Financial Services - International Corporate Tax Advisory - Senior

Location: Seattle, San Francisco, Charlotte, Chicago, San Jose, New York City, Iselin

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The opportunity

EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace and the only professional services firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services industry – the Financial Services Organization (FSO). Our focused model and bold ambition have put us at the center of the events that continue to reshape and redefine our industry, working side by side with a range of clients from our most venerable institutions to dynamic new entrants across Banking and Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management, Insurance, and Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction. Our purpose is to help build a financial services industry in which financial institutions are trusted and flourish, and the global economy is healthy, growing, and secure. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve complex challenges, then come join our dynamic FSO team!

The International Tax and Transaction Services practice is comprised of three competencies focused on advising corporate and private equity clients on all aspects of their capital agenda – Transaction Tax Advisory, International Corporate Tax Advisory and Transfer Pricing. ITTS is unique in that it is a joint venture between the Transaction Advisory Services and Tax service lines allowing ITTS to maximize market opportunities as well as the growth and development of ITTS professionals. The transactions market is a major part of EY’s market strategy and a huge opportunity for both the business and EY professionals. With this many service offerings, you will have the opportunity to participate in cross-competency trainings to help develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning.

The International Corporate Tax Advisory competency (ICTA) is responsible for advising clients on international tax operations, including cross-border controversy, international policy advisory, international tax quantitative services, internal restructuring and refinancing.

As a Senior in Cross Border Tax, you will advise on complex international tax matters, align multi‑jurisdictional tax areas through investment modeling, and support cross‑border methods, disputes, and corporate acquisitions. You will help foreign entities plan strategically and assess treaty, permanent establishment, and withholding implications to optimize global positions. Key points:

• Lead cross‑border planning and restructuring
• Review foreign income taxation, treaty implementation, and withholding
• Provide jurisdiction‑specific reporting guidance

Your key responsibilities

Depending on your unique skills and ambitions, you could be managing various responsibilities, from technical planning to strategic advisory services. This is a highly regulated industry, so it’s all about maintaining our reputation as trusted advisors through sound judgment, technical excellence, and a commitment to delivering value to our clients.

Define and execute engagement deliverables while tracking status, economics, resources, and budgets. Participate daily in client work sessions as a workstream member, with opportunities to lead. Support sales (~5–10%), assist with RFPs, and maintain engagement‑economics reporting. Operate with limited supervision and guide junior team members. Location: flexible; travel is required regularly to client sites. What’s in it for you: global exposure, daily client collaboration, and accelerated growth through high‑impact delivery.

• Apply broad policies and precedents to guide decisions
• Implement procedures and guidelines across workstreams
• Conduct in‑depth evaluations where variable factors drive analysis

Skills and attributes for success

• Identifying and answering complex domestic and international tax issues
• Providing technical tax advice and planning services to a portfolio of projects
• Building long-lasting relationships with our clients, developing your understanding of their unique needs and requirements
• Constantly developing your own knowledge, maintaining your status as a trusted advisor by monitoring emerging trends, technologies and practices
• Manage engagement economics across the EY global network
• Delivery against locally set objectives using sound judgment and methods
• Discipline in tracking deliverables, status, and outcomes while meeting targets
• Coordination of junior work with day‑to‑day guidance
• Comfort operating with limited supervision and deciding using experience and precedents

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor’s degree required (4‑year degree)
• Typically 2–4 years of relevant experience
• Progress toward (or completion of) a valid CPA certification or licensed attorney status
• Tax due diligence, deal structuring, and post-acquisition planning experience and/or inbound and outbound transaction consulting with international tax research, planning and compliance experience
• Experience managing budgets, projects and people
• Tax compliance and reporting requirements
• Cross‑border tax implication analysis
• International tax structures knowledge
• BEPS planning
• Global/international tax planning
• Data analysis and interpretation

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience maintaining engagement‑economics reports and assisting on RFP responses
• Exposure to resource planning, status tracking, and budget stewardship
• Participation in daily client sessions as a workstream member or team lead

What we look for

We value professionals who pair rigorous analysis with practical judgment, collaborate across hybrid teams, communicate with impact, and build trusted client relationships while driving measurable outcomes in complex, multi‑country environments.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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.

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $91,100 to $150,200. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $109,400 to $170,600. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
• Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
• Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.
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