Tax Senior Manager Distinct Recruitment - 4.5 Newport Beach, CA Job Details Full-time $179,000 - $219,000 a year 4 hours ago Qualifications CPA Handling wage garnishments Public accounting All consultants (tax preparation) Accounting firm experience Senior leadership Full Job Description Two Orange County firms changed hands in the last 10 months. That's not a scandal, it's arithmetic. The partners who built them are in their 60s and there was nobody underneath ready to buy. So there's a senior manager seat here that isn't really a senior manager seat. $179k to $219k, hybrid, Newport Beach. On paper you'd review the complicated returns and run the biggest engagements. In practice you'd be the person the partner is deciding about, and both of you would know it. The work is private client and owner managed business tax at the top end. Returns with trusts and partnerships stacked inside them, planning that happens in October rather than April, and the clients who ring you rather than the office.

The honest part:

a seat like this usually exists because somebody is winding down, so you'd inherit a book with its history in it. Some of those clients have been doing things a certain way since 2009 and will tell you so. Why this firm $179k to $219k, hybrid, out of Newport Beach The seat above manager, with the succession conversation actually on the table Private client and owner managed work at the complicated end Planning as a real part of the year, not a thing you squeeze into November The catch: you'd inherit a book rather than build one, and books come with habits What you'll be doing Reviewing and signing the returns nobody else wants to touch Running the largest engagements and the relationships inside them Planning work with owners and families through the autumn Developing the managers underneath you What you'll have CPA 8 years or more in public accounting, with a stretch at manager A view on what you want your name on in 5 years

Next Steps:

The apply button works fine. A phone call tells you more than an advert ever will, though, so if you'd rather do that, I'm on 916 713 5173. Confidential, and if you decide your firm is the right one after all, no harm done. I start at 5am and I'm about at weekends. Dale Cawley, Distinct North America.

CALCPA Pay:

$179,000.00 - $219,000.00 per year

Work Location:

Hybrid remote in Newport Beach, CA 92659