EY EDGE Indirect Excise Tax Manager -- Open Location 

United States, Texas, Houston 

419685837

Your key responsibilities

You’re likely to spend your time on a diverse array of projects, responsibilities and tasks; supporting client engagements by participating in day-to-day interactions with team members, providing a quality work product and driving delivery of services to meet deadlines. You’ll spend much of your time providing lead compliance support to the engagement team, supervising & evaluating your assigned seniors & analysts and their work product, communicate with clients, provide tax technical recommendations and resolve engagement issues. You’ll be working in a highly collaborative culture, where listening to and sharing information with colleagues is an essential part of the role.

Responsibilities include

· Demonstrate an effective understanding of excise tax concepts and apply tax knowledge to client situations

· Support your team in developing and delivering quality tax planning approaches with timely and responsive services and work products that meet and/or exceed client expectations

· Assist in identifying and engaging clients in opportunities for excise tax compliance, planning, and other special services

· Prepare quality, practical approaches to the client's tax situation and arrive at appropriate conclusions

· Develop recommendations and implementation plans and make informed decisions in complex and judgmental areas

· Build technical competence by keeping up to date on trends, developments and legislation that impact our clients

· Research advanced and complex tax issues and develop practical and effective solutions

Administrative Function

· Lead and coach team members in managing engagement lifecycle and engagement economics for the practice

· Responsible for financial and economic health of managed engagement

Skills and attributes for success

· Collaborate with clients and colleagues to analyze tax issues, determine alternative methods of problem-solving and arrive at recommendations

· Apply independent and objective decision making related to tasks performed

· Decide when to ask questions or proceed further with the task at hand

· Receives direction from more senior team members and occasionally directly from PPMD

· Ability to analyze federal and state statutes and related regulations and advice; apply to current facts or issues to make conclusions and articulate to team members and clients

To qualify for the role you must have

· Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree (Accounting, Business, Finance or equivalent degree preferred)

· Minimum of 5+ years of experience in a professional services or tax services organization

· Excellent organizational and verbal/written communications skills

· Effective time management skills

· Ability to work in fast paced professional services environment

· Strong research skills, ability to navigate Westlaw, CCH, RIA, etc.

· Strong analytical skills and attention to detail

· Effective knowledge of excise tax concepts

· Computer software applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

· Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment

Ideally you’ll also have

· CPA, EA, or JD/LLM (not required)

What we look for

We’re interested in tax professionals with a genuine interest in providing outstanding services to some of the world’s most influential people. Working with people from all backgrounds, from executives and entrepreneurs to investors and families, you’ll use your experience and status as a trusted advisor to maintain and further our reputation for excellence.