Indirect Tax - Excise Tax - Senior Manager

Location: Anywhere in Country

 

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National - Indirect Excise  Tax Senior  Manager - Open Location FY23

 

Our National Tax and EY EDGE practice is made up of a team of professionals providing specialized tax technical services to US and global clients. EDGE stands for Exceptional Delivery and Growth Engine because this team operates in a technical environment with deep process and service delivery experience that distinguishes EY in the marketplace.   

 

The opportunity

When you join EY EDGE, 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. You will learn, grow and contribute—building new relationships and discovering the satisfaction that comes with producing high-quality, valued work and advice.

 

This position supports excise tax compliance and advisory projects for clients in a wide variety of industries including Oil & Gas, Transportation, Manufacturing and Retail.  The compliance role covers all types of US Federal and State excise tax filings, inclusive of fuel tax filing obligations.  The advisory support includes activities such as due diligence reviews, structuring assistance, licensing research and consultation, controversy support, interpretation and consultation related to new legislation, and reviewing all related correspondence (e.g., memos, ruling requests, etc.) prepared by junior staff.  Examples of the different types of tax supported by this position include air transportation excise tax, alcohol and tobacco excise tax, the PCORI fee, Superfund excise tax, and firearms/ammunition excise tax.  This position also reviews work of and coaches and develops others on the team.

 

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

Ability to lead client discussions, monitor commitments and deadlines, and drive internal team to completion

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