Senior Director, Tax Strategy and Operations

• Partner with the Partner-in-Charge and Tax Leadership Team to execute Tax Vision 2030 and translate strategic priorities into measurable action.
• Lead complex initiatives across practices, regions, industries, service lines, and stakeholder groups.
• Help shape annual business plans, investment priorities, organizational design, resource allocation, and leadership succession strategies.
• Identify opportunities to improve growth, scalability, profitability, client experience, and organizational effectiveness.
• Advise on business strategy, enterprise leadership, and major organizational decisions.
• Build alignment across regional and national leadership teams while promoting transparency, accountability, and shared ownership.
• Facilitate collaboration among partners and leaders, resolve organizational friction, and expand best-practice and innovation sharing.
• Champion collaboration across Tax, Consulting, Audit & Assurance, and firmwide service lines to increase cross-selling and integrated client solutions.
• Support go-to-market strategies, emerging capabilities, strategic pursuits, and enterprise-first growth opportunities.
• Develop leadership expectations and coach partners on collaboration, team development, business leadership, and enterprise thinking.
• Identify and develop future leaders, support succession planning, and sponsor development programs.
• Partner on career pathways, promotion discussions, senior lateral hiring, and leadership integration.
• Strengthen execution capabilities, scalable delivery models, and continuous improvement with business operations leadership.
• Drive adoption of tools, technology, AI, automation, and operational best practices.
• Help ensure a consistent client experience and provide business-level escalation support.
• Serve as a voting member of the Tax Leadership Team and lead enterprise initiatives on its behalf.

Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of experience leading professional services organizations, business units, practice groups, or comparable complex enterprises.
• Demonstrated success driving growth, organizational transformation, business strategy, and execution in a complex matrix environment.
• Proven ability to align diverse stakeholders, build high-performing leadership teams, and lead through influence rather than positional authority.
• Strong understanding of professional services economics and operating models, with sufficient technical credibility to engage senior professionals and clients.
• Flexibility to travel across regions and work remotely while collaborating in person approximately half the time.
• Preferred: CPA, JD, LLM, MBA, MST, or a comparable professional credential.
• Experience developing future leaders and coordinating succession for critical leadership roles.
• Experience supporting integrated go-to-market strategies, cross-selling, technology adoption, AI, automation, or process improvement in professional services.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in leading professional services organizations, driving growth and organizational transformation, and executing business strategies in complex environments. Capable of aligning diverse stakeholders and developing future leaders while championing collaboration and technology adoption.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• 15+ Years Leading Professional Services Organizations
• Business Strategy Development
• Stakeholder Alignment
• Leadership Team Development
• Technology Adoption and Process Improvement

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Organizational Transformation
• Business Strategy Execution
• Professional Services Economics
• Integrated Go-To-Market Strategies
• Cross-Selling
• AI and Automation Implementation
• Succession Planning
• Resource Allocation
• Investment Prioritization
• Operational Best Practices

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Influential Leadership
• Coaching
• Transparency
• Accountability

Certifications & Qualifications

• CPA
• JD
• LLM
• MBA
• MST

Industry Keywords

• Professional Services
• Complex Matrix Environment
• Client Experience
• Leadership Integration
• Business Operations Leadership