About the Role
When you join EY EDGE (Exceptional Delivery and Growth Engine), you’ll be at the heart of EY’s critical mission to build a better working world, applying your knowledge, skills, and experience in assisting clients in meeting their business objectives. This position leads and drives the compliance function, manages the overall engagement team (US and GDS), and supervises & evaluates the assigned analysts & seniors and their work product. It requires a deep understanding of license compliance services, reviewing completed returns for approval and submission to clients, training and development of junior staff, managing GDS, and overall project management including client interactions and engagement economics.
Responsibilities
- Participate in client-facing meetings
- Communicate engagement expectations to assigned analysts and/or seniors
- Prepare engagement contracts and agreements
- Own client communications and drive solutions, focusing on client deliverables and status against plan
- Manage to projected budget and ability to forecast budget changes
- Prepare timely billings
- Ability and willingness to sell new solutions and work
- Manage client expectations proactively to ensure satisfaction
- Build client relationships through technical and business expertise
- Manage junior staff in actively maintaining compliance calendar (EY Decisions), monitoring deadlines, raising issues to next level, pulling reports for client delivery
- Utilize EY methodologies and tools that exist to enhance service delivery
- Deal with roadblocks and issues, providing suggestions and alternatives
- Reference and interpret standards using professional judgment, identifying noncompliance while applying a balanced view of all client matters
- Consult with Senior Leadership in the Firm as necessary
- Apply Tax Quality and Independence rules to engagements
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a professional services or tax services organization
- CPA, JD, Enrolled Agent or other appropriate designation required
- Excellent organizational and verbal/written communications skills
- Effective time management skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced professional services environment
- Proficiency with computer software applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- A commitment to following through effectively on client requests
- Ability to develop knowledge of various client industries
- Strong management skills needed to lead teams, delegate appropriately, mentor, review performance and counsel employees
- High degree of efficiency and ability to design and implement improvements in various tasks/processes on engagements
- Commit to periodic travel (25%)
- Excellent research skills
- Capacity to work independently and effectively on a variety of tasks at the same time
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- The ability to adapt work style to work with both internal and client team members
- The ability to research and interpret published statutes/ordinances/guidance to determine license compliance requirements; where guidance is not clear, make judgments and conclusions based on experience and discussions with relevant jurisdiction
- The ability to resolve issues at the jurisdiction and client level
- Initiative and willingness to speak up
- Genuine desire to make things better across the business
- Ability to handle information and data from multiple sources
- Readiness to further build on professional competencies
- High-ethical standards and integrity
Skills
- License compliance services
- Client-facing communication
- Team management
- Budget management
- Forecasting
- Billing
- Sales
- Client relationship building
- Staff management
- Compliance calendar maintenance
- EY methodologies and tools
- Problem-solving
- Professional judgment
- Tax Quality and Independence rules
- Research
- Independent work
- Task management
- Analytical skills
- Attention to detail
- Adaptability
- Statute/ordinance/guidance interpretation
- Issue resolution
- Communication skills
- Information and data handling
Location
- Anywhere in Country
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Minimum 3 years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
- CPA, JD, Enrolled Agent or other appropriate designation
Salary/Compensations
- US: $78,300 to $129,100
- New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento): $93,900 to $146,700
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- Wide range of paid time off options
- Flexible vacation policy
- Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence
About the Company
- EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society, and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
- Enabled by data, AI, and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
- EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy, and transactions.
- Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network, and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
Equal Opportunity
- EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.
- EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities.
