Senior Consultant - Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting

Job description

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Global Compliance & Reporting (GCR) is one of EY’s five tax service lines, supporting businesses with tax reporting, compliance, and risk management. Our team helps clients navigate tax transformation and operating model changes, delivering practical and sustainable solutions across a wide range of industries.

The Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting CoE works closely with client tax functions as their primary contact, building trusted relationships and leveraging EY’s global expertise. We focus on large, multi-country compliance engagements, providing opportunities to work with complex corporate clients and continually develop our skills.

The Global Tax CoE exists to enable the execution of EY’s “All In” strategy and accelerate the Tax “Paradigm Shift”. It is where we incubate emerging solutions, operate our most complex deals and innovate through our market-leading luminaries.

Through the Global Tax CoE, we are not only powering exceptional delivery, but we are also building the infrastructure to deliver on EY Tax’s ambition: to be the transformation partner of choice for clients navigating complexity, regulation, and opportunity.

Join our fast-growing Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting CoE as a Senior. You’ll support multi-country client engagements in tax accounting and direct tax, assisting with Group Tax Accounting/Reporting services under US GAAP and IFRS. In this role, you’ll contribute to process improvement and help deliver efficient, high-quality outcomes for our clients.

We are a team which embraces diversity and inclusion with a mix of cultures, nationalities and backgrounds. We believe this makes us perfectly suited to the global environment in which we work.

• Assist in the preparation and review of interim, quarterly, and year-end global tax provisions under IFRS and US GAAP
• Support tax reporting deliverables received from controllers and tax managers across the Group
• Contribute to US GAAP and IFRS disclosure preparation, including reconciliation of GAAP differences
• Prepare and maintain tax provision memoranda and supporting documentation
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, including SOX documentation and audit processes

• Identify and support implementation of process improvements in tax provision and compliance functions
• Prepare tax account reconciliations and related schedules
• Helping drive efficiencies on client’s or EY’s processes, designing and implementing simple solutions to complex processes, leveraging benefits of standardization, centralization and technology
• Contribute to continuous improvement in tax reporting processes through design, control, and operational enhancements

• Assist in mentoring and developing junior staff on ASC 740, IAS 12, and other key tax concepts
• Collaborate with internal tax, accounting, and finance teams, as well as external service providers

• Broad and deep corporate tax compliance experience
• Understanding of ASC 740 and IAS 12 frameworks
• Corporate income tax experience (any country or countries)
• Strong communication skills and experience working with multi-country teams
• Ability to distil complex concepts into clear, actionable insights
• Organized and able to deliver tax accounting in a short timeframe
• Experience supporting and developing junior staff
• Problem solving capabilities and process improvement mindset
• Ability to manage time to deliver quality output

• Degree qualified
• 3+ years of experience in corporate tax and withholding tax
• Experience working in direct tax accounting, in professional services or industry (combination preferred, not essential)
• Understanding of the tax reporting process, balance sheet reconciliation process, and basic understanding of direct tax compliance review
• Good understanding of deferred tax…