Financial Services - International Corporate Tax Advisory - Senior

Location: Seattle, San Francisco, Charlotte, Chicago, San Jose, New York City, Iselin

About the role

At EY, we’re dedicated to shaping your future with confidence. Join our Financial Services Organization (FSO), a separate business unit focused on the financial services industry, including Banking and Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management, Insurance, and Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction. Our purpose is to help build a trusted and flourishing financial services industry, ensuring a healthy, growing, and secure global economy.

The International Tax and Transaction Services (ITTS) practice combines Transaction Tax Advisory, International Corporate Tax Advisory, and Transfer Pricing to advise corporate and private equity clients on all aspects of their capital agenda. As a Senior in Cross Border Tax, you will tackle complex international tax matters, align multi-jurisdictional tax areas through investment modeling, and support cross-border methods, disputes, and corporate acquisitions. You’ll help foreign entities plan strategically and assess treaty, permanent establishment, and withholding implications to optimize global positions.

• Lead cross-border planning and restructuring
• Review foreign income taxation, treaty implementation, and withholding
• Provide jurisdiction-specific reporting guidance

Responsibilities

Depending on your skills and ambitions, you will manage responsibilities ranging from technical planning to strategic advisory services in a highly regulated industry. Your role will focus on maintaining EY’s reputation as a trusted advisor through sound judgment, technical excellence, and delivering value to clients.

• Define and execute engagement deliverables while tracking status, economics, resources, and budgets
• Participate daily in client work sessions as a workstream member, with opportunities to lead
• Support sales (~5–10%), assist with RFPs, and maintain engagement-economics reporting
• Operate with limited supervision and guide junior team members
• Apply broad policies and precedents to guide decisions
• Implement procedures and guidelines across workstreams
• Conduct in-depth evaluations where variable factors drive analysis

This role is location-flexible but requires regular travel to client sites. You’ll gain global exposure, daily client collaboration, and accelerated growth through high-impact delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (4-year degree) required
• Typically 2–4 years of relevant experience
• Progress toward (or completion of) a valid CPA certification or licensed attorney status
• Experience in tax due diligence, deal structuring, post-acquisition planning, and/or inbound and outbound transaction consulting with international tax research, planning, and compliance
• Experience managing budgets, projects, and people
• Knowledge of tax compliance and reporting requirements, cross-border tax implications, international tax structures, BEPS planning, and global/international tax planning
• Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation

Skills

• Identifying and answering complex domestic and international tax issues
• Providing technical tax advice and planning services across a portfolio of projects
• Building long-lasting client relationships and understanding their unique needs
• Developing knowledge of emerging trends, technologies, and practices to maintain trusted advisor status
• Managing engagement economics across the EY global network
• Delivering against locally set objectives using sound judgment and methods
• Tracking deliverables, status, and outcomes while meeting targets
• Coordinating junior work with day-to-day guidance
• Comfort operating with limited supervision and making decisions using experience and precedents

Ideal candidates will also have:

• Experience maintaining engagement-economics reports and assisting on RFP responses
• Exposure to resource planning, status tracking, and budget stewardship
• Participation in daily client sessions as a workstream member or team lead

What We Look For

We value professionals who combine rigorous analysis with practical judgment, collaborate across hybrid teams, communicate with impact, and build trusted client relationships. You’ll drive measurable outcomes in complex, multi-country environments.

Benefits

At EY, we develop future-focused skills and provide world-class experiences in a flexible, diverse, and inclusive culture. Our comprehensive compensation and benefits package rewards performance and recognizes the value you bring to the business.

• Medical and dental coverage
• Pension and 401(k) plans
• Flexible vacation policy, allowing you to decide how much time you need based on personal circumstances
• Designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, and Personal/Family Care leave to support your well-being

Pay

The base salary range for this job in most geographic locations in the US is $91,100 to $150,200. For New York City Metro Area, Washington State, and California (excluding Sacramento), the range is $109,400 to $170,600. Individual salaries are determined by factors including education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.

Schedule

Join our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Most people in external, client-serving roles are expected to work in person 60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project, or year.