Tax Director- Real Estate

At EisnerAmper, we look for individuals who welcome new ideas, encourage innovation, and are eager to make an impact. Whether you’re starting out in your career or taking your next step as a seasoned professional, the EisnerAmper experience is one-of-a-kind. You can design a career you’ll love from top to bottom – we give you the tools you need to succeed and the autonomy to reach your goals. 

EisnerAmper has experienced significant growth and is seeking a Tax Director for our real estate team. In this role you will be involved both in new business opportunities as well as servicing existing long standing clients in a compliance/consulting role. You will also be involved in thought leadership opportunities, technology initiatives, as well as developing and mentoring staff.

What Work You Will be Responsible For:

• Responsible for monitoring and reviewing all legislative and administrative updates impacting real estate, REITS, real estate private equity, and debt fund clients, including development of related internal and external content.

• Technical expertise of partnership taxation issues with specific concentrations in §704(b)/704(c) allocations, structuring and transactional analysis, §754 elections and related basis adjustments, debt allocations and related issues, and §751 hot asset considerations.

• Transactional analysis and tax structuring related to the acquisition, restructuring, and disposition of real estate assets in fund and REIT structures.

• Coordination with the Transaction Advisory team to provide multiple services relating to real estate transactions.

• Maintain relationships with real estate focused law firms to promote EisnerAmper’s support of real estate and related transactions.

• Structuring and advising on like-kind exchange and reverse like-kind exchange focusing on tax implications with respect to boot and liabilities; experience with Delaware Statutory Trusts.

• Technical expertise with tax accounting methods applicable to real estate as an underlying asset.

• Proficiency with international and state and local implications of federal planning techniques

• Availability to internal engagement teams as a technical resource

• Assist with the review of fund documents, joint venture/lower tier partnership agreements and the tax consequences of the economic agreements (tax allocations, distribution preferences, etc.).

• Follow economic, business and real estate industry property, market, and finance trends and communicate those trends to our real estate service teams, clients, and through content on our website.

• Attend and speak at industry events.

• Respond to media inquiries for interviews and quotes on market trends.

• Develop training modules and solicit and moderate panels of industry experts to support the education of our real estate team professionals regarding market trends.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent field is required

• 10 + years of tax compliance and/or tax consulting experience

• CPA

• Master’s degree in Accounting or equivalent field

• 5 + years of supervisory experience

• Experience working with REITS

We strongly believe in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, EisnerAmper is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or protected veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under federal, state, or local law. 

About our Tax Team

As the largest service line within the firm, EisnerAmper’s Tax Group doesn’t only provide trusted and innovative tax solutions to its clients, but it creates new opportunities for employees to grow, both personally and professionally. With a range of specialties based on location and industry, employees have the flexibility to focus on the work they want to do and the autonomy to shape their careers in a fulfilling way.

A hybrid between a general tax practice and a hyper-specialized firm, our culture is based on collaboration, innovation and transparency. For us, success is defined by working together, sometimes across specialties, to provide the best tax solutions to meet our clients’ unique needs.

Tax regulations and procedures are always changing, and so are we. All EisnerAmper tax employees are empowered to challenge the status quo by thinking outside the box and bringing new ideas to the table. Because when we can identify creative ways to reduce filing turnarounds or streamline compliance work, we're able spend more time conducting impactful business advisory services for our clients.

About EisnerAmper

EisnerAmper is one of the largest accounting, tax and business advisory firms in the U.S., with nearly 4,000 employees and more than 350 partners across the world. We combine responsiveness with a long-range perspective; to help clients meet the pressing issues they face today, and position them for success tomorrow. 

Our clients are enterprises as diverse as sophisticated financial institutions and start-ups, global public firms and middle-market companies, as well as high net worth individuals, family offices, not-for-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries. We are also engaged by the attorneys, financial professionals, bankers and investors who serve these clients. 

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