Manager - Tax Compliance and Reporting

Job :
Edinburgh, GB, EH3 8EX
Job Function:
Global Compl & Reporting (GCR)

Employer:

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Company: EYAt EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. Global Compliance & Reporting (GCR) is one of EY’s five tax service lines, supporting businesses with tax reporting, compliance, and risk management.

Our team helps clients navigate tax transformation and operating model changes, delivering practical and sustainable solutions across a wide range of industries.

The Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting CoE works closely with client tax functions as their primary contact, building trusted relationships and leveraging EY’s global expertise. We focus on large, multi-country compliance engagements, providing opportunities to work with complex corporate clients and continually develop our skills.

The Global Tax CoE exists to enable the execution of EY’s “All In” strategy and accelerate the Tax “Paradigm Shift”. It is where we incubate emerging solutions, operate our most complex deals and innovate through our market-leading luminaries. Through the Global Tax CoE, we are not only powering exceptional delivery, but we are also building the infrastructure to deliver on EY Tax’s ambition: to be the transformation partner of choice for clients navigating complexity, regulation, and opportunity.

The opportunity

Join our fast-growing Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting CoE as a Manager. You’ll support multi-country client engagements in tax accounting and direct tax, providing Group Tax Accounting/Reporting services under US GAAP and IFRS. In this role, you’ll contribute to process improvement and help redesign how we deliver tax compliance and reporting, ensuring efficient, high-quality outcomes for our clients. We are a team which embraces diversity and inclusion with a mix of cultures, nationalities and backgrounds.  

We believe this makes us perfectly suited to the global environment in which we work.

This is an exciting time for tax professionals as the tax landscape continues to evolve, with ongoing changes in accounting standards and regulatory frameworks. You will be at the forefront of delivering accurate and compliant tax reporting across EY’s global operations, ensuring alignment with both IFRS and US GAAP standards.

Your key responsibilities
1. Tax Accounting & Reporting Support the preparation and review of interim, quarterly, and year-end global tax provisions under IFRS and US GAAPAssist with tax reporting deliverables from controllers and tax managers across the Group Contribute to US GAAP and IFRS disclosure preparation, including reconciliation of GAAP differences

Maintain tax provision memoranda and supporting documentation

Ensure compliance with internal controls, including SOX documentation and audit processes

Key client contact, communicating with clients and building strong relationships.
2. Process Improvement & Compliance Identify and support implementation of process improvements in tax provision and compliance functions

Coordinate preparation of tax account reconciliations and related schedules

Monitor and manage the implications of new accounting standards and regulatory changes (including, but not limited to, BEPS Pillar Two)
Help standardize and embed Group Tax Reporting processes to ensure compliance with US GAAP, IFRS, and SOXContribute to continuous improvement in tax reporting processes through design, control, and operational enhancements

Managing account resourcing, budget and delivery
3. Leadership & Collaboration Support tax reporting aspects of M&A transactions, including purchase accounting and compliance

Mentor and develop junior staff on ASC 740, IAS 12, and other key tax concepts; provide performance feedback

Partner with internal tax, accounting, and finance teams, as well as external service providers

Develop and lead onshore/offshore teams for seamless client service delivery.

Ensure the highest quality standards and develop team talent at all levels

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