The posting
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Your role.
Plante Moran's Tax Transaction Advisory Services group is seeking a Senior Manager to focus full time on tax due diligence and transaction advisory services. This role will serve middle market private equity clients, strategic buyers, sellers, and other transaction stakeholders across a broad range of industries.
Your work will include, but not be limited to:
- Lead buy-side and sell-side tax due diligence engagements, serving as the primary day-to-day tax lead with clients, targets, investment bankers, attorneys, and other transaction advisors — including leading diligence calls and status communications.
- Own the tax due diligence process by overseeing a team and providing support from kickoff through final report: scope management, information requests, management interviews, technical analysis, client communication, final deliverables, and RWI support. Monitor engagement scope, timing, risk management, and client expectations to arrive at appropriate conclusions for both the client and the firm.
- Identify, evaluate, and communicate material tax exposures, transaction risks, tax attributes, planning opportunities, and post-closing considerations in a clear, practical, and deal-focused manner.
- Advise clients on transaction structuring matters, including the tax implications of stock and asset acquisitions, taxable and tax-deferred structures, flow-through entity transactions, purchase agreement considerations, and tax modeling. Structuring work will include Section 338(h)(10) and 336(e) elections, F-reorganizations, rollover equity mechanics, and QSBS/Section 1202 considerations.
- Support clients across the private equity deal lifecycle — platform acquisitions, add-ons, carve-outs, and exits — as well as strategic buyer and seller transactions.
- Review, shape, and present tax due diligence reports and transaction-related analyses so that findings are technically accurate, appropriately supported, clearly written, and tailored to the client's investment or transaction objectives.
- Manage multiple concurrent engagements, deadlines, workstreams, and cross-functional teams while maintaining quality, responsiveness, and client service.
- Coordinate with federal, state and local, international, accounting methods, credits and incentives, and other specialists to deliver integrated transaction tax advice.
- Serve on the Advisory Team for assigned managers, seniors, and staff, providing coaching, technical development, and real-time feedback during engagements rather than reserving development conversations for year-end.
- Help develop and improve transaction advisory methodologies, report templates, workpaper standards, due diligence processes, and other tools that enhance quality, efficiency, and client value.
- Actively use and help advance the practice's AI-enabled workflow. The practice uses enterprise AI tools including Microsoft Copilot and CoCounsel today, with additional AI and data tooling expected over time. Use these tools daily in live engagements — document review and summarization, data request intake, exposure identification, report drafting support, and quality review — and help set the standard for how AI is used, reviewed, and quality-controlled across the team, including coaching managers, seniors, and staff on effective and responsible use.
- Partner with our U.S. and Mumbai teams to run integrated engagements.
- Participate in practice development activities, including proposals, internal networking, client expansion opportunities, thought leadership, and collaboration with other service groups.
- Travel as needed for client meetings, target management meetings, networking events, prospecting, proposals, industry events, and other practice development activities.
The qualifications.
- 8+ years of recent public accounting, law firm, corporate transaction tax, or tax transaction advisory experience.
- CPA, JD, or LL.M. required.
- Broad federal tax background — corporate, partnership, S corporation, tax attributes, purchase price allocation concepts, and common M&A tax issues.
- State and local tax exposure in a transaction due diligence context (income/franchise, sales and use, nexus, credits and incentives, gross receipts).
- Hands-on experience using AI tools in professional tax, legal, or transaction work — for example Microsoft Copilot, CoCounsel, Harvey, Hebbia, or comparable enterprise AI platforms. Demonstrated adoption, not awareness: ability to describe specific engagements where AI was used in the workflow, how the output was quality-reviewed, and how others were coached on responsible use.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex tax matters in plain language to non-tax stakeholders.
- Experience working with offshore or global delivery teams (India-based or otherwise) preferred, including reviewing and coaching remote colleagues.
- Experience with tax modeling, after-tax proceeds, stock vs asset, gross ups, PTET impacts, purchase agreement tax provisions, indemnity considerations, tax attribute analysis, or post-closing tax planning preferred.
- Industry-agnostic transaction experience preferred, with the ability to quickly understand different business models, industries, and deal dynamics.
- This is an exempt position; overnight travel is required as described above, and hours may exceed a standard 40-hour work week.
What makes us different?
On the surface, we’re one of the nation’s largest audit, tax, consulting, and wealth management firms. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll see what makes us different: we’re a relatively jerk-free firm (hey, nobody ‘s perfect) with a world-class culture, consistent recognition as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” and an endless array of opportunities. At Plante Moran, diversity, equity and inclusion means that all staff members have equitable and fair opportunities to succeed, in an inclusive environment, with their individual, unique identities. So, what are you waiting for? Apply now.
Plante Moran enjoys a “Workplace for Your Day” model which, simply put, means we strive for flexibility and balance while staying true to our principally in-person model. We believe that face-to-face interactions are paramount for individual and collective development, but also encourage individuals to work with their supervisor and team to determine their optimal working environment each day.
Plante Moran is committed to a diverse workplace. We strive to create a culture where each person feels accepted and valued. We believe that each person’s ultimate potential begins with first acknowledging their inherent dignity. When we can recognize — and celebrate — our many human differences, we’re able to create a workplace where all staff feel a sense of belonging and an opportunity to succeed. This allows us to attract and retain the best talent, serve clients through diverse thinking, and better represent and support the various communities in which we live and work. Plante Moran is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Plante Moran maintains a drug-free workplace.
Interested applicants must submit their resume for consideration using our applicant tracking system. Due to the high volume of interest in our positions, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, with the exception of qualified candidates who are bilingual in either Japanese and English or Chinese and English. Unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies, or similar, will not be paid a fee and become the property of Plante Moran.
The specific statements above are not intended to be all-inclusive.
We are pleased to offer eligible staff a robust benefits package. Eligibility and contribution requirements for some of these benefits vary based on the number of hours staff work per week. Highlights include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance. In addition to this, eligible staff are able to take advantage of our Flexible Time Off and various pre-determined holidays, as well as a 401(k) plan, flexible benefits plans, business-related travel expense, lodging, and meal reimbursement for business-related use. A pension plan is also available for eligible administrative and paraprofessional staff. A discretionary bonus plan is available for eligible staff. Plante Moran also offers some contingent staff positions the option to elect health insurance in addition to limited paid sick time.
The compensation range reflects the base salary we reasonably expect to pay for this position across our offices in the following regions: CO, IL, OH, and MA. Please review the position description for the applicable geographic location. Generally, experienced hires are not hired at or near the maximum salary range, as compensation decisions take into account a wide variety of factors, including but not limited to: responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. For early career roles, including campus hires, we offer standardized, market-based starting salaries among individuals within the same hiring group. This approach ensures fairness and reflects current industry benchmarks for entry-level talent.
Under Colorado’s Job Application Fairness Act, you have the right to redact, from any documents that you submit in connection with your application, information that identifies your age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. Should you wish to exercise your right to redact such information, please redact it prior to submitting documentation.
The compensation range for this role in CO, IL, OH, and MA is: $135,000.00 - $225,000.00
This application window is a good-faith estimate of the time that this posting will remain open. This deadline will be promptly updated if the deadline is extended.
