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

About the role

EY's Financial Services EY EDGE practice, part of the FSO, provides comprehensive and specialized tax assistance tailored to the unique needs of clients in the real estate, hospitality, and construction industries. This role involves delivering and managing tax compliance and consulting work for clients, recognizing and identifying problem areas, and ensuring timely and accurate completion of tax returns and other tax projects.

Responsibilities

• Consult with clients and escalate 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.
• Lead projects and work independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations.
• Support effective long-term client relationships by demonstrating 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, 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.
• Advises and provides direction on complex tax matters, sets expectations, coordinates daily work activities, and assigns tasks to staff and seniors.
• Reviews and evaluates the work of staff members to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations.
• Provides effective leadership, formal and informal feedback, and coaching to team members.

Requirements

• 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.

Skills and Attributes

• Ability to recognize and identify problem areas that need to be addressed or escalated to ensure tax returns, tax research, tax accounting and other tax projects are timely and accurately completed.
• Experience presenting in client conversations regarding complex or difficult topics.
• Ability to break down complex tax projects into manageable components, analyze relevant information, and formulate client-centric solutions that comply with relevant laws and regulations.
• Experience managing multiple work assignments, team members, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Ability to lead projects and work independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations.
• Knowledge of the real estate, hospitality, and construction industry.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in real estate tax technical and transaction skills.
• Ability to manage budgets, people, and projects.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor a team.

Pay

The base salary range for this role in the US is $104,600 to $191,600. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State, and California (excluding Sacramento) is $125,400 to $217,800. Individual salaries within these 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. Employees are also granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support their physical, financial, and emotional well-being.