Tax Manager

Title: Tax Manager

Location: Remote, with a preference for candidates based in the Carolinas - including Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Wilmington, Greenville (SC), and surrounding markets. Occasional travel to the firm's headquarters along the South Carolina coast - less than 5 percent of the time - for initial training, periodic touch points, and key client or firm meetings.

About the Firm: A long-established, full-service CPA firm headquartered along the South Carolina coast. The firm is one of the largest and most tenured public accounting practices in its regional market, with a diversified client base.

Position Summary:
The Tax Manager will serve as a key technical and client-facing professional within the firm's tax practice. This is a hands-on role focused on the preparation and management of complex tax engagements for a diverse client base. The position is structured as a long-term, succession-oriented opportunity, with a clear path toward expanded responsibility, engagement leadership, and eventual partnership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare individual and business tax returns across a varied client base, including family groups, multi-business owners, pass-through entities, and select 1040 filings.
• Work directly with multiple shareholders on assigned engagements, supporting the timely and accurate completion of tax work.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term client relationships through proactive communication and high-quality service delivery.
• Develop technical depth in pass-through taxation, real estate-related tax matters, and multi-entity client structures.
• Collaborate with internal teams remotely through Teams, Zoom, and firm-provided communication tools.
• Grow into engagement management responsibilities over time, including signing returns and overseeing client deliverables.
• Eventually assume staff management duties, including delegating work, mentoring junior team members, and reviewing their output.
• Travel occasionally to the firm's headquarters for training, key client meetings, and internal collaboration.
  

Requirements:

• Active CPA license (non-negotiable).
• Approximately 5 or more years of public accounting experience.
• Hands-on tax preparation experience - candidate must be comfortable preparing returns personally, not solely reviewing.
• Demonstrated experience preparing both individual and business tax returns.
• Experience with pass-through entities and multi-entity client structures preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Technologically proficient, with the ability to adapt to evolving software platforms.
• Self-directed professional capable of working effectively in a remote environment.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of progressive public accounting experience.
• Candidates based in the Carolinas, particularly in or near Raleigh, Charlotte, Wilmington, or Greenville (SC).
• Experience with family group, multi-business owner, and real estate-heavy client portfolios.
• Industry exposure relevant to the firm's client base, including real estate, restaurant and hospitality groups, and medical practices.
• Experience with ProSystem fx or comparable major tax software platforms.
• Long-term interest in partnership and firm leadership.
  

Career Path: This role is designed as a long-term succession hire. There is a defined path toward engagement management and eventual partnership for the right candidate. Business development is not an immediate expectation but is anticipated to grow as the candidate progresses toward partner-level responsibility.
Work Environment & Culture:

• Fully remote work arrangement with significant daily schedule flexibility.
• Tenured staff highly value the firm's flexibility and work-life balance.
• Firm is closed on Fridays during a portion of the year (outside of tax and extension season).
• Workload follows a traditional public accounting cycle - heavier during tax season, with meaningful flexibility outside of it.
• Strong emphasis on professional autonomy, client ownership, and trust.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual's skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.
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Highspring LLC (d/b/a Vaco by Highspring) and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco by Highspring") are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by applicable law. The company is also committed to ensuring that persons who need them are provided with reasonable accommodations; if an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@vaco.com .

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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada only: to the extent the position for employment is not with Highspring or not otherwise noted as vacant above, candidate should be informed that this role is to replace a presently employed person at Vaco by Highspring's client.

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

· the individual's skill sets, experience and training;

· licensure and certification requirements;

· office location and other geographic considerations; and

· other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).