Tax Transaction Advisory Services Manager

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.Job Description:The Manager in Tax Transaction Advisory plays a central role in managing the day-to-day delivery of high-quality transaction-related tax services. This position is responsible for leading engagement workstreams and selected engagements, translating complex tax findings into practical client advice, and supporting the execution of the firm's national Tax Transaction Advisory strategy. The role requires strong technical judgment, disciplined project management, effective client service, and a commitment to developing team members.Key Responsibilities: * Manages multiple concurrent transaction engagement workstreams, planning and coordinating tax due diligence, structuring, and advisory services for mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings undertaken by private equity sponsors and corporate acquirers * Identifies, evaluates, and communicates tax exposures and planning opportunities, develops tax-efficient transaction alternatives, and escalates significant technical or risk matters to senior engagement leaders * Reviews tax returns, workpapers, data-room materials, transaction documentation, and team analyses; synthesizes findings and ensures conclusions are supported, accurate, and relevant to the transaction * Prepares and reviews client-ready diligence reports, technical memoranda, structuring analyses, and other engagement deliverables, including comments on tax provisions in merger and purchase agreements * Reviews tax-related assumptions and calculations within client financial models and leads quantitative and qualitative assessments of tax impacts on projected transaction outcomes * Manages day-to-day engagement economics and administration, including work plans, scope, budgets, timelines, billing support, and adherence to quality and risk management standards * Coordinates with professionals across domestic and international offices and other service lines to integrate specialist findings and deliver cohesive client solutions * Develops and maintains effective client relationships by leading routine status and diligence calls, presenting findings, managing expectations, and responding promptly to client needs * Supports proposals, pursuit activities, market initiatives, and the expansion of services with new and existing clients while coaching and developing staff and senior team members * Performs additional responsibilities as business needs requireLeadership & Supervision * Provides day-to-day supervision to staff and senior team members by allocating work, reviewing deliverables, monitoring progress, delivering timely feedback, and escalating significant performance, technical, or engagement mattersRequired Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax, or related field required * Active CPA license, U.S.-admitted attorney status, IRS Enrolled Agent (EA), or equivalent professional credential required * Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a professional services, public accounting, corporate tax, or law firm environment * At least two (2) years of direct experience in tax transaction advisory services or closely related mergers and acquisitions tax work * Demonstrated expe