Market reports, salary analysis and hiring commentary from the tax recruitment market.
The letters after your name on a tax job posting are doing one job, and it isn’t describing your week. They are a screening filter – a way for software and recruiters to decide whether you make the pile. That gap betw…
You can run an entire tax function and still carry a title that makes you sound like one desk in a bigger team. A Tax Manager who reports straight to the CFO, owns the provision, signs off the returns, and fields ever…
Tax might be the only profession on earth whose future hiring is published in advance. Not forecast – published. The deadlines that will create tax jobs in 2028, 2029, and 2030 are already sitting in directives, natio…
You’re scrolling “tax jobs” listings with real international tax or Pillar Two experience behind you, trying to decide where to point your next move – stay in advisory or go in-house. The answer depends less on the re…
Two people can carry the same business card that reads “Head of Tax” and share almost nothing about how they spend a Tuesday. One signs off a single-country return and spends the afternoon on planning. The other is re…
You find out about the deal after it’s structured. You hear about the new market after the product already launched there. You see the term sheet after it’s signed, when the only thing left to do is reduce the damage,…
Busy season is finally behind you, the timesheet is closed, and you’re sitting on a Sunday evening wondering whether the next round of client deadlines is really how you want to spend the next decade. Somewhere in tha…
Early in my career, I pulled an all-nighter reconciling a multinational, quarterly tax reporting pack to the cent – dozens of entities rolling into one consolidated set. When the consolidation ran and I reviewed it, t…
We pulled more than 1,000 Head of Tax profiles and measured one thing: how far people actually stay in the seat. The average came out to about 5 years. The median sat closer to 3.3. And roughly 1 in 3 sitting Heads of…
Your first dedicated tax hire is usually someone trained in direct tax. The logic is quiet but consistent: corporate tax provision hits the P&L, so it gets attention early in reporting, while indirect tax gets abs…
Most tax professionals map their careers along one axis: stay at a firm and chase partner, or go in-house and climb toward head of tax. Those are real paths. They’re also not the only ones. There’s a third: tax techno…
If you’re weighing transfer pricing as a career – as an economics or accounting graduate, a career changer, or a tax professional eyeing a specialty – you probably want more than a list of open roles. You want to know…