Tax Manager - Indirect Tax - Sales and Use Lookback Review
About the role
Our Sales and Use Tax Lookback Review COE is a national team that leads large multi-state, sales and use tax recovery projects for EY's largest clients. This role involves building and applying knowledge on a wide range of sales and use tax recovery projects for clients in multiple industries.
Responsibilities
- Advise on indirect tax regulatory changes
- Design strategies, operating models, processes, and compliance frameworks that raise efficiency and meet requirements
- Identify opportunities for tax optimization, credits and refund recovery, exposure reduction; manage strategies, compliance, remediation, controversies, and corrective filings
- Support process review and technology transformation
- 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
- 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
- Travel required regularly for external clients
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related discipline
- 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
- Communication with impact and commercial astuteness
- Managing and delivering processes, solutions, and projects with a focus on quality and risk
- Leading or supervising professionals to deliver complex technical initiatives with accountability for results
- Interpreting internal/external issues to recommend innovative, practical solutions
- Maintaining locally set performance metrics across client service, quality, sales, solution development, and teaming
Benefits
Base salary range for this role 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.
Pay
The base salary range for this role 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
Most people in external, client serving roles 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.
What We Offer
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- A wide range of paid time off options
EY
EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and either need assistance applying online or need to request an accommodation during any part of the application process, please call 1-800-EY-HELP3, select Option 2 for candidate related inquiries, then select Option 1 for candidate queries and finally select Option 2 for candidates with an inquiry which will route you to EY’s Talent Shared Services Team (TSS) or email the TSS at ssc.customersupport@ey.com.