Do you have a passion for building? Have you been described as having a “growth mindset?” Do you enjoy creating and executing strategies around growth? Does leading and developing others excite you? If so, please keep reading!
Ranked among the largest accounting and consulting firms in the country and consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work, Cherry Bekaert delivers innovative advisory, assurance and tax services to our clients. We are proud to foster a collaborative environment focused on enabling your career growth and continuous professional development. Our strategy is to be digitally driven, industry-aligned, and focused on the middle market.
To continue our rapid growth and success in providing compliance, planning, and consulting services to our clients, we’re currently seeking a Tax Partner to be a growth engine for our Chicago Tax practice. Previous service line, regional, market, or industry leadership experience is desirable.
In this highly visible role, you'll be responsible for designing, leading, and building the Chicago tax practice focused on tax compliance and tax provision outsourcing for middle-market, private equity backed and public companies. We're looking for a results-driven partner who will contribute to expanding the practice by using their strong professional network presence and by engaging in business development opportunities with other firm leaders. Exceptional business development experience and client relationship skills are necessary.
Our ideal candidate will have experience with a variety of middle market commercial industries including Industrials & Consumer Goods (manufacturing, distribution, transportation, retail), Private Equity, Real Estate, or similar. Prior International or M&A tax related experience is desirable. This position will be based in Chicago and relocation assistance may be provided. Limited travel should be expected.
Your key responsibilities will include:
Consistently grow the practice through expansion of services to existing clients, cross selling with other advisory practices, and obtaining new clients.
Execute the Firm and Tax Service Line vision, strategy, and goals for the Chicago tax practice, as well as support other leaders in their execution of the strategic plan.
Ensure discipline around execution of Service Line business processes and Firm business practices for the Chicago tax practice.
Manage the utilization and productivity of professionals in the practice to achieve operational and financial targets.
Utilize leadership skills, acting as a role model, to provide coaching, mentoring, and training in the development of partners and professionals within the practice and build a talent pipeline with the requisite technical expertise.
Drive consistency, collaboration and communication among Service Line, Market Leaders, Shared Service Leaders, Advisory and Industry Leaders as well as with other stakeholders.
Develop the Chicago tax annual budget and drive results against budget and key performance indicators throughout the year for the practice.
Qualifications:
Must have an active CPA license.
Experience in business taxation with a large local, regional, or national public accounting firm with a focus on providing federal (ASC 740), multi-state, international tax-related compliance and consulting services to large middle market clients and U.S. based subsidiaries of foreign multinationals.
Demonstrated experience in driving growth and building an office, practice, industry group, service line or similar.
Ability to drive success through the influencing of Partners and staff.
What you can expect from us:
• Entrepreneurial environment focused on professional development, career advancement, and performance and rewards opportunities.
• Supportive partnership group with a “one firm” mentality and a commitment to colleagues’ success.
• Big firm resources and bench strength; small firm flexibility and openness to new ideas.
• Defined metrics and targets that eliminate ambiguity.
• Flexible work arrangements with generous PTO, including a firmwide week off for the 4th of July.
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Benefits Information:
Cherry Bekaert cares about our people. We offer competitive compensation packages based on performance that recognize the value our people bring to our clients and our Firm. The salary range for this position is included below. Individual salaries within this range are determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, education, knowledge, skills, and geographic location. In addition, we offer a comprehensive, high-quality benefits program which includes annual bonus, medical, dental, and vision care; disability and life insurance; generous Paid Time Off; retirement plans; Paid Care Leave; and other programs that are dedicated to enhancing your personal and work life and providing you and your family with a measure of financial protection.
About Cherry Bekaert
Cherry Bekaert, ranked among the largest assurance, tax and advisory firms in the U.S., serves clients across industries in all 50 U.S. states and internationally. For more details, visit https://www.cbh.com/disclosure/
Cherry Bekaert provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. https://careers.cbh.com/legal-disclosures/ contains further information regarding the firm's compliance with federal, state and local recruitment and hiring laws.
This role is expected to accept applications for at least five calendar days and may continue to be posted until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.
Candidates must demonstrate eligibility to work in the United States. Cherry Bekaert will not provide work sponsorship for this position.
Cherry Bekaert LLP and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC are members of Allinial Global, an accountancy and business advisory global association. Visit us at https://careers.cbh.com/ and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
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This role is expected to accept applications for at least five calendar days and may continue to be posted until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.
Candidates must demonstrate eligibility to work in the United States. Cherry Bekaert will not provide work sponsorship for this position.
Cherry Bekaert LLP and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC are members of Allinial Global, an accountancy and business advisory global association.
What We Do
Cherry Bekaert delivers digitally driven and industry-aligned solutions to elevate our clients from mid-market players to market leaders in a hypercompetitive landscape. Ranked among the largest accounting firms in the United States, we offer specialized solutions across assurance, tax, business valuations, digital consulting, M&A and other advisory services to advance our clients' business goals. For more than 75 years, global corporations, private businesses, government entities, nonprofits, emerging firms, start-ups and successful individuals have relied on Cherry Bekaert to guide them forward as their growth advisor.
We offer professional opportunities and resources in an environment that is supportive, flexible, entrepreneurial, and offers personal growth. We invest in our people to help transform their careers. Bringing together diverse talents and backgrounds, we empower our people to achieve more. This supports our mission: “Making a Difference for our people, our clients, our community and our professions."
Cherry Bekaert specializes in serving industry sectors including Government Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Hospitality & Retail, Industrial Manufacturing, Not-for-Profits, Private Equity Services, Professional Services, Real Estate & Construction and Technology. In addition, The Firm has an international reach through our affiliation with Allinial Global.
For more information, please visit cbh.com, and be sure to follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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