Financial Services - Customer Tax Operations and Reporting - Tax Services Manager - EDGE

About the role

The opportunity is available to focus on US and global tax information reporting and withholding matters. You will work in a group environment on challenging tax information reporting and withholding engagements across all financial services sectors.

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead of tax operations team.
• Responsible for actioning all team escalations related to data preparation, data aggregation, report preparation, report submission, filings and other various reporting activities for tax information reporting and transaction taxes.
• Manage operations team by directing and coordinating day-to-day interactions with clients (as needed), reviewing key performance indicators by work stream, driving delivery of services to meet deadlines and client expectations, developing internal team members, and managing engagement economics.
• Manage and monitor team's work, progress reporting, workload, quality and utilization/overtime distribution across the team.
• Responsible for all escalation and resolution and provide visibility to leadership.
• Ensure consistent and standardized processes and procedures are implemented and in place for all tax operations and coordinate training as needed.
• Support client internal audits and external audits as needed to provide supporting documentation of current processes.
• Evidence performance and introduce efficiencies via production of the appropriate KRI's and KPI's for Management.
• Take responsibility for Service Quality, and manage opportunity and engagement risk for engagements.
• Understand the business financials that ensure work is accomplished on budget through review of team's out-of-scope efforts and client billable hours.
• Leverage the usage of standard technologies and processes while driving efficiency and quality of deliverables.
• Act as a counsellor and coach and develop a team of tax professionals and actively participate in their performance management.
• Travel 20% or less.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Tax, Law, or Economics.
  • A minimum of 8+ years of operational delivery experience.
  • CPA, EA, or licensed attorney.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong data analysis capabilities.
  • Ability to prioritize, handle and track multiple assignments.
  • Strong operations skills, tax technical skills not a requirement.
  • Experience managing a production line team.

  Skills and Attributes

  • Provide leadership (advising and providing direction) to others in financial areas of specialization while leading the coordination of daily work activities and review the most complex work of other teammates.
  • This position requires a keen focus on the performance of multiple tax operations workstreams and coordination with both domestic and international delivery team leads.
  • Works independently, with leadership guidance in only the most complex situations.
  • Has the authority to make significant choices and decisions, without specific guidance or direction from leadership.
  • Understand the business financials that ensure work is accomplished on budget through review of team's out-of-scope efforts and client billable hours.
  • Leverage the usage of standard technologies and processes while driving efficiency and quality of deliverables.
  • Act as a counsellor and coach and develop a team of tax professionals and actively participate in their performance management.
  • Strong oral and written communication as well as presentation skills.
  • Exceptionally strong organization, process and people management skills.
  • Excellent trouble shooting, execution and communication (written and verbal) skills.
  • Proficient using Microsoft products such as Excel, Word, and Power Point.

  Pay

  The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $103,100 to $188,900. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $123,800 to $214,900. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.

  Schedule

  Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.

  Benefits

  We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $103,100 to $188,900. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $123,800 to $214,900. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.

  Equal Opportunity Employer

  EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and either need assistance applying online or need to request an accommodation during any part of the application process, please call 1-800-EY-HELP3, select Option 2 for candidate related inquiries, then select Option 1 for candidate queries and finally select Option 2 for candidates with an inquiry which will route you to EY’s Talent Shared Services Team (TSS) or email the TSS at ssc.customersupport@ey.com.