Tax Services Staff - Financial Services - Tax Technology and Transformation Services 

EY is the only professional services firm with a separate business unit ('FSO') that is dedicated to the financial services marketplace. Our FSO teams have been at the forefront of every event that has reshaped and redefined the financial services industry. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve the most complex challenges in the financial services industry, come join our dynamic FSO team!  

   

The Opportunity  

 

Our FSO Tax Technology and Transformation practice will give you the opportunity to further develop your skills while assisting our financial services clients in dealing with the operational challenges that their world class tax functions are facing today. We offer a broad array of services, including tax accounting and compliance process improvement, tax sensitization of ERP systems, automation of complex hedge fund allocations, and enhancement of tax processes and/or technology to deal with ongoing legislative and regulatory changes. You will be working with clients to improve the operational effectiveness and efficiency of their tax functions and assists them to better connect with executive management.     

   

Your Key Responsibilities  

Depending on the needs of our clients and your work experience, there are many different types of projects you could be working on; identifying ways to improve operational effectiveness in tax functions, reviewing the process and controls that are in place including technology, looking at effectiveness of the various technology systems our tax clients use to increase automation and data quality throughout tax processes, assessing the overall risk to establish a proper control environment; designing and building custom tax applications. As a staff, you would be working with leadership as a part of these exciting and impactful projects.   

   

 

Skills and attributes for Success   

Strong leadership ability, attention to detail, problem-solving skills, analytical abilities Ability to work on deliverables from onshore teams (as needed) to deliver projects to time, cost and quality requirements Documenting technical and business requirements, including Identifying and prioritizing issues   Have an interest and experience in improving the performance of tax functions, the demonstrated ability to team with and motivate others, and willingness to develop meaningful and influential relationships with clients and colleagues 

 

To qualify for the role, you must have   

A master's degree and minimum 2 years of relevant work experience Exposure to the financial services industry, accounting/finance/tax, tax or finance performance improvement, tax software development and/or implementation  At least 6 months to 2 years of experience in Partnership US tax compliance.

 

Ideally, you'll also have

Experience with custom applications (e.g., MS Excel, PowerPoint, VBA, PowerBI)