Vice President, Tax Practice Leadership - CPA & JD/LLM

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  • Scottsdale, Arizona
  • 7 days ago

    Highlights

    You’ll work with business owners, particularly companies generating $1M+ in revenue, helping them make smarter decisions around tax strategy, entity structure, growth, transactions, and long-term business performance. If you’ve already proven you can lead tax at a high level and want the opportunity to build the practice, team, and strategy from the ground up, this is a role where your leadership can define the future of the function.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationScottsdale, Arizona

    Description

    Vice President, Tax Practice Leadership | Scottsdale, Arizona | $250,000–$350,000/year + estimated $12,000–$15,000 commission

    If you’re a CPA who has built, scaled, or led a tax practice and you’re ready to build one from the ground up, this is a chance to shape an entire tax services business.

    You’ll work with business owners, particularly companies generating $1M+ in revenue, helping them make smarter decisions around tax strategy, entity structure, growth, transactions, and long-term business performance.

    What’s in it for you:
    • Build and launch an entire Tax Services practice from the ground up
    • Shape the practice’s service offerings, pricing, delivery model, and growth strategy
    • Work directly with executive leadership
    • Build and lead a high-performing tax organization
    • Serve business owners and mid-market companies as a strategic tax advisor
    • Join a fast-growing business consulting company with significant career growth potential
    • Competitive compensation and benefits

    What you’ll do:
    • Build the tax practice, including its services, processes, systems, and quality standards
    • Develop multi-year growth strategies, revenue goals, staffing plans, and new service lines
    • Lead tax planning and strategy for small business and mid-market clients
    • Advise on tax liability reduction, entity structures, M&A, acquisitions, partnerships, and business transactions
    • Oversee business and individual tax compliance and required federal and state filings
    • Hire, develop, and lead CPAs, tax managers, and client service professionals
    • Establish technical standards, training, performance expectations, and career development programs
    • Build scalable tax workflows, technology infrastructure, and operational processes
    • Ensure compliance with professional, ethical, regulatory, and IRS requirements
    • Leverage modern tax technology and AI to improve research, compliance, and efficiency
    • Grow the practice through the existing client base, referrals, cross-selling, and strategic relationships

    What you bring:
    • Active CPA license
    • 10+ years of progressive public accounting or tax advisory experience
    • At least 5 years of tax leadership or management experience
    • Deep expertise in business and individual taxation, tax planning, compliance, entity structuring, pass-through taxation, and transactional tax advisory
    • Proven experience building, launching, scaling, or significantly growing a tax practice or service line
    • Experience serving small business and middle-market companies with approximately $1M–$100M in revenue
    • Proven ability to hire, manage, develop, and retain high-performing tax teams
    • Strong executive-level client communication skills
    • Ability to explain complex tax strategies in clear, practical, business-focused terms

    Experience with founder-led businesses, high-growth environments, modern tax technology, or AI tools is strongly preferred. An MST, JD/LLM, or other advanced taxation degree is also preferred.

    If you’ve already proven you can lead tax at a high level and want the opportunity to build the practice, team, and strategy from the ground up, this is a role where your leadership can define the future of the function.

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