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Business is constantly evolving, and more than ever, staying at the forefront is all about identifying and adapting to change. As a Tax Senior, you’ll see this first hand by being immersed in the evolving tax environment through preparing and auditing income tax provisions, assisting with income tax filings, consulting on planning opportunities, and coaching and developing staff on your engagement teams.

Your key responsibilities

You’ll spend your time supporting client engagements by reviewing staff work product, coordinating with clients and internal team members, managing deadlines, and tracking engagement economics. You’ll also be tasked with identifying and resolving tax technical issues, as well as sharing insights that will improve our processes and overall efficiency. In this role, you can expect to be prioritizing and handling a wide range of constantly evolving responsibilities.

Skills and attributes for success

• Providing our US and Japanese Inbound clients with domestic federal tax advice and guidance tailored to their unique needs
• Keeping up to date with ongoing trends and changes to legislation that will affect planning activities
• Supervising high-performing teams and sharing your experience and knowledge of leading-practices
• Building relationships at all levels both internally and externally, promoting a culture of collaboration
• Preparing practical recommendations to some of our clients’ most complex tax issues

To qualify for the role you must have

• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a graduate degree in Tax or Law and approximately three years of related work experience.
• Progress toward (or completion of) a valid CPA certification or licensed attorney status
• A background in tax compliance and accounting for income tax and a broad understanding of US income taxation
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Access and data mining tools
• The ability to prioritize when working on multiple projects, and the confidence to engage and integrate directly into our clients’ teams
• Fluency in Japanese
• Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A proven record in a professional services environment
• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior colleagues
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• The ability to adapt your work style to work with both internal and client team members

Your key responsibilities

The goal is to support our clients to transform their business through product management. As a Product Manager, you will work with multi-discipline feature teams including user experience experts, architects, engineers and others to define and roll out products and services for large global organizations. You will take a user-centric and data-driven approach to product development. You will advocate for the user throughout the product development lifecycle. You can break down and simplify complex processes and touchpoints to deliver exceptional experiences. You are a strategic thinker, can prioritize and define product roadmaps, manage a product backlog, make quick decisions and coordinate the team to release quality products within planned timelines. You understand modern platform structures, cloud architectures, digital platforms and enablers, and data strategy considerations. In addition, you understand and have a perspective on how product and delivery organizations are structured and operate within complex, regulated national and global companies. Outside of client engagements, you have experience with business development activities (e.g. pursuits, proposals) and practice building activities such as mentoring teams and developing/delivering trainings.

Skills and attributes for

• Strategy and Organization
  • Develop product strategies that align with business objectives and account for technology, data and experience design considerations
  • Define product organization and operating models (e.g. product taxonomy, organizational structure, funding methods, product delivery processes, governance models, decision-making models) that help our clients better allocate funding, prioritize work and drive quality and efficient delivery
  • Improve portfolio management with product metrics and OKRs that align work to business objectives and increase transparency/traceability of outcomes
• Technology Delivery
  • Drive technology delivery through defining business requirements (user stories and acceptance criteria), prioritizing backlogs, and creating and maintaining roadmaps
  • Lead cross-functional teams of designers, engineers and testers through the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from ideation through implementation and deployment
  • Advocate and operationalize cross-functional best practices such as user testing, functional and regression test automation and alignment to industry/client standards
• Product Enablement
  • Utilize prevalent product management tools (e.g. JIRA, Azure DevOps, AhA!, Productboard) to ideate and deliver technology solutions
  • Utilize product analytics software and frameworks (e.g, Pendo, amplitude, etc.) to derive insights on user behavior, product performance, and value delivery, translating findings into actionable recommendations
  • Advise on and implement best practices and standards for experience design, agile delivery, technology and data
  • Operationalize leading technologies including generative AI to improve quality and efficiency throughout the SDLC (e.g. user story definition)
• Core Consulting
  • Construct and communicate a compelling story to rally the client around potential changes and associated benefits
  • Own the desired outcomes defined in client engagements and carry through to implementation
  • Manage service delivery, identifying future sales opportunities, and supporting practice development activities.
  • Maintain long-term client relationships and networks and cultivate business development opportunities.
  • Effectively work with client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds fostering an innovative and inclusive work environment.
  • Demonstrate understanding of current technology environment and industry trends and provide recommendations for engagement and client service issues.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Accounting, Finance, or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate work experience. Alternatively, will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Accounting, Finance, or a related field and 4 years of work experience.
• Facilitate discussions with technical, design and business subject-matter resources to document requirements, establish a vision, and articulate alternatives for future state solutions across various domains and channels.
• Has set product vision, defined and managed product roadmaps, prioritized and managed the backlog and has led product launches.
• Can participate in and drive ideation sessions, standups, sprints and scrums.
• Has a specific domain knowledge and understands the dynamics impacting their product such as market trends, technology and regulatory rules.
• Experience with successfully managing projects with defined deliverables and budgets. Experience must include budgeting and managing the schedule; client relationship management; communicating strategically around key issues; conflict resolution and consensus building.
• Must have a thorough understanding of complex information systems and technology organizations and to be able to work effectively between the application, data infrastructure, operations and security architectural spaces
• Proven delivery skills including the ability to scope/size a project; staff a team with the appropriate skill set; provide subject matter direction and guidance to a team; manage communications with the project sponsors and manage the delivery of an engagement workstream.
• Requires domestic and regional travel up to 80% to serve client needs.

Together, all in, to build a better working world.

Your key responsibilities

• Performing and reviewing daily accounting transactions of clients
• Performing month end / quarter end / year end closing activities
• Maintaining reconciliations with related and third parties
• Preparing tax returns and other compliance requirements
• Preparing payrolls for clients’ employees
• Coordination and communication with shared service centers and clients’ tax teams resident abroad
• Coordination and communication with clients’ tax offices
• Following legislative changes and implementing when applicable
• Coordination with other sub-service lines of EY Tax team
• Supervising the engagement team

Skills and attributes for success

• University degree, preferably in Accounting and Finance or Business Administration
• Knowledge of Uniform Chart of Account; experienced in general accounting for 2 -7 years
• Excellent Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills and experienced in reporting
• Fluency in both written and spoken English
• Knowledge of MS NAV, SAP and Oracle accounting systems is an asset
• Knowledge e-applications such as e-invoice, e-ledger etc.
• Proven originator and team player
• Ability to work with flexible working hours
• SMMM qualification is an asset

What we offer you

Building a better working world

Integrated Risk Management (IRM) Managed Services Center Senior Analyst (Senior)

The risk landscape is continuously changing due to market volatility, geopolitical crises, wide-spread economic changes, regulatory reforms and cyber threats. As a result, organizations look to us to transform their approach to risk to turn it in a means to not only protect the enterprise but create value.

Clients retain IRM Managed Services to assist them with transforming their risk functions and providing operational support for technology solutions to provide the executive leadership with valuable insight for decision making. As an IRM professional you will belong to a globally connected team of specialists delivering services from our Dallas Service Center.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a member of our IRM service center, you will be part of a specialized team supporting the delivery of risk and technology solutions on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platforms such as Archer Technologies and Service Now.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Responsible for managing IRM service center delivery around GRC offerings
• Support ongoing maintenance and enhancement requirements for our clients
• Supervising daily activities of 8-12 service center Tier 1 or 2 Analysts
• Managing project/engagement budgets for IRM service center capabilities
• Support development of policies and procedures to guide IRM service center activities
• Assist IRM service center manager with project planning and identification of opportunities to improve delivery of services
• Communicate issues and seek support in a timely manner to eliminate roadblocks and drive collaboration, speed, innovation, and excellence
• Maintain a professional communicative relationship with IRM engagement team utilizing IRM service center support
• Provide timely, comprehensive, and accurate information in both written and verbal communications

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 2+ years of relative development experience as a System Administrator
• Archer Certified Administrator – Specialist or Archer Certified Administrator – Expert (formerly Archer Certified Professional)
• Experience with data feeds, APIs, and other integrations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Possess working knowledge of and prior experience applying risk management fundamentals
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Past experience managing and prioritizing multiple projects / work streams
• Ability to think critically and problem solve
• A team-focused mentality with the proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders
• Proactive attitude, seeking for improvement opportunities which can positively impact the business
• An ability to work under pressure while maintaining a professional image and approach
• Decision-making capabilities, with an ability to weigh the pros and cons of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one

Ideally, you’d also have

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or other related area of study preferred
• Prior military experience preferred
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret-level clearance or higher
• Past experience mentoring and developing personnel
• ServiceNow Certifications: Certified System Administrator (CSA)
• Proficiency with scripting and data integration within the ServiceNow platform
• 2+ years of supervisory experience

The role will also include responsibility for Requirements Engineering and Requirements Management. You will work with stakeholders to elicit, document, manage, and validate business and technical requirements, ensuring that they are aligned with delivery goals and remain traceable throughout the project lifecycle.

In addition to Agile delivery leadership, this role includes ownership of Quality Assurance and Test Management activities. You will be responsible for test planning, triaging defects with stakeholders, coordinating user acceptance testing (UAT), and overseeing ongoing test monitoring and reporting throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Your key responsibilities:
• Facilitate and manage Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and reviews.
• Guide Agile teams and business stakeholders through backlog creation, refinement, and prioritization.
• Collaborate closely with other product owners, scrum masters, developers, testers, and business stakeholders to ensure continuous delivery and alignment with business objectives.
• Translate business requirements into well-structured user stories and acceptance criteria that guide development and quality assurance efforts.
• Plan and coordinate all aspects of Quality Assurance, including test strategy, test planning, test case definition, and UAT coordination.
• Monitor test execution and defect resolution processes, ensuring issues are triaged, tracked, and resolved in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Provide test progress updates and quality reports to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and proactive risk management.
• Support Agile planning, estimation, and forecasting of delivery timelines and resource requirements.
• Monitor delivery progress using Agile metrics and dashboards, driving continuous improvement based on data insights.
• Coach client teams and internal stakeholders in Agile frameworks, values, and practices, adapting to various organizational maturity levels.
• Support Agile transformation initiatives by defining roadmaps, training sessions, and governance structures.
• Utilize Agile tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, and Confluence to manage projects, track progress, document requirements, and monitor test coverage.
• Contribute to internal frameworks and reusable assets that enable consistent delivery of Agile services.
• Stay current with trends in Agile delivery, quality management, and enterprise technology to guide clients through evolving best practices.

Skills and attributes for success:
• Deep understanding of Agile delivery methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of quality assurance principles and test management practices in Agile environments.
• Experience using Agile project management and test tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, TestRail, Xray, etc.).
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with a strong ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills to manage several projects or workstreams in parallel.
• Experience leading UAT cycles and coordinating testing across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Analytical mindset with a continuous improvement attitude.
• Ability to work both independently and within diverse cross-functional teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across business, delivery, and technical domains.

To qualify for the role, you must have:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Agile delivery environments across cross-functional teams.
• Practical experience managing Agile product backlogs and facilitating delivery pipelines.
• Proven experience in quality assurance and test management roles within Agile projects.
• Experience engaging directly with business and IT stakeholders to define and deliver solutions.
• Agile certifications such as Scrum Master (CSM/PSM), SAFe Agilist, PMI-ACP, or equivalent are desirable.
• ISTQB or equivalent test management certification is considered an asset.
• A fluent command of English (spoken and written).

What we offer