Senior Consultant, Business Tax Advisory | Real Estate Solutions

FTI Consulting's Corporate Finance & Restructuring practice focuses on our clients' strategic, operational, financial and capital needs by addressing the full spectrum of financial and transactional challenges faced by corporations, boards, private equity sponsors, creditor constituencies and other stakeholders.

FTI Consulting's Real Estate Solutions has a singular focus on the real estate and finance industry and the capital markets that serve it. Our services are designed to create integrated financial, tax and real estate solutions for clients having underlying value in real estate operations and assets. We provide an unsurpassed range of real estate advisory services including merger and acquisitions, due diligence, valuation, lease consulting, forensic accounting, financial outsourcing, IPO, REIT tax structuring and compliance, executive compensation, master planning and development services, cost segregation and private client services.

We represent leading public and private real estate entities including Equity and Mortgage REITs, financial institutions, investment banks, opportunity funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, pension advisors and owners/developers.

This is a great opportunity for a tax professional to play a significant role on a major client-service team. This person will oversee day-to-day workflow management. Responsiveness to client deadlines (for both tax return and special projects/consulting) is essential.

Candidate will possess strong compliance skills (i.e. management of the tax return preparation process) as well as the ability to grow technically. Excellent interpersonal skills are required for this team-oriented position. Candidate will have the opportunity to grow with high visibility clients.

Candidate will also be responsible for other real estate clients, including real estate investment trusts (REITS) and private equity real estate funds. This will be a challenging and fast- paced environment that is results-oriented with a focus on collaboration as well as professional and career growth.

- Review of Corporate, Partnership, Individual, Trust, Nonprofit, and Gift tax returns.

- Responsible for highlighting tax issues or unusual relationships from basic analysis of the financial statements and tax documents.

- Clearly and accurately document the tax compliance forms as defined in planning.

- Assign and review work papers to staff and assist in writing correspondence to tax authorities.

- Demonstrate professionalism and competence with client matters, as well as personal growth.

- Focus on client requests, be responsive to client changes and develop strong relationships with client personnel.

- Responsible for training tax team members through teamwork and leadership. Set goals and responsibilities. Furnish feedback during the tax compliance process and foster openness to communicate.

- Strive towards learning client accounting/tax systems and processes.

- Gaining knowledge of the client's business and staying current on industry and related tax matters and ability to present information to entire tax team, as well as, propose enhancements to client's future tax planning.

- Demonstrating professionalism and developing collaborative skills in dealings with internal and external clients.

- Use of technology to enhance and streamline the tax preparation and reporting process.

- Assisting in development of potential opportunities and contacts for Real Estate Solutions. Assist in proposal process.

- Continuation of your educational and career growth through self-study, CPA exam preparation and internal/external CPE courses.

- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; the employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas

- Strong analytical skills and accounting or audit knowledge

- Knowledge of Excel, MS-Word; familiarity with tax preparation software (GO System preferred)