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Sorren

National accounting and advisory services firm

Tax Director

Full-Time
No salary listed
Expert
Bachelor's
Madison, WI, USA
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AccountingTax Accounting

About the job

Requirements
  • The candidate must have at least 10 years of experience in tax preparation.
  • The candidate must hold or be eligible for a Certified Public Accountant license.
  • The candidate must have a bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field.
  • The candidate must have expert-level command of United States tax law across federal, state, and local jurisdictions and be able to interpret nuanced legislation and guide the firm and clients through complex regulatory environments.
  • The candidate must have a proven track record leading sophisticated tax planning engagements for high-net-worth individuals, multi-entity structures, and cross-border operations, including mergers and acquisitions structuring, estate planning, and business succession.
  • The candidate must be a strategic thinker with strong financial acumen who can integrate tax strategy into broader business planning and advise clients at the ownership and executive level.
  • The candidate must have mastery of tax compliance and research technology and the ability to assess, implement, and optimize systems that improve accuracy, efficiency, and client insights.
  • The candidate must have proven leadership experience managing and scaling teams, including mentoring senior managers and future leaders and fostering accountability, growth, and technical excellence.
  • The candidate must have executive communication skills sufficient to influence C-suite clients, simplify highly technical content, and lead critical internal and external conversations.
  • The candidate must have business development experience expanding existing relationships, winning new engagements, and participating in pricing and proposal strategies aligned with firm goals.
  • The candidate must have advanced project leadership skills and the capacity to oversee multiple large-scale engagements simultaneously, allocate resources effectively, and drive profitability.
  • The candidate must contribute to internal knowledge leadership, policy development, and process improvements across the tax function.
  • The candidate must be a respected internal advisor on regulatory shifts, high-impact tax risks, and opportunities for service expansion.
  • The candidate must maintain expert-level knowledge through continual learning and professional development.
  • The candidate must commit to full-time work and flexibility beyond regular hours to meet team deadlines.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the strategic vision and execution of the tax function across complex client portfolios, including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, multi-entity groups, and cross-border businesses.
  • Oversee and ensure the quality of the most complex tax engagements from planning through compliance, focusing on accuracy, efficiency, and alignment with client objectives.
  • Serve as a primary advisor on advanced tax strategies such as mergers and acquisitions structuring, succession planning, entity optimization, and long-term tax minimization.
  • Develop and lead comprehensive engagement strategies with internal specialists in estate, state and local tax, and international matters and external advisors such as attorneys and bankers.
  • Monitor evolving tax legislation and industry developments and distill complex topics into actionable insights for clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Act as the technical authority on key client issues and translate regulatory changes into firmwide guidance, tools, and training.
  • Oversee compliance and reporting practices to ensure adherence to federal, state, and local regulations while seeking ways to maximize after-tax profits.
  • Refine tax processes, strengthen internal controls, and advance documentation and workflow tools for scalability.
  • Manage and develop a high-impact team, including senior managers and managers, through coaching, feedback, performance planning, and succession development.
  • Cultivate enduring client relationships and position the firm as a strategic partner in business and financial decision-making.
  • Collaborate across assurance, advisory, and client accounting service lines to provide holistic client value and drive cross-functional opportunities.
  • Support business development through client pitch meetings, proposal review, pricing strategy, and expansion of services within key accounts.
  • Represent Sorren in the marketplace through industry events and networking opportunities that enhance the firm's visibility and thought leadership.
  • Lead firm trainings, promote professional certifications such as Certified Public Accountant, Enrolled Agent, and Master of Science in Taxation credentials, and model excellence in client service and leadership.
  • Direct resource planning and allocation for the tax team to optimize productivity, utilization, and engagement profitability.
  • Perform other duties and take on varied responsibilities assigned by firm leadership.
  • Meet annual billable-hour and other targets supporting individual performance and overall firm productivity.

About the company

Sorren is a national accounting and advisory firm formed in 2025 through the merger of 13 independent firms, backed by private equity. It provides tax, assurance, client accounting services (CAS), and business advisory to small and middle-market businesses, nonprofits, and individuals across healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, and technology; Sorren CPAs handles attest and Sorren, Inc. delivers tax and advisory services, linking local relationships with national resources. The firm distinguishes itself by combining local market presence with the scale of a national platform and by forming partnerships with like-minded firms focused on client relationships, community involvement, and technology. Its goal is to offer trusted, local advice backed by broad capabilities to help clients grow, manage risk, and navigate complex financial needs.

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What believers are saying

  • Reuters said Sorren launched Sorren Law on September 22, 2026, widening wallet share.
  • Sorren added Alta CPA Group and Zinman on September 29, 2026, strengthening the Mid-Atlantic.
  • Sorren says FY2025 revenue reached $193.3 million, up from launch-scale $170 million.

What critics are saying

  • Accountancy-independence rules and legal ethics reviews can block cross-selling, especially after Sorren Law's launch.
  • Roll-up integration risk rises as Sorren absorbs Alta, Zinman, Connected Accounting, and Hess & Rohmer.
  • If client conflicts spike, one failed regulatory challenge can strand Sorren's law platform.

What makes Sorren unique

  • Sorren combines 13 firms under DFW Capital Partners, creating instant national scale.
  • Its lawyer-owned Sorren Law and Sorren Legal Support separate legal ownership from operations.
  • Josh Tyree's platform sells tax, advisory, and legal services through one client relationship.

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Company News

Accounting Today
Sep 29th, 2026
Sorren adds two Mid-Atlantic firms.

Sorren adds two Mid-Atlantic firms. Published September 29, 2026, 12:42 p.m. EDT Updated September 29, 2026, 4:58 p.m. EDT * Key insight: Learn how one PE-backed accounting firm is expanding its Mid-Atlantic footprint. * Expert quote: "Their deep client relationships, specialized expertise and commitment to helping organizations succeed make them outstanding additions to Sorren ..." - Josh Tyree, Sorren * Forward look: Watch for the firm's continued dealmaking activity. Sorren acquired Alta CPA Group in Annapolis, Maryland, and Zinman & Company in Southampton, Pennsylvania, expanding the Top 50 Firm's Mid-Atlantic footprint. Weaving AI into accounting practice management platforms creates an intelligence layer that delivers on AI promises to reshape the future of the... Partner Insights from Canopy Paige Hagy is a reporter at Accounting Today based in Brooklyn, New York. She was previously a breaking news reporter at Fortune Magazine. Prior, she... Read full bio

MYCPE ONE
Sep 24th, 2026
Top 50 accounting firm Sorren muscles into legal services.

Top 50 accounting firm Sorren muscles into legal services. % buffered 06:52 It is generated by AI National accounting firm Sorren has launched Sorren Law, offering a range of legal services to clients and testing the boundaries between accounting and legal sectors. Backed by private equity firm DFW Capital Partners, Sorren's rapid growth and expansion into legal services signals a shift in professional services, with less distinction between financial and legal advisory, highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary approaches in the market. For years, an accounting firm could tell a client, "That part needs to go to your attorney," and move on. That sentence is starting to age badly. Sorren, the fast-growing national accounting and advisory firm formed only last year, has launched Sorren Law, giving clients access to legal services ranging from M&A and business transactions to estate planning, asset protection, contracts and litigation. On the surface, this looks like another professional-services expansion. Look closer, and it raises a bigger question for accounting firms: Where does the CPA firm end when tax, finance, legal risk and ownership decisions increasingly arrive in the same meeting? Sorren is not the first accounting firm to test that boundary. KPMG got there earlier. Aprio followed its own route. What makes Sorren interesting is the structure it chose and how quickly a firm born from consolidation has moved beyond traditional accounting. Sorren got Big fast. Sorren barely existed as a national brand 18 months ago. In May 2025, 13 accounting and financial services firms combined to create Sorren, with backing from New York private equity firm DFW Capital Partners. At launch, the group had roughly $170 million in combined revenue, more than 1,000 professionals and 20 U.S. offices. That starting line did not stay put for long. Inside Public Accounting reports FY2025 net revenue of $193.3 million, meaning Sorren added roughly $23 million compared with the revenue associated with its original combination. The firm has also continued acquiring practices around the country. Accounting Today placed Sorren among its Top 50 firms for 2026, while Sorren now operates with more than 1,000 professionals and a growing national footprint. That context matters. Sorren Law is not a random side project from a regional CPA shop. It arrives inside a PE-backed organization already assembling scale, technology, specialized talent and client relationships. In other words, Sorren spent its first chapter building the platform. Now it is adding more things to sell through it. Why is Sorren getting into legal services? Tax, ownership, transactions, succession, estate planning and legal risk often overlap. From the client's perspective, these are rarely separate strategic questions. They are connected decisions involving money, control, liability and long-term planning. Sorren CEO Josh Tyree said legal decisions frequently connect with a client's business, financial, tax, ownership and family objectives. That is essentially the thesis behind Sorren Law. The founding legal team comes from Mansfield & Mayo, a Nevada and Idaho law firm led by Patrick Mansfield and Massey Mayo. Sorren Law initially serves Nevada, Idaho and Texas, with broader expansion planned. Its work covers corporate matters, M&A, succession, estates, trusts, tax planning, asset protection and disputes. Here is where the fine print becomes the main story. Sorren Law remains owned exclusively by lawyers. Sorren itself does not own the law firm. Instead, Sorren Legal Support, a Sorren subsidiary, provides administrative and operational services under a management arrangement. That setup gives Sorren Law access to infrastructure without simply putting a PE-backed accounting organization in direct ownership of the legal practice. That is not legal housekeeping. It is the architecture making the expansion possible. KPMG already cracked the door. Sorren is entering a path that became considerably more visible in February 2025. That month, KPMG launched KPMG Law US after receiving approval from the Arizona Supreme Court, becoming the first Big Four firm with a U.S. law firm under Arizona's Alternative Business Structure, or ABS, framework. Arizona changed its rules effective January 1, 2021, allowing approved businesses with nonlawyer owners or decision makers to provide legal services through regulated ABS entities. KPMG Law US uses that opening directly. It operates as an independently managed KPMG subsidiary and focuses heavily on technology-enabled legal services, legal operations and managed services. Importantly, regulatory conditions prevent it from providing legal services to KPMG audit clients. Aprio also launched Aprio Legal through Arizona's framework in 2025. Sorren has taken another route. Rather than relying on nonlawyer ownership under an Arizona ABS license, its law firm stays lawyer-owned while a management-services organization handles supporting operations. Different plumbing, similar destination. Is accounting becoming the New one stop shop? Accounting firms still face hard limits around audit independence, attorney ethics, conflicts and ownership rules. That means integrated legal services may work well for transactions, succession and planning, while litigation or sensitive disputes may still demand greater separation. Traditional law firms should pay attention. Accounting firms already hold recurring client relationships, tax data, financial insight, technology budgets and growing access to private capital. Sorren also has speed on its side. It grew from a roughly $170 million combination to $193.3 million in FY2025 revenue and is now adding legal services to that platform. The likely future is not every accounting firm becoming a law firm. It is more multidisciplinary firms bringing tax, advisory and legal services closer together while keeping regulatory walls intact. For CPA firms, that changes the competitive question from who owns the accounting relationship to who owns more of the client relationship. Sorren Law may be one early sign of where that model is heading. Until next time...

Going Concern
Sep 23rd, 2026
Another accounting firm is getting into the law business.

Another accounting firm is getting into the law business. Idaho-HQd and private equity-backed Sorren (IPA #49 with $193,296,588 in revenue) announced yesterday that they've launched Sorren Law, "a separately constituted and regulated professional corporation that provides legal services in accordance with the relevant laws of jurisdictions in which it operates." For now, they're serving clients in just Nevada, Idaho and Texas, with plans to expand. To be clear, Sorren Law is owned exclusively by lawyers. The founding group is Mansfield & Mayo, an established law firm. If you haven't heard of Sorren that's OK, they're relatively new and only came about last year. Perhaps you've heard of the 13 regional firms that combined like Voltron to make them: SKR+CO (Colorado), SBF (Florida), Roeser Accountancy (California), Pisenti & Brinker LLP (California), KDP (Oregon and Idaho), Harris (Idaho), Chigbrow Ryan Murata (Idaho), Acuity, Aycock & Company (Texas), JRJBF (Illinois), or KMA, BrookWeiner and SSG (Midwest)? No? None of those ring a bell? OK I dunno what to tell you then. Sorren Expands Client Services with Sorren Law [Sorren]

INSIDE Public Accounting
Aug 7th, 2026
Sorren adds two Nevada firms.

Sorren adds two Nevada firms. Updated August 7, 2026, 1:56 pm Meridian, Idaho-based Sorren (FY25 net revenue of $193.3 million) added two Reno, Nev.-based firms, Persing Professional Group (PPG) and Carefree Professional Practice Resources (CPPR), expanding the firm's presence in northern Nevada. PPG provides tax, accounting, consulting, succession planning, cash flow management and CFO advisory services to privately held businesses and their owners. The firm serves clients in health care, construction and service-related industries. CPPR is a specialized tax and accounting firm serving dental practices and professionals, providing guidance on financial, tax and operational matters specific to the dental industry. "These two firms represent exactly the kind of organizations we want to align with - deeply rooted in their communities, committed to their clients and focused on creating opportunities for their people," said Sorren CEO Craig Grooms. The additions expand Sorren's presence in northern Nevada and add capabilities in health care, professional services and business advisory.

Sorren
May 12th, 2026
Maryland-Based CPA Firm Gorfine, Schiller & Gardyn Joins Sorren, Expanding National Platform

Gorfine, Schiller & Gardyn joins Sorren, bringing 90+ years of CPA expertise to Sorren’s growing national platform.