Assistant Manager - International Tax Services

Job description / Role

As an International Tax Senior, you'll demonstrate an understanding of increasingly complex tax concepts and effectively apply your tax knowledge to client situations, developing and delivering innovative tax planning ideas with timely, responsive services and work products that meet and/or exceed client expectations. You'll also thoroughly and accurately analyze information and prepare quality, practical and creative approaches tailored to a client's tax and economic situation, arriving at appropriate conclusions. Your remit will include managing the work of client service team members and participating in and contributing to attaining team goals.

Client responsibilities

- Participate in international tax 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 international tax team and across other services

People responsibilities

- Contribute to performance feedback for junior staff

- Contribute to people initiatives, including recruiting and retaining international tax professionals

- Maintain an educational program to develop personal skills on an ongoing basis

- Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures

Requirements

Technical skills requirements

- A bachelor's degree with strong academic credentials - accounting, business, finance or a related field desirable. MBA, Masters of Tax, JD and LLM a plus.

- Relevant professional qualification such as CTA, ADIT.

- Min four years post-qualification experience

- Experience of cross-border taxation

- Big 4 or similar consulting experience in a mature market preferred

Additional skills requirements

- Excellent written and verbal communication

- Well-developed analytical and research skills and an ability to draw conclusions from often equivocal or conflicting data

- The ability to manage a project efficiently

Who we are

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, People Advisory Services, Indirect Tax Services, International Tax Services and Transaction Tax Services.

Join our integrated global network of international tax professionals who help clients manage business tax responsibilities including managing global tax risks and meeting cross-border obligations. Our multidisciplinary teams cover everything from managing global operational changes and transactions, capitalization and repatriation issues, transfer pricing and the client’s supply chain — from forward planning, through reporting, to maintaining effective relationships with the tax authorities.

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