewing complex international tax computations, forms, disclosures, technical conclusions, and supporting workpapers.
- Experience advising senior client tax and finance leaders and making technical, strategic, and commercial recommendations.
- Advanced technical research, judgment, engagement leadership, business development, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to coach and develop Managers and other tax professionals.
- Preferred Qualifications
- CPA, JD, EA, or other relevant professional credential; master’s degree in Taxation or Accounting, JD, or LLM in Taxation preferred.
- Public accounting experience with a national or large regional CPA firm serving multinational companies.
- Experience with ASC 740, transfer pricing, tax due diligence, state and local tax coordination, international M&A, or cross-border transaction support.
- Experience leading proposals, expanding client relationships, developing service plans, and coordinating multidisciplinary account teams.
- Experience with CCH Axcess, BNA, Checkpoint, international tax compliance software, automation, or advanced Excel modeling.

 
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