Financial Services - Global Compliance and Reporting - Real estate -Tax Services Manager-EDGE

About the role

EY's FSO EDGE Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction (RHC) practice provides comprehensive and specialized tax assistance tailored to the unique needs of our clients. You will work alongside our practice office professionals who are knowledgeable and experienced in a wide range of tax areas, processes, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Consult with clients and demonstrate professional discretion by appropriately escalating complex tax and client relationship matters to senior management and subject-matter professionals, coordinating efforts, and managing expectations about timing of response and resolution
• Deliver and manage compliance and consulting delivery services to meet deadlines for client deliverables
• Able to lead projects and work independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations
• Incumbent has specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise
• Support effective long-term client relationships by demonstrating your knowledge of the real estate, hospitality, and construction industry. Communicate with client tax liaisons, client administration teams, and client trust officers to gather required information, to share information to support informed decision-making, and obtain instruction or authorization necessary for timely, accurate production of tax information statements, tax returns and related reporting
• Manage engagement deliverables and team resources to achieve timely and accurate delivery of tax compliance services while effectively managing engagement economics
• Advise and provide direction on complex tax matters, set expectations, coordinate daily work activities, and assign tasks to staff and seniors
• Review and evaluate the work of staff members to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations
• Provide effective leadership, formal and informal feedback, and coaching to team members

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Tax, Law, or Economics
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a professional services or tax services organization in the financial services industry
• Broad exposure to real estate tax technical and transaction skills, including partnership taxation, REITs taxation and qualification, partnership allocations, tax compliance, due diligence, acquisition/disposition planning and structuring
• Experience managing budgets, people, and projects
• Excellent teaming, leadership, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Enrolled Agent (EA) or licensed attorney