
Senior Consultant, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Tax
Baker Tilly
Irvine, CAFull-time$84–164K/yrPosted 4mo agoStill listed today
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Baker Tilly’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice supports owners and investors with transaction structuring, tax exposure analysis, due diligence, tax modeling, agreement review, and technical support. The Senior Consultant assists with engagement management, works with clients and financial partners on M&A tax activities, analyzes data, prepares reports, researches engagement issues, develops client relationships, and supervises Staff.
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Overview
Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers – New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP, trading as Baker Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
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Job Description:
Introduction to the team Our Mergers and Acquisitions practice works with owners and investors to help structure transactions, ease their tax burden and quantify tax exposures in a wide range of business transactions, including buy-side and sell-side, restructuring, taxable and tax-free transactions. We provide our clients with tax due diligence, tax structuring, quantitative tax modeling services, transaction agreement review and consultation and tax technical support.
Responsibilities:
- Assist Managers and Partners in engagement management of clients, conducting financial due diligence on middle-market companies in a variety of industries
- Work directly with client leaders and alongside private equity firms, strategic clients and investment banks to perform buy-side and sell-side due diligence as well as other M&A tax activities
- Conduct analytical reviews of data and prepare findings
- Create draft reports for management review
- Research issues that arise during the course of engagement
- Build relationships with existing clients, including involvement in networking and business development activities
- Provide both leadership and supervision to Staff
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree with a major in accounting or related field required
- Master’s degree in Taxation or JD with LLM in taxation preferred
- CPA or licensed attorney preferred. If not a CPA or licensed attorney, must meet educational requirements to obtain CPA or attorney license in state of employment upon hire
- Minimum of 2 years of related experience required preferably with a public accounting firm or law firm
- Previous experience in tax due diligence and merger and acquisitions tax consulting preferred
- Must have the ability to analyze complex business and transaction situations
- Must have the ability to work on multiple engagements simultaneously and learn new business quickly
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Strong presentation skills and marketing abilities are required
- Excellent interpersonal and verbal & written communication skills
- Must be willing and able to travel to client locations up to 50%
The pay rate range for this job position is $84,000 to $164,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of relevant factors including but not limited to applicant’s skills, prior experience, qualifications, degrees, professional certifications, work arrangements and geographic location. Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,019 open Tax Consultant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$84–164K/yr
- California median$87–192K/yr114 salary ranges
- US median$93–181K/yr916 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $124K, is 15% below the California median midpoint ($146K) — in the middle half of Tax Consultant salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 117 open Tax Consultant jobs in California and 1,019 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Tax Consultant postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 940 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 935 of the 1,019 open Tax Consultant jobs (92%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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