Tax Manager - Indirect Tax - Sales and Use Lookback Review
About the role
The opportunity is to lead workstream delivery, track status and deliverables, and participate in client working sessions. You will identify opportunities for additional services, contribute to RFPs, manage engagement economics, and implement resource plans and budgets. You will guide teams, drive improvement, and recommend solutions by interpreting internal/external issues.
Responsibilities
- Lead workstream delivery, track status and deliverables, and participate in client working sessions.
- Identify opportunities for additional services, contribute to RFPs, manage engagement economics, and implement resource plans and budgets.
- Guide teams, drive improvement, and recommend solutions by interpreting internal/external issues.
- Translate regulatory changes into practical compliance and reporting solutions.
- Implement operating models and frameworks across the indirect tax lifecycle.
- Lead optimization, recovery, and exposure-reduction initiatives.
Requirements
- Manage and deliver processes, solutions, and projects with a focus on quality and risk.
- Lead or supervise professionals to deliver complex technical initiatives with accountability for results.
- Interpret internal/external issues to recommend innovative, practical solutions.
- Meet locally set performance metrics across client service, quality, sales, solution development, and teaming.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related discipline.
- An achieved CPA qualification, member of a state Bar, certification as a member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation or CMI designation.
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in a broad range of sales and use tax processes, concepts and tools.
- Experience managing budgets, people and projects.
- A proven record of excellence in a professional services or tax organization.
- Technical writing and research experience in a tax context.
- The ability to prioritize when working on multiple complex projects.
- Strong influencing skills, and the confidence to question existing processes.
- Tax legislation and impact assessment.
- Indirect tax refund and recovery review.
- Tax planning and optimization.
- Data analysis and interpretation.
- Tax compliance and reporting requirements.
- Data visualization and storytelling.
- Application and tool analysis.
- Sustainability drivers and mega trends.
- Building and managing relationships.
- Client trust and value.
- Communicating with impact.
- Emotional agility.
- Hybrid collaboration.
- Complex problem solving.
- Critical thinking.
- Driving outcomes.
- Learning agility.
- Commercial astuteness.
- Leading teams.
- Managing change.
- Negotiation and influencing.
- Sector knowledge.
- Global mindset.
Skills
- Client-facing delivery leadership.
- Disciplined quality and risk management.
- Continuous improvement.
- The ability to guide teams toward outcomes.
- Communicate with impact.
- Commercial astuteness.
Benefits
At EY, we offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $105,100 to $192,600. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $126,100 to $218,900. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
Pay
Base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $105,100 to $192,600. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $126,100 to $218,900. 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.