Assistant Manager - US Individual Tax Consultant - Big4

Job purpose:

An Assistant Manager will lead teams of staff and be responsible for client service delivery for a particular geography, area or specialization. Reporting in to Manager or Senior Manager, they will assist the management team in developing and coaching team members as well as ensuring that resources are deployed effectively on engagements.

Client responsibilities:

- Demonstrate a very high level of proficiency in tax technical knowledge relevant to U.S. individual and trust returns as well as complex high new worth technical issues impacting individuals

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

- 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

Technical skills requirements:

- Certified EA, CPA or equivalent

- Demonstrate a very high level of proficiency in tax technical knowledge relevant to U.S. individual and trust returns as well as complex high new worth technical issues impacting individuals

Additional skills requirements:

- 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