EY GDS - Tax Manager

The Opportunity:

When you join the EY GDS FSO Tax team, you'll be at the heart of EY's critical mission to build a better working world by applying your knowledge, skills and experience in assisting clients in meeting their business objectives. You'll learn, grow and contribute - building new relationships and discovering the satisfaction that comes with producing high-quality valued work, and advice. You will work independently to recognize and identify problem areas and items that need to be addressed or escalated to ensure tax returns, tax research, tax accounting and tax projects are timely and accurately completed.

Your Key Responsibilities include:

Perform detailed review of any or some of the below

- Partnership tax returns (Form 1065); for any of these: operating entities, Private Equity, Hedge, Funds of Funds, blocker corporations, Regulated Insurance Companies (Mutual Funds), Banks, Insurance or Private Foundation entities.

- Knowledge about recent tax developments and changes, including Schedules K-2/K-3 reporting requirements.

- Review book-to-tax adjustments and reclasses, taxable income calculations, and investor allocations.

- Compile and evaluate moderately complex data, computations, documentations and various tax and accounting technologies.

- Identify complex tax related issues and providing recommended solutions via research and/or position development.

- Manage client relationship by ensuring data quality, evaluate team performance, resolve issues and provide suggestions on implementation plans.

- Oversee tax processes by coordinating day-to-day interactions with the team, reviewing engagement work product, driving delivery of services to meet deadlines for client deliverables, developing internal team members, and managing the functional efforts of such tax processes.

- Provides effective leadership, feedback and coaching to team members

- Build effective long-term relationships and manage workflow effectively with our clients and understand their unique needs to provide tailored services.

Skill and attributes for success

- Manage engagement deliverables and team resources to achieve timely and accurate delivery of tax compliance services while effectively managing engagement economics.

- Demonstrate deep technical excellence of Tax offerings and broaden technical skills across capabilities.

- Leadership (advising and providing direction) to others and maintaining internal network by providing such technical assistance to others within team and cross functional teams in area of expertise.

- Develop, document, and gain cross functional alignment on processes to support clients and internal teams.

- Mentor/coach team members to develop technical and leadership capabilities.

- Ability to support recruitemnt and periodic performance management activity.

To Qualify for the role, you must have:

- Graduate or postgraduate degree in finance/accounting/commerce/statistics

- 6+ years of experience in preparation, review and signingoff of 1065 form

Ideally, you'll also have:

- CPA/EA Certification

- Ability to read, interpret, and apply the tax legislation

- Good written and verbal communication skills are needed, along with team handling and leadership skills.

- Proficient using Microsoft products such as Excel, Word, and Power Point