EY Law - Entity Compliance Governance - Manager - FY26 -HDG #1561

Location: New York City, Hartford, Hoboken, Iselin, Jerico, Stamford, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Charlotte 

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EY Law – Entity Compliance Governance – Manager

Businesses face continuing challenges to adapt to increased resource and cost pressures due to accelerating regulatory complexity and the need to better leverage technology and data. EY Law serves high-profile, national and multinational clients. EY Law’s Entity Compliance and Governance (“ECG”) practice is focused on helping clients effectively manage statutory corporate secretarial compliance and ad routine compliance obligations proactively and responsibly. Our quality service and technical network enable you to help clients reduce inefficiencies, mitigate risk and drive process improvement within their legal function.  ECG is a component of EY’s larger Legal Managed Services practice.   

The opportunity

We currently have a career opportunity for a Manager in our ECG practice. Our market-leading approach combines extensive local expertise and project management experience with standard global compliance methodology providing clients an integrated service that unlocks the potential of the compliance and reporting function across the entire governance process. Mentored by nationally recognized professionals (including the firm’s most senior talent), you’ll be a trusted business advisor by delivering on our promises to our stakeholders - and play a critical role in building a better working world.

At EY, you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued. We offer a flexible career progression model that allows for a variety of challenging opportunities throughout your career. We provide unparalleled coaching, mentoring, and career development programs; global opportunities; and state of the art technology-driven methodologies to help you provide quality service to our clients.

Key responsibilities

ECG assists in design, implementation and operation of global entity compliance and governance processes for our clients’ legal departments. Our capabilities include implementation of centrally managed global outsourcing/co-sourcing models that provide clients with greater control and visibility over entity compliance and governance activities, access to global team members with expertise (tax, finance, payroll, legal, corporate governance, tax technology and data analytics), and development of new operating models to address new markets entry, finance transformation initiatives integration, and implementation of shared service centers.  You’ll assist in the migration of legal entity reporting and governance compliance processes from local countries to the centers, validation and governance utilizing one global platform to track the end-to-end process and provide subsidiary governance throughout legal-entity life cycle to mitigate risk and increase corporate transparency.

In addition: generate an inventory legal statutory compliance requirements, potential risk areas assessments, and develop operating blueprints to implement effective management and visibility over the global compliance and reporting function and help leverage big data and data analytics to align the local record-to-report process and global tax accounting, compliance, controversy and planning. As a Manager, you’ll lead engagements that span 100+ countries with local teams of 500+ people.

Skills and attributes for success

• Supporting new client opportunities: develop proposals and participate in oral presentations; provide high-quality services/work products; build relationships with clients understanding their unique needs to provide a tailored service

• Build technical competence: keep updated on global trends, developments and regulations and apply them
• Understand EY methodologies/tools to enhance service delivery, challenge current procedures to find new approaches
• Managing, coaching and developing a team of junior ECG professionals
• Desire to manage book of business and increase revenue through winning new business and expanding current client opportunities
• Strong project management skills and experience managing client engagements

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, supported by significant tax or legal experience; JD/LLM preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in professional services organization, law firm or alternative legal services organization

• Broad exposure to corporate secretarial, statutory reporting, subsidiary governance, corporate law, or other related compliance activities

• Strong analytical skills, interpersonal, and written/verbal communication skills; problem-solving ability and attention to detail
• U.S. corporate secretarial experience with annual and routine compliance

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Client-facing exposure in an engagement management or project management role
• Experience supporting new business opportunities

• U.S. corporate secretarial experience with annual and routine corporate compliance
• Experience with legal entity management systems and related technology

What we look for

We are seeking to identify high-potential Managers to deliver exceptional client service and enable the continued growth of our practice.  

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, both pension and 401(k) plans, a minimum of 22 days of vacation plus 10 observed holidays and 3 paid personal days, and a range of programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. Join us in building a better working world.  

Apply now.

What we offer you
At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

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