RSM US India | Tax Manager - Federal Credits & Incentives (FCI)

Responsibilities

• Onboard new staff members and ensure on the job training is delivered by appropriate team members
• Perform tax planning and research, resolving complex tax issues, and giving recommendations to clients, as it relates specifically to the R&D credit.
• Managing and implementing multiple projects simultaneously, which include client interviews, computations, analysis, data gathering, and coordination of resources.
• Drafting opinion letters, responses to IRS inquiries, IRS Ruling requests, and writing other technical memoranda.
• Develop an understanding of client's business and become a "functional expert" in the area.
• Contribute as industry expert by keeping abreast of changes in industry regulation, maintain competency through continuing education and obtaining additional professional certifications.
• Perform detail final review of all tax work papers, engagement deliverables.
• Assist in continuous improvements of processes and models, provide feedback.
• Provide training and guidance to staff by walking through review comments.
• Generate and sustain client relationships
• Help manage and drive the success of multiple R&D engagements
• Scoping the taxpayers for a potential business opportunity
• Take active role in the training, mentoring and development of staff

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Sec 41 and Sec 174.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in public accounting, or a combination of public accounting and industry.
• Experience in moderate to complex federal and state R&D tax credit calculations.
• Ability to work closely with the Onshore team to answer questions or to collect necessary information for tax service requirements.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Experience in Quantitative part of the R&D.
• Experience working for large national accounting firm in a specialized practice area.
• Experience in interacting with clients directly is an added advantage.
• Advanced Excel and Access skills
• Experience in US Tax R&D

RSM US LLP

Ira B. McGladrey opened an accounting practice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1926, and the firm that grew from it, long known as McGladrey, became RSM US LLP in 2015 when it joined other firms in the RSM International network under the RSM brand. Now headquartered in Chicago, it provides assurance, tax and consulting services with a focus on middle-market companies, and since 1 January 2026 it has worked with RSM UK in a transatlantic partnership. In India the firm operates through RSM US Integrated Services India Private Limited, a subsidiary that provides services to the US firm, with offices in Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad and Kolkata.

Work in India supports RSM's US practice. Tax roles cover US federal, state and local, international, Canada and pass-through tax, hedge funds and real estate, credits and incentives, and accounting methods. Assurance teams serve financial institutions, private equity funds and technology clients and handle review and compilation work; financial consulting spans fund services, property accounting, technical accounting and finance-as-a-service. Postings usually ask for a B.Com, BBA or accounting degree with a CA, CPA or ACCA; many tax roles also accept an Enrolled Agent, and some prefer an MBA or a master's in accounting or taxation.

• Industry: Professional services: assurance, tax and consulting for middle-market companies
• Headquarters: Chicago, United States (RSM US LLP)
• In India: RSM US Integrated Services India Private Limited, a subsidiary of RSM US LLP, with offices in Bengaluru (two sites at Embassy Manyata), Gurugram, Hyderabad and Kolkata