Transfer Pricing Consultant

Job description / Role

As a Transfer Pricing Senior, you'll thoroughly and accurately analyze information, apply economic/financial knowledge to client situations and develop effective approaches to clients' financial circumstances. Subsequently, you'll take a lead in developing recommendations and implementation plans.

You'll also develop and deliver transfer pricing and economic ideas through timely and responsive services/work products and identify opportunities for transfer pricing and other special services. In addition, you'll prepare documentation, participate in advance pricing agreements (APAs) and defend transfer pricing in audits.

As a senior, you'll also work in the valuation of intangible assets, and develop practical planning services. Managing the work of client service team members and participating in, and contributing to, attaining team goals will also be essential in your role. As an influential member of the team, you'll demonstrate a commitment to quality in all aspects of your work. You'll also help to create a positive learning culture, coaching and counseling junior team members to help them develop.

Client responsibilities
- Participate in transfer pricing engagements
- Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress
- Assist in preparing reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel
- Build strong internal relationships with other members of the transfer pricing team and across other services

People responsibilities
- Contribute to performance feedback for staff
- Contribute to people initiatives, including recruiting and retaining transfer pricing professionals
- Maintain an educational program to develop personal skills on an ongoing basis
- Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures

Requirements

- An undergraduate degree, preferably with an emphasis in economics, finance or law; an advanced degree in economics, law, tax or accounting is desirable
- At least two years (with a graduate degree) or three years (with an undergraduate degree) of business or economic advisory experience (professional services experience is a plus)
- An understanding of complex transfer pricing concepts and broad exposure to transfer pricing issues is preferred
- Strong organizational, analytical and verbal/written communication skills
- Proficiency in Arabic is highly desirable

Our tax practice revolves around helping our clients effectively manage their tax obligations proactively and responsibly. As part of a global team of 35,000 tax professionals in 150 countries, you will advise clients on planning, compliance and reporting wherever the client has needs. Our unwavering commitment to quality service and our technical networks enable you to help clients reduce inefficiencies, mitigate risk and improve opportunities within their tax functions. Groups (or, as we call them – sub-service lines) within Tax include Business Tax Services, Global Compliance and Reporting, Human Capital, Indirect Tax Services, International Tax Services and Transaction Tax Services.

Join our transfer pricing professionals to help clients build, manage, document, review and defend transfer pricing policies and processes — aligning them with business strategy. Our talented team works with organizations to build the proactive, pragmatic and integrated strategies that address the tax risks of today’s businesses and help companies achieve the highest potential.

With so many offerings, you have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

About the Company

EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

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The MENA practice of EY has been operating in the region since 1923. For over 95 years, we have grown to over 7,500 people united across 21 offices and 16 countries, sharing the same values and an unwavering commitment to quality. As an organization, we continue to develop outstanding leaders who deliver exceptional services to our clients and who contribute to our communities. We are proud of our accomplishments over the years, reaffirming our position as the largest and most established professional services organization in the region