Emeia Indirect Tax Compliance Assistant Manager jobs at Ey in Hungary, Budapest

Your Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor the Payroll operation teams, ensuring a high level of service delivery and team cohesion. Act as a counselor and the primary contact for team members.
• Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with the German Payroll engagement teams to drive initiatives that enhance service delivery and operational efficiency.
• Integration: Work closely with the GDS hub teams to ensure seamless integration with the German operations, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Delivery Oversight: Review and ensure the accuracy of payroll processing services, including Build to Gross and Gross to Net, Pay processing, Post payroll validation, T&A management, and reporting, all while complying with relevant legislation.
• Training and Development: Organize training sessions and develop a knowledge management framework to enhance team capabilities and ensure alignment with German standards.
• Engagement Staffing: Strategically staff engagements to meet client needs and operational demands, ensuring the right expertise is available.
• Performance Management: Monitor and manage internal SLAs and KPIs, providing regular updates to stakeholders and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Proven experience in handling end-to-end German payroll processing, high-volume payroll, and managing multiple client payrolls.
• Strong understanding of German payroll compliance, rules, and legislation in a multi-country environment.
• Excellent relationship management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels within the organization.
• Experience in developing cross-functional teams and leading experienced professionals.
• Knowledge of technology enablers and trends around data modeling, Cloud architecture, Robotics (RPA), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Strong numeracy skills, attention to detail, and accuracy.
• Hands-on experience with ERPs like SAP, Oracle, or Workday.

To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have

• A graduate degree with 7-10 years of experience in German Payroll.
• A Payroll certification is an advantage.
• Project Management knowledge and experience.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly and concisely in English and German, both orally and in writing.

What We Offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across multiple locations – Argentina, China, India, Hungary, the Philippines, Poland, and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies, and sectors. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe.

• Continuous Learning: Develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as Defined by You: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative Leadership: Gain insights, coaching, and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and Inclusive Culture: Be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day full bookkeeping for our clients
• Participation in preparing tax returns
• Participating in year-end closing, preparing the relevant documentation
• Participation in preparing statutory financial statements
• Participation in converting IFRS and/or US GAAP data to statutory
• Prepare group reporting packages in the format required by clients
• Provide assistance to the auditors of the prepared financial statements
• Perform all tasks upon your direct superiors request
• Maintain relationship with foreign clients
• Maintain a client-oriented mindset at all times
• Establish strong relationships with your team members
• Use technology to share knowledge with team members and enhance service delivery
• Coordinating junior colleagues

Requirements

• University/college degree in finance/accounting or a chartered accountant degree
• More than 3 year of relevant work experience in full financial accounting and preparing financial statements
• Business English and Hungarianwritten and spoken
• Good knowledge of Office products (Ms Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc.)
• Positive attitude, willingness to work in a dynamic multinational environment
• Attention to details with a commitment to high quality and accuracy
• Ability to communicate effectively and efficient at all levels
• Client-oriented mindset

What we offer you

• You’ll be part of the world’s leading professional services network
• Supportive and collaborative working environment
• Exposure to a wide range of clients ensuring a varied workload
• Exceptional training and developmental opportunities
• Competitive salary and a personally tailored benefits package
  

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day full bookkeeping for our clients
• Participation in preparing tax returns
• Participating in year-end closing, preparing the relevant documentation
• Participation in preparing statutory financial statements
• Participation in converting IFRS and/or US GAAP data to statutory
• Prepare group reporting packages in the format required by clients
• Provide assistance to the auditors of the prepared financial statements
• Perform all tasks upon your direct superiors request
• Maintain relationship with foreign clients
• Maintain a client-oriented mindset at all times
• Establish strong relationships with your team members
• Use technology to share knowledge with team members and enhance service delivery

Requirements

• University/college degree in finance/accounting or a chartered accountant degree
• More than 1 year of relevant work experience in full financial accounting and preparing financial statements
• Business English and Hungarianwritten and spoken
• Good knowledge of Office products (Ms Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc.)
• Positive attitude, willingness to work in a dynamic multinational environment
• Attention to details with a commitment to high quality and accuracy
• Ability to communicate effectively and efficient at all levels
• Client-oriented mindset

What we offer you

• You’ll be part of the world’s leading professional services network
• Supportive and collaborative working environment
• Exposure to a wide range of clients ensuring a varied workload
• Exceptional training and developmental opportunities
• Competitive salary and a personally tailored benefits package
  

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Our indirect tax compliance professionals support large multinational clients with their indirect tax obligations in EMEIA and globally. Dealing with the indirect tax compliance requirements is the heart of the operations but this goes hand in hand with VAT advisory and technology support which we provide or coordinate with our specialist teams. We apply a client centric approach meaning that our professionals are organized per client, and not per country or region, to maximize the knowledge of our client’s business.

Skills and attributes for success

• Innovative & problem resolution focus with strong communication skills, both written and verbal

• Team player with project management capabilities

• Highly motivated with the ability to work both independently and in a team

• A desire to learn and develop into the role

• Ability to plan and prioritize work

• GL accounting experience is more than welcome

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior consultant, you will be working with a selection of clients where you are the assistant VAT controller for the VAT/GST compliance outsourced to EY, including:

• Act as central point of contact – liaise with your international clients and colleagues with respect to European VAT and VAT compliance

• Monitoring the quality of the indirect tax data and reports of your clients

• Review and approve indirect tax returns

• Follow up on legislative changes and business changes in order to ensure that the systems and/or processes are updated

• Identify issues and opportunities to continuously improve the VAT compliance processes

• Coordinate Indirect Tax compliance advisory, technology, controversy and audit support

• Coordinate with other VAT controllers and report to the client’s Process Owner at EY (Senior Manager or above)

• Supervise and coach junior team members

• Actively participate to the training and coaching session in your development plan to ensure continuous development of your technical knowledge

• Preparation and review of GL/BS reconciliation

• Potential short to medium term secondments to client sites based in your home country.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A Bachelor/master’s degree in economics or equivalent, potentially with a supplementary degree in fiscal matters.

• Minimum 3 years of relevant professional experience in in Indirect Tax compliance, VAT Reporting or Accountancy, including reconciliations, or Indirect Tax advisory, either in industry or with other service providers.

• Basic understanding of other compliance activities such as statutory accounting and corporate tax compliance.

• Basic understanding of ERP systems and VAT/GST reporting solutions

• Fluent in English – written and spoken, additionally, candidates with Dutch, French or German languages skills is an asset

• Excellent communication across cultures and within a virtual working environment

• GL accounting experience is a plus

What We Offer

We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling to deliver excellent results while allowing everyone to build your career without sacrificing personal priorities, providing:

• A competitive salary and benefits package, including private health insurance.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth, by access to training and development programs, coaching and mentoring as well as on-the job opportunities.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment with multicultural teams.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work with 2 days in the office per week.
• Employee wellness programs and initiatives and the opportunity to obtain the All You Can Move sport pass.
• Possibility to volunteer for meaningful initiatives to positively impact lives in the community.

Global Compliance & Reporting (GCR) – Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting CoE

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.

1. Tax Accounting & Reporting

• 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

2. Process Improvement & Compliance

• 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

3. Collaboration & Development

• 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

Skills and attributes for success

• 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

Qualifications and experience

• 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 concepts
• Good experience in tax accounting packages and strong Excel skills
• Agile to the changing client environment and able to provide quality deliverables under tight timelines
• Experience providing tax services to a portfolio of clients
• Proactive and able to identify opportunities for business development
• Team player with the ability to add value to the current team

Additional skills and attributes for success

• Ability to plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor own workload
• Experience working with teams across multiple jurisdictions
• Experience in process and technology design is beneficial but not mandatory
• Tax transformation/compliance process improvement experience is a plus
• Experience of rollout and/or implementation of tax technology is a plus
• Accounting qualification and/or Tax qualification (ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA) is a plus

What we offe

• A competitive salary and benefits package, including private health insurance.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth, by access to training and development programs, coaching and mentoring as well as on-the job opportunities.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment with multicultural teams.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work with 2 days in the office per week.
• Employee wellness programs and initiatives and the opportunity to obtain the All You Can Move sport pass.
• Possibility to volunteer for meaningful initiatives to positively impact lives in the community.

The tax accounting portfolio will be complimented by multi-country direct tax portfolio where you will be the client’s primary point of contact. You will be sharing insights from their direct tax data across countries, major legislative changes which need to be planned for and tax opportunities which could deliver value. You will be supported by a diverse team from graduates to partners, working on clients together to deliver insight and value.

It's an exciting time for tax professionals as the tax landscape continues to change, most recently the introduction of the BEPS 2.0 Pillar Two Framework is expected to have a significant impact on multinational groups globally. As part of the ETC team, you will be at the forefront of understanding the impact of these changes on our business and our clients and will have the opportunity to work within a cross- service line team to help/ lead technical discussions with internal/ external stakeholders on BEPS Pillar Two areas of focus – particularly:

• Preparation of impact assessment models and gap-fit analysis based on the client ERP and tax accounting/ reporting system
• Preparation of BEPS Pillar Two provision based on the client tax accounting reporting process at Group level
• Support with compliance solution and other business development activities
• Delivery of outsource provision and compliance services for BEPS Pillar Two

Your key responsibilities

• Managing account resourcing, budget and delivery

• Leading pursuits including BEPS Pillar Two

• Building & managing client accounts and relationships

• Developing onshore/ offshore team for BEPS Pillar Two delivery

• Identifying opportunities on new and existing clients

• Review & sign off on tax reporting packages

• Set and deliver the strategy for client engagements

• Connecting our clients to EY subject matter specialists

• Maintaining quality standards

• Developing and coaching the team

• Escalation for client and EY teams

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience in US GAAP and / or IFRS tax accounting provisions/projects

• Good understanding of BEPS Pillar Two – OECD GloBE Framework

• Corporate income tax experience (any country or countries)

• Track record of managing teams

• Strong communication skills and experience working with multi-country teams

• An ability to distil complex concepts into simple high-level messages

• Organized with an ability to deliver tax accounting in a short timeframe

• Experience coaching and developing junior staff

• Problem solving capabilities

• Ability to manage budgets and time to deliver a quality output

• Accounting or tax qualification

To qualify for the role, you must have

• ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA/CPA qualified or equivalent is a plus

• Strong tax accounting skills and working technical knowledge on ASC 740 and / or IAS 12 framework

• Good experience in tax accounting packages and good excel skills

• Agile to the changing client environment and can provide quality deliverable under a tight timeline

• Degree qualified

• Experience in corporate tax

• Working knowledge on Withholding tax process and accounting

• Experience providing tax services to a portfolio of clients

• Proactive and able to identify opportunities for business development

• Strong supervisory skills and ability to develop and coach team members

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project management skills, plan and priorities work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget

What we look for

We are looking for individuals with a transformative mindset, people who can see past what we do today and dream up what we could do tomorrow. We want people who communicate well, work as part of a team and drive their responsibilities through to completion.

What we offer

GDS is All in to shape the future with confidence, addressing today's challenges, and anticipating tomorrow's needs. EY GDS is not just reimagining the future of work—it's actively building it, ensuring agility, efficiency, and resilience in an ever-evolving world.

• A competitive salary and benefits package, including private health insurance.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth, by access to training and development programs, coaching and mentoring as well as on-the job opportunities.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment with multicultural teams.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work with 2 days in the office per week.
• Employee wellness programs and initiatives and the opportunity to obtain the All You Can Move sport pass.
• Possibility to volunteer for meaningful initiatives to positively impact lives in the community.

Senior Consultant - EMEIA Indirect Tax Compliance

Our indirect tax compliance professionals support large multinational clients with their indirect tax obligations in EMEIA and globally. Dealing with the indirect tax compliance requirements is the heart of the operations but this goes hand in hand with VAT advisory and technology support which we provide or coordinate with our specialist teams. We apply a client centric approach meaning that our professionals are organized per client, and not per country or region, to maximize the knowledge of our client’s business.

Skills and attributes for success

• Innovative & problem resolution focus with strong communication skills, both written and verbal

• Team player with project management capabilities

• Highly motivated with the ability to work both independently and in a team

• A desire to learn and develop into the role

• Ability to plan and prioritize work

• GL accounting experience is more than welcome

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior consultant, you will be working with a selection of clients where you are the assistant VAT controller for the VAT/GST compliance outsourced to EY, including:

• Act as central point of contact – liaise with your international clients and colleagues with respect to European VAT and VAT compliance

• Monitoring the quality of the indirect tax data and reports of your clients

• Review and approve indirect tax returns

• Follow up on legislative changes and business changes in order to ensure that the systems and/or processes are updated

• Identify issues and opportunities to continuously improve the VAT compliance processes

• Coordinate VAT compliance advisory, technology and audit support

• Coordinate with other VAT controllers and report to the client’s Process Owner at EY (senior manager or above)

• Supervise and coach junior team members

• Actively participate to the training and coaching session in your development plan to ensure continuous development of your technical knowledge

• Preparation and review of GL/BS reconciliation

• A Bachelor/master’s degree in economics or equivalent, potentially with a supplementary degree in fiscal matters.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant professional experience in EMEIA VAT compliance, either in industry or with other service providers.
• Basic understanding of other compliance activities such as statutory accounting and corporate tax compliance.
• Basic understanding of IT-systems and VAT/GST reporting solutions
• Fluent in English – written and spoken, additionally, candidates with Dutch, French or German languages skills is an asset
• Excellent communication across cultures and within a virtual working environment
• GL accounting experience is a plus

Apply now.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.