Tax Principal Visa Sponsorship Jobs in Colorado
Tax principal visa sponsorship jobs in Colorado are concentrated in Denver's Big Four and regional accounting firms, with additional demand from energy companies along the Front Range and financial services firms in Boulder and Colorado Springs. Employers such as Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst & Young, and Grant Thornton have filed sponsorship history for senior tax roles in this state.
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At Wipfli, people count.
At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results.
We believe in flexibility. We focus on relationships. We encourage each individual to follow their own path.
People truly matter and they feel it. For those looking to make a difference and find a professional home, Wipfli offers a career-defining opportunity.
Wipfli is seeking an experienced International Tax Senior Manager to serve as a strategic account leader and trusted advisor to multinational companies. This role leads complex U.S. international tax engagements and broader client relationships, helping senior tax, finance, accounting, and business stakeholders navigate cross-border compliance, planning, transactions, and reporting. The Senior Manager will coordinate multidisciplinary Wipfli teams, develop Managers and other professionals, and help strengthen and grow the firm’s International Tax practice.
Responsibilities:
- Own and strategically lead a portfolio of key multinational client accounts, serving as a senior relationship contact and trusted advisor across international and related domestic tax needs.
- Develop deep knowledge of clients’ global business models, ownership structures, transactions, risk profiles, and strategic priorities to anticipate needs and deliver forward-looking guidance.
- Lead complex inbound and outbound international tax engagements with accountability for scope, technical quality, engagement economics, staffing, risk management, deadlines, and executive-level communication.
- Oversee U.S. corporate and partnership tax compliance, including Forms 1120, 1065, and 1120-F, extensions, estimated tax payments, and related elections and disclosures, as well as state and local filing requirements.
- Review complex U.S. international tax forms, computations, disclosures, and workpapers, including Forms 5471, 5472, 8858, 8865, 1118, 1042, 1042-S, 8991, 8992, and 8993, as applicable.
- Provide senior-level guidance on Subpart F, NCTI, foreign tax credits, Section 163(j), FDDEI, BEAT, Section 245A, PTEP, tax treaties, withholding, repatriation, foreign currency matters, and cross-border structuring.
- Advise senior client stakeholders on tax consequences, risks, and planning alternatives associated with global operations, investments, distributions, transactions, entity structures, and organizational changes.
- Connect international tax considerations with federal corporate tax, state and local tax, transfer pricing, ASC 740, transaction reporting, employment tax, and broader business objectives, coordinating Wipfli specialists to deliver integrated solutions.
- Resolve unusual or complex technical and engagement matters, determine when consultation or escalation is appropriate, and maintain quality-control standards across the portfolio.
- Monitor legislative, regulatory, and administrative developments and communicate actionable implications to clients and professionals across the firm.
- Lead and develop Managers, Seniors, and Associates; provide technical consultation and deliver practice-wide training and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Champion standardization, technology, and process improvements involving workpapers, templates, calculation models, review tools, data collection, automation, and scalable compliance delivery.
- Drive practice growth through expansion of existing client relationships, proposals, new business development, cross-functional collaboration, marketplace activities, and continued development of Wipfli’s international tax capabilities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance, or a related field.
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience, including significant U.S. international tax and multinational corporate tax experience.
- Demonstrated success leading complex multinational client accounts, multiple concurrent engagements, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Extensive experience reviewing complex international tax computations, forms, disclosures, technical conclusions, and supporting workpapers.
- Experience advising senior client tax and finance leaders and making technical, strategic, and commercial recommendations.
- Advanced technical research, judgment, engagement leadership, business development, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to coach and develop Managers and other tax professionals.
Preferred Qualifications:
- CPA, JD, EA, or other relevant professional credential; master’s degree in Taxation or Accounting, JD, or LLM in Taxation preferred.
- Public accounting experience with a national or large regional CPA firm serving multinational companies.
- Experience with ASC 740, transfer pricing, tax due diligence, state and local tax coordination, international M&A, or cross-border transaction support.
- Experience leading proposals, expanding client relationships, developing service plans, and coordinating multidisciplinary account teams.
- Experience with CCH Axcess, BNA, Checkpoint, international tax compliance software, automation, or advanced Excel modeling.
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Additional Details:
Wipfli is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All candidates will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Wipfli is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, interview, or participate in our recruiting process, please send us an email at hr@wipfli.com.
Wipfli values fair, transparent, and competitive compensation, considering each candidate's unique skills and experiences. The estimated base pay range for this role is $162,000 to $220,000, with offers typically not made at the maximum, allowing for future salary increases. The actual salary at the time of offer depends on business related factors like location, skills, experience, training/education, licensure, certifications, business needs, current associate pay, and relevant employment laws.
Individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, subject to participation rules and based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual and Firm performance.
Wipfli cares about our associates and offers a variety of benefits to support their well-being. Highlights include 8 health plan options (both HMO & PPO plans), dental and vision coverage, opportunity to enroll in HSA with potential Firm contribution and an Employee Assistance Program. Other benefits include firm-sponsored basic life and short and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) savings plan & profit share as well as Firm matching contribution, well-being incentive, education & certification assistance, flexible time off, family care leave, parental leave, family formation benefits, cell phone reimbursement, and travel rewards. Voluntary benefit offerings include critical illness & accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, legal, long-term care, pet insurance, ID theft protection, and supplemental life/AD&D. Eligibility for all benefits programs is dependent on annual hours expectation, position status/level and location.
“Wipfli" is the brand name under which Wipfli LLP and Wipfli Advisory LLC and its respective subsidiary entities provide professional services. Wipfli LLP and Wipfli Advisory LLC (and its respective subsidiary entities) practice in an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Wipfli LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients, and Wipfli Advisory LLC provides tax and business consulting services to its clients. Wipfli Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms. Offers of employment by “Wipfli” are made by and through Wipfli Advisory LLC.
Our commitment:
We invest in the growth of all our associates through ongoing education and career development. To learn more about how we invest in you, see our learning and development page.
We also invest in a strong work-life balance by providing benefits, such as flexible time off and wellness programs. We provide health, vision and dental insurance, generous family leave, flexible work options, 401(k) contributions and paid time off and holidays.
What you can expect:
If your resume is a fit for the position, a recruiter will reach out to you for an initial conversation so we can tell you more about Wipfli and the benefits of working here. We don’t just expect you to just answer our questions. We encourage you to ask us about Wipfli to see if we’re a good fit for you.
Employee Benefits
We also back up our mission to provide a strong work-life balance with great benefits, FTO, wellness benefits and programs to encourage a healthy lifestyle.
- Medical travel benefits: Travel benefits to give associates across the country equitable access to quality care across a broad spectrum of needs
- Family formation benefits: Maternity and paternity leave, surrogacy and adoption benefits, and fertility services benefits
- Gender-affirming care benefits: Resources and benefits to help associates receive gender identity affirming interventions and therapies
- Flexible work schedule
- Flexible time off
Locations:
Denver, Colorado
At Wipfli, people count.
At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results.
We believe in flexibility. We focus on relationships. We encourage each individual to follow their own path.
People truly matter and they feel it. For those looking to make a difference and find a professional home, Wipfli offers a career-defining opportunity.
Wipfli is seeking an experienced International Tax Senior Manager to serve as a strategic account leader and trusted advisor to multinational companies. This role leads complex U.S. international tax engagements and broader client relationships, helping senior tax, finance, accounting, and business stakeholders navigate cross-border compliance, planning, transactions, and reporting. The Senior Manager will coordinate multidisciplinary Wipfli teams, develop Managers and other professionals, and help strengthen and grow the firm’s International Tax practice.
Responsibilities:
- Own and strategically lead a portfolio of key multinational client accounts, serving as a senior relationship contact and trusted advisor across international and related domestic tax needs.
- Develop deep knowledge of clients’ global business models, ownership structures, transactions, risk profiles, and strategic priorities to anticipate needs and deliver forward-looking guidance.
- Lead complex inbound and outbound international tax engagements with accountability for scope, technical quality, engagement economics, staffing, risk management, deadlines, and executive-level communication.
- Oversee U.S. corporate and partnership tax compliance, including Forms 1120, 1065, and 1120-F, extensions, estimated tax payments, and related elections and disclosures, as well as state and local filing requirements.
- Review complex U.S. international tax forms, computations, disclosures, and workpapers, including Forms 5471, 5472, 8858, 8865, 1118, 1042, 1042-S, 8991, 8992, and 8993, as applicable.
- Provide senior-level guidance on Subpart F, NCTI, foreign tax credits, Section 163(j), FDDEI, BEAT, Section 245A, PTEP, tax treaties, withholding, repatriation, foreign currency matters, and cross-border structuring.
- Advise senior client stakeholders on tax consequences, risks, and planning alternatives associated with global operations, investments, distributions, transactions, entity structures, and organizational changes.
- Connect international tax considerations with federal corporate tax, state and local tax, transfer pricing, ASC 740, transaction reporting, employment tax, and broader business objectives, coordinating Wipfli specialists to deliver integrated solutions.
- Resolve unusual or complex technical and engagement matters, determine when consultation or escalation is appropriate, and maintain quality-control standards across the portfolio.
- Monitor legislative, regulatory, and administrative developments and communicate actionable implications to clients and professionals across the firm.
- Lead and develop Managers, Seniors, and Associates; provide technical consultation and deliver practice-wide training and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Champion standardization, technology, and process improvements involving workpapers, templates, calculation models, review tools, data collection, automation, and scalable compliance delivery.
- Drive practice growth through expansion of existing client relationships, proposals, new business development, cross-functional collaboration, marketplace activities, and continued development of Wipfli’s international tax capabilities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance, or a related field.
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience, including significant U.S. international tax and multinational corporate tax experience.
- Demonstrated success leading complex multinational client accounts, multiple concurrent engagements, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Extensive experience reviewing complex international tax computations, forms, disclosures, technical conclusions, and supporting workpapers.
- Experience advising senior client tax and finance leaders and making technical, strategic, and commercial recommendations.
- Advanced technical research, judgment, engagement leadership, business development, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to coach and develop Managers and other tax professionals.
Preferred Qualifications:
- CPA, JD, EA, or other relevant professional credential; master’s degree in Taxation or Accounting, JD, or LLM in Taxation preferred.
- Public accounting experience with a national or large regional CPA firm serving multinational companies.
- Experience with ASC 740, transfer pricing, tax due diligence, state and local tax coordination, international M&A, or cross-border transaction support.
- Experience leading proposals, expanding client relationships, developing service plans, and coordinating multidisciplinary account teams.
- Experience with CCH Axcess, BNA, Checkpoint, international tax compliance software, automation, or advanced Excel modeling.
LI-AF1 #LI-Hybrid
Additional Details:
Wipfli is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All candidates will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Wipfli is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, interview, or participate in our recruiting process, please send us an email at hr@wipfli.com.
Wipfli values fair, transparent, and competitive compensation, considering each candidate's unique skills and experiences. The estimated base pay range for this role is $162,000 to $220,000, with offers typically not made at the maximum, allowing for future salary increases. The actual salary at the time of offer depends on business related factors like location, skills, experience, training/education, licensure, certifications, business needs, current associate pay, and relevant employment laws.
Individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, subject to participation rules and based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual and Firm performance.
Wipfli cares about our associates and offers a variety of benefits to support their well-being. Highlights include 8 health plan options (both HMO & PPO plans), dental and vision coverage, opportunity to enroll in HSA with potential Firm contribution and an Employee Assistance Program. Other benefits include firm-sponsored basic life and short and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) savings plan & profit share as well as Firm matching contribution, well-being incentive, education & certification assistance, flexible time off, family care leave, parental leave, family formation benefits, cell phone reimbursement, and travel rewards. Voluntary benefit offerings include critical illness & accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, legal, long-term care, pet insurance, ID theft protection, and supplemental life/AD&D. Eligibility for all benefits programs is dependent on annual hours expectation, position status/level and location.
“Wipfli" is the brand name under which Wipfli LLP and Wipfli Advisory LLC and its respective subsidiary entities provide professional services. Wipfli LLP and Wipfli Advisory LLC (and its respective subsidiary entities) practice in an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Wipfli LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients, and Wipfli Advisory LLC provides tax and business consulting services to its clients. Wipfli Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms. Offers of employment by “Wipfli” are made by and through Wipfli Advisory LLC.
Our commitment:
We invest in the growth of all our associates through ongoing education and career development. To learn more about how we invest in you, see our learning and development page.
We also invest in a strong work-life balance by providing benefits, such as flexible time off and wellness programs. We provide health, vision and dental insurance, generous family leave, flexible work options, 401(k) contributions and paid time off and holidays.
What you can expect:
If your resume is a fit for the position, a recruiter will reach out to you for an initial conversation so we can tell you more about Wipfli and the benefits of working here. We don’t just expect you to just answer our questions. We encourage you to ask us about Wipfli to see if we’re a good fit for you.
Employee Benefits
We also back up our mission to provide a strong work-life balance with great benefits, FTO, wellness benefits and programs to encourage a healthy lifestyle.
- Medical travel benefits: Travel benefits to give associates across the country equitable access to quality care across a broad spectrum of needs
- Family formation benefits: Maternity and paternity leave, surrogacy and adoption benefits, and fertility services benefits
- Gender-affirming care benefits: Resources and benefits to help associates receive gender identity affirming interventions and therapies
- Flexible work schedule
- Flexible time off
Tax Principal Job Roles in Colorado
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Which companies sponsor visas for tax principals in Colorado?
The most active sponsors for senior tax roles in Colorado are the Big Four accounting firms, Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst & Young, and PwC, along with regional firms such as Grant Thornton and EKS&H. Large energy companies headquartered along the Front Range, including those in oil and gas, also sponsor tax principals for complex international and domestic tax work. Sponsorship activity is highest at firms with dedicated tax practices serving multinational clients.
Which visa types realistically fit tax principal roles in Colorado?
Tax principal roles typically qualify as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in accounting, taxation, or a related field, making the H-1B visa the most common path. H-1B1 visa is available to Chilean and Singaporean nationals. The E-3 visa applies to Australian nationals only. For longer-term options, EB-2 or EB-3 employment-based green cards are available through PERM labor certification. F-1 OPT can bridge the gap for recent graduates, though the H-1B visa annual cap and selection process applies to most candidates.
How to find tax principal visa sponsorship jobs in Colorado?
Migrate Mate lists Colorado employers with verified sponsorship history for senior tax roles, letting you focus on firms that have filed for positions matching your background. Because tax principal is a senior-level role, filtering by employers with consistent LCA filing history in accounting and finance is more productive than broad searches. Migrate Mate's database is searchable by city and role, so you can target Denver, Boulder, or Colorado Springs specifically without sifting through employers with no sponsorship track record.
Which cities in Colorado have the most tax principal sponsorship jobs?
Denver accounts for the large majority of tax principal sponsorship activity in Colorado, driven by the concentration of Big Four offices, regional accounting firms, and corporate headquarters along the 16th Street corridor and in the Denver Tech Center. Boulder has a smaller but active market tied to technology companies and venture-backed firms with complex tax needs. Colorado Springs sees periodic demand from defense contractors and financial services companies, though volume is lower than the Denver metro.
Are there state-specific factors that affect visa sponsorship for tax principals in Colorado?
Colorado's energy sector creates consistent demand for tax principals with expertise in oil and gas taxation, partnership structures, and cost depletion, specializations that strengthen an H-1B specialty occupation case. The state's growing technology corridor from Denver to Boulder also generates demand for international tax work tied to cross-border transactions. Colorado has no state-level visa or licensing requirement beyond CPA credentials, but firms sponsoring tax principals at the principal level generally expect candidates to hold or be eligible for CPA licensure.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored tax principal jobs in Colorado?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.