Senior - Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting

Senior - Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting

Location: Warsaw - 2 days in office / 3 days remote

Let us introduce you the job offer by EY GDS Poland – a member of the global integrated service delivery center network by EY.

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. We’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a hub of innovation, technology, and global talent, driving operational excellence and EY’s purpose of building a better working world. With a network across 9 countries and 20 cities, GDS professionals leverage data, AI, and advanced technology to enhance EY’s services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy, and transactions.

Global Compliance & Reporting (GCR) – Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting CoE

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 Senior. You’ll support multi-country client engagements in tax accounting and direct tax, assisting with Group Tax Accounting/Reporting services under US GAAP and IFRS. In this role, you’ll contribute to process improvement and help deliver 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.

Your key responsibilities

Tax Accounting & Reporting

• Assist in the preparation and review of interim, quarterly, and year-end global tax provisions under IFRS and US GAAP
• Support tax reporting deliverables received from controllers and tax managers across the Group
• Contribute to US GAAP and IFRS disclosure preparation, including reconciliation of GAAP differences
• Prepare and maintain tax provision memoranda and supporting documentation
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, including SOX documentation and audit processes

Process Improvement & Compliance

• Identify and support implementation of process improvements in tax provision and compliance functions
• Prepare tax account reconciliations and related schedules
• Helping drive efficiencies on client’s or EY’s processes, designing and implementing simple solutions to complex processes, leveraging benefits of standardization, centralization and technology
• Contribute to continuous improvement in tax reporting processes through design, control, and operational enhancements

Collaboration & Development

• Assist in mentoring and developing junior staff on ASC 740, IAS 12, and other key tax concepts
• Collaborate with internal tax, accounting, and finance teams, as well as external service providers

Skills and attributes for success

• Broad and deep corporate tax compliance experience
• Understanding of ASC 740 and IAS 12 frameworks
• Corporate income tax experience (any country or countries)
• Strong communication skills and experience working with multi-country teams
• Ability to distil complex concepts into clear, actionable insights
• Organized and able to deliver tax accounting in a short timeframe
• Experience supporting and developing junior staff
• Problem solving capabilities and process improvement mindset
• Ability to manage time to deliver quality output

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Degree qualified
• 3+ years of experience in corporate tax and withholding tax
• Experience working in direct tax accounting, in professional services or industry (combination preferred, not essential)
• Understanding of the tax reporting process, balance sheet reconciliation process, and basic understanding of direct tax compliance review
• Good understanding of deferred tax concepts
• Good experience in tax accounting packages and strong Excel skills
• Agile to the changing client environment and able to provide quality deliverables under tight timelines
• Experience providing tax services to a portfolio of clients
• Proactive and able to identify opportunities for business development
• Team player with the ability to add value to the current team

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Ability to plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor own workload
• Experience working with teams across multiple jurisdictions
• Experience in process and technology design is beneficial but not mandatory
• Tax transformation/compliance process improvement experience is a plus
• Experience of rollout and/or implementation of tax technology is a plus
• Accounting qualification and/or Tax qualification (ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA) is a plus

What we look for

We are looking for individuals with a growth mindset, people who communicate well, work as part of a team, and drive their responsibilities through to completion. An energetic team player with the ability to build strong working relationships with client and EY teams alike. A results-driven candidate with the capability to add financial value to an engagement, and bring innovation to their clients and team.

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across nine locations – Argentina, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

About EY

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EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

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