Financial Services - Tax Controversy - Manager

About the role

EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace and the only professional services firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services industry – the Financial Services Organization (FSO). Our focused model and bold ambition have put us at the center of the events that continue to reshape and redefine our industry, working side by side with a range of clients from our most venerable institutions to dynamic new entrants across Banking and Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management, Insurance, and Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction. Our purpose is to help build a financial services industry in which financial institutions are trusted and flourish, and the global economy is healthy, growing, and secure.

Responsibilities

• Conducting tax risk assessments to help clients end controversies by identifying and tracking evolving risks before they arise.
• Create risk assessment procedures and a global tax risk register, and implement heat maps to help identify specific pain points.
• Supporting clients in devising comprehensive risk management strategies, validating tax controls, improving documentation, and using dispute prevention tools and techniques.
• Serving as a point of contact for clients during tax audits, appeals, mediation, arbitration, and litigation.
• Utilizing tax governance activities and technology tools to support the overall tax controversy lifecycle.

Qualifications

Success in this role will be driven by your ability to manage complex projects, deliver high-quality solutions, and lead teams with broad visibility. Your analytical skills, commercial acumen, and ability to drive outcomes will set you apart. Researching tax issues to develop effective tax resolution strategies, translating complex data from a range of sources into client-ready insights and deliverables, building effective long-term relationships with our clients, understanding their unique needs to provide a tailored service, communicating complex tax issues to non-tax professionals and clients, demonstrating proven ability to guide and supervise others to deliver complex technical initiatives, with accountability for performance and results, and interpreting internal and external issues to recommend quality solutions.

Skills and Attributes

• Develops solutions to complex problems.
• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect your immediate work area and possibly the broader business function.
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Researching tax issues to develop effective tax resolution strategies.
• Translating complex data from a range of sources into client-ready insights and deliverables.
• Building effective long-term relationships with our clients, understanding their unique needs to provide a tailored service.
• Communicating complex tax issues to non-tax professionals and clients.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and deliver processes, solutions, and projects while maintaining a focus on quality and risk management.
• Experience in continuous process improvement and identification of innovative solutions through research and analysis.
• Proven ability to guide and supervise others to deliver complex technical initiatives, with accountability for performance and results.
• Depth of expertise in interpreting internal and external issues to recommend quality solutions.
• Track record of meeting performance objectives and metrics in client service, risk management, sales, and business growth.

Pay

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $103,600 to $189,900. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $124,300 to $215,800. 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. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.