Senior Tax Manager, Transfer Pricing

Job description

Work with a Top 20 CPA and advisory firm that Accounts for Anything. Aprio has 40 U.S. office locations, as well as international office locations and more than 3,200 team members that speak 60+ languages across the globe. By bringing together proven expertise, deep understanding, and strategic foresight for fast-growing industries, Aprio ensures clients are prepared for wherever life or business may take them. Discover a top-rated culture, vast growth opportunities and your next big career move with Aprio. **Build relationships. Lead engagements. Shape a growing transfer pricing practice.** Aprio is seeking an experienced **Senior Tax Manager** to play a pivotal role in our growing Transfer Pricing practice. This highly visible, client-facing position is ideal for a seasoned transfer pricing professional who thrives at the intersection of technical excellence, client advisory, and team leadership. You'll lead complex transfer pricing engagements from strategy through delivery, serve as a trusted advisor to clients, and help shape solutions across a broad range of industries. Beyond the technical work, you'll build strong client relationships, mentor developing professionals, and act as a key thought partner to practice leadership. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact, influence the direction of engagements, and help scale a dynamic and growing practice. ### What You'll Do - Lead transfer pricing engagements from planning through final delivery across a diverse client and industry portfolio. - Develop and guide the transfer pricing approach based on each client’s facts, intercompany transactions, operational structure, and business objectives. - Prepare and review transfer pricing studies, documentation, local files, master files, and related technical deliverables. - Review benchmarking and economic analyses, including comparable data sets and arm’s-length ranges. - Analyze intercompany transactions involving areas such as royalties, services, management fees, and transfers between related entities. - Apply strong knowledge of U.S. transfer pricing regulations while incorporating relevant OECD transfer pricing guidelines. - Lead client calls, explain technical concepts clearly, identify missing information, and manage financial and operational information requests. - Respond to technical client questions and help clients navigate complex transfer pricing considerations. - Direct project teams, assign work, review deliverables, and provide technical guidance and meaningful feedback to senior associates. - Perform higher-level and final-quality reviews to ensure deliverables are accurate, technically sound, timely, and ready for client delivery. - Manage multiple engagements, priorities, deadlines, budgets, workflow, billing, and overall project execution. - Collaborate with partners and practice leaders on engagement strategy, technical decisions, client opportunities, and the continued growth of the transfer pricing function. ### What We're Looking For - Approximately 10 or more years of progressive transfer pricing experience within public accounting, professional services, consulting, or a comparable environment. - Demonstrated experience independently leading U.S. transfer pricing engagements and owning projects through final delivery. - Strong technical knowledge of U.S. transfer pricing regulations and familiarity with OECD transfer pricing guidelines. - Experience preparing and reviewing transfer pricing documentation, studies, benchmarking analyses, local files, and/or master files. - Ability to assess complex client fact patterns, ask thoughtful questions, and determine the financial, operational, and technical information required. - Experience leading project teams and providing direction, review, coaching, and technical support to developing professionals. - Strong client communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts in a clear, practical manner. - A proactive and highly organized approach to client follow-up, project tracking, deadlines, and deliverables. - Ability to manage a high volume of concurrent engagements while maintaining quality, responsiveness, and attention to detail. - Broad industry exposure and the ability to adapt transfer pricing knowledge to different business models and transactions. - Bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, accounting, taxation, or a related field. - CPA, JD, LLM, or enrolled agent credential is valued but not required.