Tax Manager - National Tax - Tax Performance Advisory

Tax Manager - National Tax - Tax Performance Advisory

Ernst & Young's National Tax Department (NTD) serves high-profile, national and multinational clients and is led by nationally recognized tax professionals who represent some of the firm's most senior tax talent. We provide a range of domestic and international transactional tax planning services and tax-related advisory services. National Tax includes top tax practitioners--many have held policy-making positions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and on the staffs of Congressional tax-writing committees. The combination of knowledge and experience forms the basis for National Tax's ability to help clients analyze the effects of tax law and regulations and to assist clients in determining and implementing appropriate tax planning.

Globalization. Advances in technology. Increased visibility and transparency. Greater tax complexity and sensitivity to risk. The overall environment in which the corporate tax function operates has changed. Whether a corporate tax department has tax reporting, risk management, or unique process design needs, or requires assistance with data and technology issues, Ernst & Young's global Tax Reporting and Compliance (TRC) practice can help. As a foundation to the TRC practice, we have tax professionals who work to maximize a company's investment in their tax operating model through process redesign, utilization of tax technology, improved data flows and organizational optimization.

We currently have a career opportunity for a Tax Manager in the Tax Performance Advisory (TPA) group of our TRC practice. Tax Performance Advisory works with tax departments to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations.

Responsibilities

Major areas where the group provides assistance include:

Operating Strategy and Organization Design - assist the client in identifying improvement opportunities and evaluating current tax department roles/responsibilities and skill sets.

Process and Controls Enhancement - re-design tax processes with enabling technologies to increase efficiency and reduce risk.

Data and Systems Effectiveness - work with finance and IT teams to increase tax data quantity and quality within financial systems.

Key Risks Identification, Prioritization, Monitoring and Remediation - assess tax risk and control environments inclusive of and beyond the boundaries of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404.

To qualify, candidates must have:

• a bachelor's degree and approximately 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience
• an undergraduate emphasis in accounting and at least 5 years of related work experience in tax process improvement experience or equivalent experience in business or industry preferred; or a master's degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience preferred
• CPA or EA certification
• FAS 109 experience and/or corporate income tax compliance experience preferred
• excellent managerial, leadership, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills
• relevant experience in one or more of the following specialty areas: a) tax software products such as CORPTax, TaxStreamOneSource, Fast-Tax, LongviewInsource, etc.; b) tax data and reporting requirements for ledger and consolidation systems such as SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, etc.; c) tax process and operational assessments
• ability to travel at least 50% of the time

We seek candidates with strong tax functional knowledge, demonstrated ability to team with and motivate others, and demonstrated ability to build meaningful and influential relationships with clients and colleagues.