Audit Manager

Join our dynamic team for the opportunity to work on sophisticated matters, develop your expertise, and contribute to our clients’ successes while working alongside talented legal and tax professionals. Hodgson Russ LLP, a regional law firm with 230+ attorneys in 10 offices, is seeking an Audit Manager to join our busy State & Local Tax team in our Buffalo, Rochester, or Albany office. In this role, you will be responsible for assisting with complex state and local tax audits, controversies, and administrative proceedings, together with the following responsibilities:

• Review audit files, client tax returns selected for audit, attorney notes, and related documentation to develop a thorough understanding of issues and potential exposures.
• Analyze facts and applicable tax positions to estimate potential client tax liabilities and assess audit risks.
• Identify, organize, and compile client records and supporting documents necessary to substantiate client positions during audits and appeals.
• Prepare correspondence, draft narrative statements, supporting exhibits, schedules, day-count analyses, and document requests.
• Assist in the preparation for audit meetings, conferences, mediations, and administrative hearings with attorneys and clients.
• Collaborate with clients, accountants, and other professional representatives to gather information, develop case strategies, and communicate audit requirements and expectations.
• Maintain organized files and case documentation while managing multiple assignments and deadlines.

To succeed in this role, you will need excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. The successful candidate will also be someone who thrives on a challenge, excels at organization and time management and is detail orientated. A bachelor’s degree, with a minimum of three (3) years of full-time, directly related professional experience in auditing, tax compliance, tax controversy, public accounting, government tax administration, or a similar environment.

Hodgson Russ offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefit package, including medical, dental, vision, life, long term disability, flexible spending, 401(k), Paid Time Off, pension plan, and more. At this time, the good faith estimate of the annual salary range for this position, if the successful applicant is based in Albany, Buffalo, and Rochester is $95,000 to $125,000. Where a successful applicant is slotted within this range will vary based on legitimate criteria, such as experience and skill level.

Please apply by clicking through application o. If your skills and experience match this position, a member of the human resources team will contact you directly. Thank you for your interest in Hodgson Russ opportunities.

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