Assistant Manager - Tax Chat - Accounting Firm

Assistant Manager - Tax Chat

Your key responsibilities :

- Demonstrate a very high level of proficiency in tax technical knowledge relevant to U.S. individual, trust and partnership returns; demonstrate an understanding of more complex technical issues.

- Ability to sign medium complexity returns.

- Drive the tax return production process, review complex tax returns and other tax deliverables efficiently.

- Manage turnaround time of deliverables as per service level agreement.

- Establish and maintain long-term relationships with the clients and internal colleagues.

- Explore opportunities to bring more work to the GDS and to EY by consistently providing high quality work.

- Supervise day to day operations and engagement milestones with little or no manager involvement.

- Demonstrate leadership skills in developing the highest performing teams.

- Help Senior Managers and Managers with advisory and ad-hoc projects.

- Develop engagement and financial management skills by managing own and/or other's impact on project economics, including controlling costs, monitoring budget to actual differences.

- Contribute process improvement ideas leading to higher quality service delivery to the client or greater efficiency in the compliance process.

- Identify opportunities to leverage information and resources across assignments and teams.

People responsibilities :

- Facilitate teaming and manage conflicts

- Motivate and inspire team members

- Lead by example and be a role model

- Demonstrate leadership and executive presence

- Coach and mentor team members

- Contribute actively to creating a high performing team

Ideally, you'll also have :

- Effective communicate skills by being articulate, thoughtful and adapting communications to target audiences, interacting effectively in person, by phone and in writing

- Good analytical, numeric and people management skills

What we look for :

- Must be Certified EA, CPA or equivalent with active license and US PTIN.

- Deep knowledge of 1040s and 1041s

- Minimum 1 year of signing experience

- Experience with CCH and or SurePrep software helpful but not necessary

- Excellent communication skills