Tax Senior - Business Tax Services - Quantitative Economics & Statistics

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.   The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.   EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.  

Location: Washington
 

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.  At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

 
The opportunity

Quantitative Economics and Statistics Tax (QUEST) is an interdisciplinary team of economists, statisticians, and business analysts that assists corporations, governments, and industry groups with a variety of sophisticated quantitative analyses. Our team provides clients in a wide range of industries and geographies with services related to policy-focused economic analysis, statistical sampling, survey design and implementation, and other quantitative analytics. QUEST also functions as one of EY’s internal think tanks, providing analyses of important issues to inform our clients’ business strategies. At QUEST, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a unique combination of leading economists at the forefront of public policy debates, statisticians designing cutting-edge sampling techniques, and survey specialists developing innovative approaches to collecting information from businesses and customers.

 

EY’s QUEST practice is seeking an economist to join our team of economists and statisticians in Washington, D.C. As a member of the QUEST practice you will have the combination of deep quantitative knowledge and a sophisticated understanding of business drivers to serve clients’ needs. Our people provide quantitative advisory services to private sector clients, including tax policy analyses, economic impact modeling, and reports and modeling to help develop legislative strategies and to inform policymakers. Given their extensive government experience, the team knows the types of analyses which are highly effective with policymakers and their staffs. These analyses are performed at the state and local, federal, and global levels.

 

The QUEST practice has three service lines: economic policy analysis, statistical sampling and data analytics, and surveys. As an economic policy Senior, you will provide quantitative services in QUEST’s economic policy analysis service line.

 

Your key responsibilities

• Develop and analyze tax policy proposals
• Prepare business tax competitiveness analysis
• Estimate revenue effects of tax proposals
• Model economic and fiscal impacts of specific industries or facilities
• Write accessible reports of study findings
• Work on key client issues involving policy and regulatory issues, with a focus on enhancing client strategies that align with the client's business objectives through quantitative analysis
• Develop tools to evaluate economic and fiscal implications of proposed policies and apply econometric methodologies to measure compliance with existing regulations
• Provide qualitative and quantitative analysis of policy issues
• Assisting in designing and implement quantitative and analytical software applications
• Assist in developing clear, intelligent plans and approaches to improve our clients’ tax activities
• Supervising a motivated team of staff, guaranteeing they have the skills, knowledge and opportunities to reach their full potential

 

Qualifications.

• Master's or Ph.D. in public policy / economics or other quantitative discipline
• A minimum of 3 years of related work experience
• Interest and ability to apply quanti