Tax Experienced Associate, Transfer Pricing
Job Summary
The Tax Experienced Associate, Transfer Pricing works with a team of consulting economists to help multi-national companies correctly price their transactions between entities within their corporate group. This role assists with examining a variety of economic conditions and industry trends, evaluating clients' intercompany transactions and consulting with clients to set or substantiate prices charged between their related parties. The analysis of intercompany pricing is used to help companies with foreign and domestic tax regulations.
Job Duties
- Assists in conducting client interviews to gather information on factors that can influence how inter-company transactions are priced.
- Develops, recommends, and implements critical thinking to provide clients with tax advice on transfer pricing issues.
- Gains exposure to the development of work plans for all assigned clients.
- Learns about relevant tax law to particular clients and how that law can be appropriately applied to client facts.
- Maintains awareness of tax law and client factual developments on a daily basis.
- Identifies when research is necessary and frames issues to be researched; identifies sources of all reliable and relevant information including information tending to contradict preferred positions; accesses those sources and retrieves that information; analyzes facts and authorities; understands their weight; and reports on analysis.
- Analyzes the evaluation of industry data and financial data from the client, which are collectively used to benchmark or document appropriate intercompany pricing policies.
- Prepares project reports for clients, which include our approach, research, quantitative analysis and final results, these are used to document the extent to which a client's intercompany prices are in compliance with foreign and domestic tax regulations and present consulting advice.
- Prepares presentations that report to our client the results of analyses and recommendations.
- Writes industry overviews to provide a context for a company's current operating environment.
- Writes descriptive functional analyses that are included in transfer pricing reports and documents.
- Takes interview notes and prepares detailed summaries for team members.
- Proofreads and edits reports prior to delivering to clients.
- Writes technical memos that describe the analytical process.
- Assists with preparation of internal and external presentations, research and training materials, and knowledge-sharing communications.
- Participates in practice improvement initiatives.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, English, or other relevant field of study required.
- Advanced degree preferred.
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Exceptional research and writing skills.
- Skilled in detailed reading, proofing, and editing highly technical and descriptive material.
- Able to independently produce the initial drafts of project deliverables are written reports.
- Effective interpersonal skills and experience with presentations or public speaking.
- Able to work collaboratively in small and large groups.
- Able to communicate directly with clients in a professional and confident manner.
- Solid organizational skills especially ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details.
- Solid understanding of transfer pricing and the desire to learn more about the industry.
Pay
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Schedule
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Benefits
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About Us
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