Director, US Tax & Accounting

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🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

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🧾 Accounting Manager

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Manila Recruitment

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Manila Recruitment is a leading recruitment agency based in the Philippines, specializing in innovative talent sourcing and headhunting services. The agency provides a wide range of recruitment solutions including executive search, IT recruitment, offshore staffing solutions, remote staffing, and more. With a focus on understanding clients' strategic business objectives, Manila Recruitment offers tailored recruitment strategies for multinationals, corporations, and start-ups entering the Filipino market. The firm prides itself on a process-driven approach, offering comprehensive candidate guarantees and a database of over 250,000 candidates. Certified headhunters at Manila Recruitment are dedicated to passive candidate sourcing, ensuring quality hires that align with company culture and requirements.

📋 Description

• Prepare and review standard US tax returns, including individual (1040), partnership (1065), S-Corporation (1120-S), and C-Corporation (1120) returns • Provide tax projections, planning, tax notices, and general advisory services • Prepare and/or review US tax returns for small business clients, primarily compliance-driven work • Provide tax planning support, approximately 10–15% of the role, particularly toward year-end • Manage professional accounting and bookkeeping services for business owners • Manage financial records, transactions, entries, payments, and reporting primarily using QuickBooks • Provide light oversight of bookkeeping and QuickBooks-related activities • Serve as firm Tax Partner and primary point of contact • Manage client relationships and support staff • Act as a trusted year-round advisor, providing tax compliance guidance and advisory support • Streamline operations and train and educate staff • Mentor and upskill junior team members • Develop broader strategic and firm leadership responsibilities over time • Advise business owners on tax compliance, financial records, and related matters • Track deliverables independently and identify additional advisory opportunities • Support development of overseas-based, client-facing leadership in the Philippines

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or an advanced degree is strongly preferred • Minimum of 5 years of US tax experience • Hands-on experience preparing and reviewing Forms 1040, 1065, 1120, and 1120S; experience across all four return types is essential • Must be willing and able to prepare tax returns personally, not solely review or delegate deliverables • Strong working knowledge of QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop • Comfortable serving as primary client point of contact, managing client relationships, negotiating fees, resolving service issues, and providing tax and business advisory guidance beyond tax preparation • Ability to advise clients on LLC versus partnership structuring and entity location decisions • Able to work US Eastern-aligned hours • Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools • Familiarity with UltraTax and Onvio is preferred • Mid- to senior-level US tax professional; preference for significantly more than five years of experience, including 15–20+ years • Entrepreneurial, adaptable, and growth-oriented • Interest in a long-term commitment and broader leadership responsibilities • Experience in fund accounting, private equity, or hedge fund taxation is a nice-to-have • Big Four or large accounting firm background is a nice-to-have • Experience managing client relationships while mentoring and overseeing internal team members is a nice-to-have • CPA designation is strongly preferred