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Tax Advisor, International Tax and Transaction Tax Services (International Corporate Tax Advisory) (Manager) (Multiple Positions) (1644729), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Miami, FL.

Full time employment, Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Tax, Law or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate related U.S. tax experience. Alternatively, will accept a Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Tax, Law or a related field and 4 years of related U.S. tax experience.

Must have 4 years of experience in U.S. domestic and cross-border tax due diligence, deal structuring, and/or post-acquisition planning.

Must have 4 years of experience with inbound or outbound transaction consulting, including international tax research, planning and/or compliance.

Must have 4 years of experience working on client engagements, including engagement-related budgeting and billing, serving as a point of contact for clients, and escalating issues to tax partners or executives as needed.

Must have 4 years of experience in managing the planning, coordination, and execution of projects and budgets.

Must have at least one of the following: 1) active CPA certification; 2) sufficient coursework/experience requirements (as determined by state Board of Accountancy) to obtain CPA certification within one year of hire; 3) US State Bar license; or 4) sufficient coursework/experience requirements (as determined by state Board of Law Examiners) to obtain US State Bar license within one year of hire.

Requires domestic travel up to 15% to serve client needs.

Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on yourperformance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary for this job is $155,580 per year. 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 40-60% 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.

•Continuous learning:You’ll 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:We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

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Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

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.

This particular position at Ernst & Young in the United States requires the qualified candidate to be a "United States worker" as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor regulations at 20 CFR 656.3. You can review this definition at at the bottom of page 750. Please feel free to apply to other positions that do not require you to be a "U.S. worker".

Full time employment, Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Tax, Law or a related field and 2 years of work experience in Tax and/or Financial Planning. Alternatively, will accept a Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Tax, Law or related field and 1 year of work experience in Tax and/or Financial Planning.Must have 1 year of experience in a professional services firm, or mid-sized/regional to large sized/national public accounting firm.Must have 1 year of experience in 3 or more of the following: federal and state personal and trust taxation; flow through entities (S-Corps, Partnerships and LLCs); C-Corps including income tax provisions and consolidated federal and state tax returns; and/or high net-worth tax planning.Must have 1 year of experience in conducting tax law research.Must have 1 year of experience in one of the following automated tax processing systems: GoSystems, CS Planner, Excel, and/or Checkpoint SurePrep.Must have 1 year of experience delegating work to junior tax professionals and reviewing their drafts.Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on yourperformance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary for this job is $106,447.00 per year. 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 40-60% 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.

• Continuous learning: You’ll 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: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
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.

This particular position at Ernst & Young in the United States requires the qualified candidate to be a "United States worker" as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor regulations at 20 CFR 656.3. You can review this definition at at the bottom of page 750. Please feel free to apply to other positions that do not require you to be a "U.S. worker".

Our Transactions practice is constantly evolving, and it's here you'll find everything you need to grow as we do. It's all about taking on new skills and responsibilities as they arise, and making the most of our dedicated mentors and training programs. Our Transaction Tax practice helps our clients plan, execute and integrate their transaction strategies. Our services include deal structuring, due diligence, post-deal integration, internal restructuring, distressed debt and bankruptcy, tax attribute management and planning, and drafting opinions and IRS ruling requests.

Your key responsibilities

As a Staff you will be a member of the team developing and implementing transactions. You'll spend your time on a diverse array of project and clients in a highly collaborative culture. We'll look to you to develop relationships with our clients and team effectively with internal resources.

Skills and attributes for success

• Serve as a member of multiple client engagement teams, participating in due diligence and structuring engagements related to transactions for private equity and strategic corporate clients

• Perform due diligence projects to provide a thorough review of tax returns, legal documents and financial statements needed to evaluate and calculate potential tax exposures
• Review, assess, and advise clients regarding tax computations reflected in their financial models; and assist clients in the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the tax data in their financial projections for the transaction

To qualify for the role you must have

• US CPA or member of US State bar
• A bachelor's degree required
• Minimum of about 1 year of related tax experience
• Tax compliance experience preparing or reviewing business tax returns experience preferred
• Tax due diligence, deal structuring, and post-acquisition planning experience preferred

Ideally, you'll also have

• Strong writing, research, analytical, communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work in fast paced professional services environment
• Willingness and ability to travel, when necessary

Full time employment, Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Must have a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Tax, Law, Finance or related field, plus 5 years of post-bachelor’s progressive experience. Alternatively, will accept a Master’s degree in Accounting, Business, Tax, Law, Finance or related field, plus 4 years of experience.Of the required experience, must have 3 years of experience in all of the following:

Must meet one of the following criteria:

- Active CPA certification or foreign equivalent;
- CFA;
- CFE;
- Sufficient educational/experience requirements (as determined by state Board of Accountancy) to receive CPA certification within one year of hire/promotion; OR
- Member of the New York or other State Bar or foreign equivalent.Must be fluent (orally and in writing) in Spanish or Portuguese.Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.

• Continuous learning: You’ll 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: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Payroll Services Implementations Senior Manager – US Payroll Implementation Leader - Tax - National Tax – EDGE – GCR – Global Payroll Operate

Our Global Payroll Operate practice focuses on helping our clients effectively manage their global payroll needs proactively and responsibly in 157+ countries. Our quality service and technical network enable you to help clients reduce inefficiencies, mitigate risk and drive process improvement within their payroll functions. We believe that by managing clients’ payroll obligations, we can make a critical difference, and you’ll be at the heart of this mission.

Your key responsibilities

As a Payroll Services Implementations Senior Manager, you will lead our US Payroll Implementation team and our most complex global payroll implementations for large global clients. You will supervise the design, implementation and smooth transition to new global payroll operate model. You will also drive or support our effort in continuous innovation, building our next generation payroll solutions, and enhance our project delivery tools. Capabilities include medium to large payroll project management, risk control, process design and procedure documentation. Governance of payroll implementation is key, and you will lead the global country teams utilizing our one global methodology throughout our global payroll implementation life cycle to mitigate project risk.

• Lead our Americas based implementation team
• Collaborate closely with our global implementation leader and regional implementation leaders and teams
• Support the Engagement Leader to ensure efficient and effective transition and implementation of services to EY, including interfaces with client local country contacts, shared service centers, tax/finance stakeholders and related EY network.
• Execution of the global payroll implementations in a multi-country environment by clearly understanding the global payroll methodologies & requirements from clients.
• Prepare the detailed program roadmap, project plan & follow the project guidelines as well as globally defined standards and methodology.Liaison with the client and the various internal teams to ascertain project scope, parameters and timeframes, enabling the client to sign off mutually agreed project timeline, milestones and deliverables.
• Centrally manage the program/project Governance, which enable Senior Management / Leadership to understand the status and critical paths of each project, using project management skills to support & execute seamless implementation, anticipating challenges and proposing solutions.
• Process business requirementsdocuments. Develop infrastructure impact statements, feasibility studies, project charters, resource assignment RACIs, risk management plans, communications plans, and change management plans.
• Work with globalprojectmanager to establish standard end-to-end project plan / approach & ensure effective procedures are established for setup of internal and external systems, tools, and processes as part of the client transition process.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks. Report and escalate to management as needed. Manage project communications to include the sharing of team meeting minutes, project status reports, and issue/risk logs.
• Effective communication with internal teams, stakeholders, clients on various projects for smooth transition of the projects and quality delivery by conducting appropriate meetings.
• Manage multiple projects ranging from simple to complex while working with cross-functional team members throughout the cycle of the projects.
• Manage the implementation program and related country projects end-to-end including EY’s standard global tool set and other client related and required technology components from discovery, requirements gathering, global design, testing and deployment before the testing phase of in-country payroll testing and processing.
• Act as a first level mentor for team members to guide & support during the training period. Proactively participate & conduct internal trainings.
• Support business development and sales activities globally from an implementation perspective.

Skills and attributes for success

• End-to-end Payroll knowledge is a must. Thorough understanding of various activities involved in Payroll.
• Knowledge of payroll interfaces, implementation methodologies, data flows, technical aspects, accounting.
• Understanding of multi-country Payroll implementations in a shared service environment as well as in carve-out situations.
• Flexibility and good team working skills. Promotes a work environment that fosters innovation and continuous learning. Team oriented and able to be a productive member of a team.
• Strong analytical skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills along with good documentation / presentation skills.
• Proven capability to define, document and rollout procedures and processes across multiple departments and/or groups. English language is a must, other languages will round-up the profile.

• Abilityto workwith internal/external customers globally and/or on an increasing virtual/remote basis.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's degree and relevant post-graduate qualification, preferably with an emphasis in Sciences, Business or Finance.
• 15+ years - Project Management - knowledge of project management methodologies and best practices. Managing cross-functional, multi-tiered projects
• Large HR and Payroll implementation project experience by working with major technology vendors, such as ADP, Oracle, SAP, Workday and other leading technology solutions
• Strong numbers acumen, including analytical abilities and knowledge of MS Project, Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PowerBI and AI.
• Excellent managerial, organizational and verbal/written communication skills with a proactive approach to problem solving and attention to detail
• Project management experience with large HR/Payroll projects
• Candidates with active PMP certification strongly preferred
• Willingness to travel as needed

For this position, one of the following certificates/degrees is required:

1. SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP qualification from the Society for Human Resource Management®
2. Professional in Human Resources, Senior Professional in Human Resources or Global Professional in Human Resources qualification from the HR Certification Institute®
3. Certified Payroll Professional designation offered by the American Payroll Association
4. Project Management Professional (PMP)® from the Project Management Institute (PMI) or Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
5. Master's degree in business administration
6. EY Tech MBA

What we look for

We're interested in professionals with the drive to take on new responsibilities and projects. You'll need the confidence to speak up with your own creative thoughts on a wide range of areas. You'll also have the opportunity to achieve your potential by being given professional development opportunities and experiences with clients across geographies. If you're keen to play a pivotal role within a highly focused global payroll operate team, this role is for you.