Baker Tilly US India | Tax Senior Manager

Responsibilities

• The team offers strong exposure to technical tax work, client collaboration, and evolving regulatory environments, creating opportunities to build deep tax expertise, ownership, and long-term career growth in a dynamic and supportive setting.
• You’ll be part of a supportive, collaborative team where people share knowledge and take pride in doing meaningful work together.
• This role offers exposure to a diverse client base, helping you build well-rounded experience while working with modern tools and evolving practices.
• You’ll be encouraged to grow, take initiative, and shape your career in a way that aligns with your strengths and interests.
• Advise clients on partnership, corporate, individual, trust, and estate tax matters across a variety of engagements and industries.
• Serve as the primary engagement leader responsible for client management, billing, realization, and collections activities.
• Lead and perform final reviews of federal, state, local, foreign, corporate, partnership, and individual tax returns, estimated payments, and extensions.
• Monitor, interpret, and apply U.S. tax laws and regulations to support accurate and compliant tax filings.
• Provide technical leadership on complex tax matters and support resolution of engagement-related issues.
• Mentor, coach, and develop Managers, Seniors, and Staff across technical tax knowledge, client management, and engagement execution.
• Support business development activities including networking, client expansion, and new business opportunities.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through proactive communication and trusted advisory support.
• Manage multiple client engagements and priorities while ensuring high-quality deliverables and timely execution.
• Define engagement scope, objectives, and methodologies while collaborating closely with client leadership to identify tax planning and advisory opportunities.
• Leverage technology, tools, and available resources to improve engagement quality, efficiency, and service delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in U.S. Taxation required.
• Previous experience within a public accounting or professional services environment preferred.
• Strong knowledge of partnership, corporate and individual taxation.
• Minimum 4 years of experience leading, mentoring, and developing team members.
• Experience supporting large, multi-state, and internationally active middle-market clients preferred.
• Strong business development and client relationship management skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple engagements, priorities, and deadlines effectively.

Baker Tilly US, LLP

The firm's roots in the United States go back to 1931, when it began as Virchow, Krause & Company, and the current partnership was organised in 1953. It joined Baker Tilly International in 1999 and took the Baker Tilly name in 2009. It has since grown through mergers with ParenteBeard in 2014 and Squar Milner in 2020, among others. Baker Tilly provides audit and assurance, tax, and advisory services, with a CPA firm handling attest work and a separate advisory group handling tax and consulting. In 2023 it formed a joint venture with the Indian firm Pierian Services, called BT Pierian, to add service delivery capacity in India across assurance, advisory and managed services.

The openings are mostly in Bengaluru, with some roles in Gurugram and Kochi. US tax roles at manager and senior manager level ask for CPA, CA or an Enrolled Agent certification. Assurance and internal audit roles prefer CA, CPA or CIA. Other postings cover accounting advisory, transaction advisory, business valuation, corporate finance advisory, FP&A, treasury, cash applications, billing, private equity fund services and managed accounting services. Roles run from associate to senior manager, and the accounting advisory roles in Gurugram ask for CA, CPA or ACCA.

• Industry: Accounting, tax, assurance and advisory services, including managed accounting services
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, United States (U.S. member firm of Baker Tilly International)
• In India: BT Pierian, a joint venture with the Indian firm Pierian Services formed in 2023; finance and accounting roles in Bengaluru, Gurugram and Kochi