Senior Director, Tax Strategy and Operations

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The Senior Director, Tax Strategy & Operations is a senior business leader responsible for helping scale and align Armanino's Tax business under Vision 2030. Working alongside Tax leadership and business operations, this leader drives enterprise execution across regions, practices, industries, and service lines so the organization operates as one integrated business.

This role focuses on strategy execution, organizational effectiveness, partner alignment, growth initiatives, leadership development, and cross-functional collaboration. The primary purpose is to build a high-performing, growth-oriented professional services organization positioned for sustained long-term success.

Job Responsibilities

• Partner with the Partner-in-Charge and Tax Leadership Team to execute Tax Vision 2030 and translate strategic priorities into measurable action.

• Lead complex initiatives requiring coordination across practices, regions, industries, service lines, and stakeholder groups.

• Help shape annual business plans, investment priorities, organizational design, resource allocation, and leadership succession strategies.

• Identify opportunities to improve growth, scalability, profitability, client experience, and organizational effectiveness.

• Serve as a trusted advisor on business strategy, enterprise leadership, and major organizational decisions.

• Build alignment across regional and national leadership teams while promoting transparency, accountability, and shared ownership.

• Facilitate collaboration among partners and leaders, resolve organizational friction, and expand the sharing of best practices and innovation.

• Champion collaboration across Tax, Consulting, Audit & Assurance, and firmwide service lines to increase cross-selling and integrated client solutions.

• Support go-to-market strategies, emerging capabilities, strategic pursuits, and enterprise-first growth opportunities.

• Develop leadership expectations and coach partners on collaboration, team development, business leadership, and enterprise thinking.

• Identify and develop future leaders, support succession planning, and sponsor development programs for directors, senior managers, and emerging leaders.

• Partner with regional and national leaders on career pathways, promotion discussions, senior lateral hiring, and leadership integration.

• Partner with business operations leadership to strengthen execution capabilities, scalable delivery models, and continuous improvement.

• Drive leadership adoption of tools, technology, AI, automation, and operational best practices that enhance business performance.

• Help ensure a consistent client experience across regions and practices while providing business-level escalation support.

• Serve as a voting member of the Tax Leadership Team and lead enterprise initiatives on its behalf.

Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of experience leading professional services organizations, business units, practice groups, or comparable complex enterprises.

• Demonstrated success driving growth, organizational transformation, business strategy, and execution in a complex matrix environment.

• Proven ability to align diverse stakeholders, build high-performing leadership teams, and lead through influence rather than positional authority.

• Strong understanding of professional services economics and operating models, with sufficient technical credibility to engage senior professionals and clients.

• Flexibility to travel across regions and work remotely while collaborating in person approximately half the time.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, JD, LLM, MBA, MST, or a comparable professional credential.

• Experience developing future leaders and coordinating succession for critical leadership roles.

• Experience supporting integrated go-to-market strategies, cross-selling, technology adoption, AI, automation, or process improvement in professional services.

"Armanino" is the brand name under which Armanino LLP and Armanino Advisory LLC, independently owned entities, provide professional services in an alternative practice structure in accordance with law, regulations, and professional standards. Armanino LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services, and Armanino Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities provide tax, advisory, and business consulting services. Armanino Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.

Armanino provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Armanino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.  

Armanino expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Armanino employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.  

Armanino does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals, or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity, or third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes, or candidates submitted to Armanino or any employee or owner of Armanino without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Armanino and not subject to any fees or charges. For existing agreements, a role must be approved and open to external search; otherwise, unsolicited and unapproved submittals and referrals will be considered Armanino property and free of fees. In addition, Talent Acquisition is the sole point of contact, and contacting others in our organization without Talent Acquisition’s knowledge will result in termination of contract. 

Certain states require us to disclose the pay range and benefits summary for job openings. For Colorado residents, the compensation range for this position: $226,200 - $308,100. For Washington residents, Illinois residents, New York residents, and Southern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $248,800 - $338,900. For Northern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $260,100 - $354,300. Compensation may vary based on skills, role, and location. Eligible employees at certain levels can participate in a discretionary long-term financial incentive plan, subject to plan participation rules.

Armanino has a robust offering of benefits, including: 

• Medical, dental, vision

• Generous PTO plan and paid sick time

• Flexible work arrangements

• 401K with Profit Sharing

• Wellness program

• Generous parental leave

• 11 paid holidays

For positions based in San Francisco, consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, an arrest and conviction record will not automatically disqualify a qualified applicant from consideration.  

For Individuals who would be working within the City of Los Angeles, Armanino will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance 

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