Manager, Tax Process Strategy & Solutions

We are the leading provider of professional services to the middle market globally, our purpose is to instill confidence in a world of change, empowering our clients and people to realize their full potential. Our exceptional people are the key to our unrivaled, inclusive culture and talent experience and our ability to be compelling to our clients. You’ll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally. There’s no one like you and that’s why there’s nowhere like RSM. Tax Process Strategy & Solutions team is a fast-paced, high-energy, collaborative environment within the Tax Operations organization. It is a dynamic team with professionals of varying backgrounds from tax functional, tax technical, process improvement, and product management who partner with practice leaders to align engagement tools and processes with business needs, leveraging technology to streamline operations and enhance the user experience of RSM tax professionals and clients. The team consults and executes on a wide range of initiatives involving process and tool development and implementation including training development, engagement management, tool design, and implementation.  JOB SUMMARY The Tax Process Strategy & Solutions Manager supports process leads and the Tax Practice to understand how one or more product(s) fit into the overall “vision” for one or more business area(s). The goal of this role is to drive long-term scalability and sustainability of the business for a competitive advantage. To execute their area of responsibility, this role collaborates with staff, the tax practice, product teams, IT, other functional areas within the broader RSM firm, and field offices to ensure we achieve the vision cohesively and effectively. You will play a key role in the build-out and continued improvement and stewardship of our process and technology for US individual and trust/estate taxation. The ideal candidate will be a self-directed problem solver with an ownership mindset and will have: (a) extensive experience independently preparing and reviewing complex Form 1040 and 1041 tax returns, as well as having handled and advised on diverse issues and complexities (federal, state and foreign) arising from ownership of complex flowthrough (partnership, S-Corporation) operating businesses, real estate entities, fund of funds, hedge funds and private equity; and (b) played a key hand in technology, tax research, process improvement or workpaper standardization initiatives: whether at the practice, region or market level, or within the context of one or more large or complex engagements. ESSENTIAL DUTIES Collaborates with process leads and Tax practice SMEs to understand how products fit into the overall "vision" for one or more business area(s).