Baker Tilly US India | Tax 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.
• Support engagement planning activities by defining tax service scope, objectives, and methodologies while collaborating closely with client management teams.
• Oversee the calculation, analysis, and delivery of tax planning strategies and recommendations for clients.
• Review and manage preparation of federal, state, local, and international tax returns, estimated payments, and extensions.
• Monitor and apply U.S. tax laws and regulations relevant to client engagements and tax compliance activities.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through proactive communication, networking, and business development support.
• Lead, mentor, and supervise Tax Seniors and Staff through coaching, collaboration, and performance guidance.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, enhance service delivery, and support operational efficiencies.
• Manage multiple client engagements and priorities while ensuring high-quality deliverables and timely completion.
• Support continuous learning and technical development across the team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 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 2 years of experience leading, supervising, or mentoring team members preferred.
• Experience working with large, multi-state, or internationally active middle-market clients preferred.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication abilities.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple engagements and deadlines effectively.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and within collaborative team environments.

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