Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace, and they are seeking a Tax Services Manager for their Customer Tax Operations and Reporting team. The role involves leading a tax operations team, managing client interactions, and ensuring high-quality tax information reporting and compliance across various financial services sectors.
Responsibilities
- Serve as lead of tax operations team
- Responsible for actioning all team escalations related to data preparation, data aggregation, report preparation, report submission, filings and other various reporting activities for tax information reporting and transaction taxes
- Manage operations team by directing and coordinating day-to-day interactions with clients (as needed), reviewing key performance indicators by work stream, driving delivery of services to meet deadlines and client expectations, developing internal team members, and managing engagement economics
- Understanding and high-level working knowledge of requirements of various operational taxes
- Oversee operations team and provide visibility to leadership on status, issues, or situations which need to be addressed
- Manage and monitor team's work, progress reporting, workload, quality and utilization/overtime distribution across the team
- Responsible for all escalation and resolution and provide visibility to leadership
- Ensure consistent and standardized processes and procedures are implemented and in place for all tax operations and coordinate training as needed
- Support client internal audits and external audits as needed to provide supporting documentation of current processes
- Evidencing performance and introducing efficiencies via production of the appropriate KRI's and KPI's for Management
- Take responsibility for Service Quality, and manage opportunity and engagement risk for engagements
- Understand the business financials that ensure work is accomplished on budget through review of team's out-of-scope efforts and client billable hours
- Leverage the usage of standard technologies and processes while driving efficiency and quality of deliverables
- Act as a counsellor and coach and develop a team of tax professionals and actively participate in their performance management
- Travel 20% or less
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Tax, Law, or Economics
- A minimum of 8+ years of operational delivery experience
- CPA, EA, or licensed attorney
- Ability to prioritize, handle and track multiple assignments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong data analysis capabilities
- Ability to draft/design business requirements, process flow diagrams and rules matrices
- Change management, operations and process improvement experience
- Ability to identify improvement opportunities and actively engage in implementing improvements
- Demonstrated leadership skills and proven skills in developing employees
- Strong oral and written communication as well as presentation skills
- Exceptionally strong organization, process and people management skills
- Excellent trouble shooting, execution and communication (written and verbal) skills
- Proficient using Microsoft products such as Excel, Word, and Power Point
- Proficiency in tax accounting systems
- Strong operations skills, tax technical skills not a requirement
- Experience managing a production line team
Benefits
- 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.
- 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.
- Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. 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.
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