[Hiring] Tax Director @RES Consultant Group

Role Description

As Tax Director, your mission is to lead the firm’s tax department with both hands—serving as the senior technical authority, the primary driver of Tax Advisory Services (TAS) growth, and the leader who develops the people and systems that make it all run. You will own the firm’s most important business unit, sit on the firm’s leadership team, and be responsible for delivering an exceptional client experience at every tier.

What Success Looks Like (Key Outcomes)

• Operational Excellence: The tax department runs with consistency, accountability, and quality—returns are accurate, deadlines are met, strategies are implemented, and the team doesn’t need to be managed to the clock.
• Team Health: Your advisors and preparers are developed, supported, and performing well. Turnover is low. Standards are high.
• TAS Growth: The advisory practice expands and deepens across the client base. TAS clients receive proactive, high-value guidance, and they feel it.
• Client Relationships: High-value clients are retained, well served, and growing with the firm. The senior-most clients trust you personally.

Core Competencies (A-Player Qualities)

• Technical Mastery: Deep expertise in tax planning, compliance, and complex return review—business and individual.
• Leadership & Management: Skilled at coaching, motivating, and holding teammates accountable.
• Advisory Mindset: You think proactively and creatively, communicate tax strategy clearly, and make clients feel like they’re in good hands.
• Problem Solver: You diagnose difficult tax and financial situations quickly and propose smart, defensible solutions.
• Ownership & Accountability: You follow through. Full stop.
• Strategic Thinker: You can zoom out from the work in front of you and contribute to where the firm is going.

Qualifications

• CPA required; MS in Taxation strongly preferred
• 10+ years of public accounting experience with meaningful time in a leadership or review capacity
• Mastery of tax strategy development. Ability to quickly diagnose a client’s situation and sketch out the tactics to mitigate their tax exposure
• Deep fluency in individual and business taxation—1040s, 1120-S, 1065, multi-state, multi-entity structures
• Proven ability to build and maintain client relationships at the advisory level
• Experience managing or developing tax staff
• Comfortable in a growing firm—you bring structure, not just headcount

Benefits

• Performance bonuses
• 401k + employer match of 100% of contribution up to 4% of salary
• Health insurance + optional dental and vision
• Additional workplace perks