Senior VAT Compliance Consultant

Role name and description

Tax Senior VAT

The opportunity

As a Tax Senior, you would be responsible for reviewing amended federal and state income tax returns for corporations and partnerships; developing and supervising staff, preparing more complex tax returns and assisting in client management and practice development activities.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead & Implement Clients engagements from start to finish (Planning, executing, directing and completing project)
• Strong experience in managing engagement economics
• Interpreting and complying with state and local statutes, regulations and legislations
• Proactively resolve tax-related problem and make recommendations for business and process improvements
• Act as a single point of contact to handle the engagement related activities for the Central team or Local EY representatives.
• Detailed review of amended returns and related work papers
• Assist in preparation of responses to various tax audits
• Analyze and Recommend tax strategies by researching federal, state and local taxation issues
• Gain details of Client operations, processes and business activities.
• Organize and lead the user conference calls to effectively manage the compliance.
• Drive the new technology, tools and the quality initiatives
• Comply with Ernst & Young compliance procedure

Skills and attributes for success

• Lead, supervise, train and mentor staffs and interns on the engagements
• A team-player, dedicated to exceptional client service
• Monitor the performance and create opportunities for growth and guide the counselees on enhancing the technical and non-technical skills.
• Identify the training needs and organize the trainings

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Graduate/Postgraduates preferably in Commerce
• At least 4 10 years of professional experience in State compliance or Amended state compliance, Accounts Payable / Receivable, VAT
• Excellent project management, analytical, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft office and thorough knowledge on tax applications (Corp tax, One Source and Go System etc.)
• Broad exposure to federal and state income taxation and knowledge of tax regulations
• Accounts Payable / Receivable experience
• Hands on Indirect Tax VAT or Property Tax Experience would be helpful
• Technical/Analytical expertise on the Power BI, Alteryx tools would be appreciated

Ideally, youll also have

• High level knowledge and experience of a local country Indirect Tax Compliance.
• Knowledge of Global Indirect Tax Compliance and the associated processes.

What we look for

We look for candidates with proven capabilities in driving multiple projects, with exception client management and project management experience