Ernst & Young Position - NYC

Position: Entry-Level/Senior Consultant – Human Capital, Global Equity Services Practice

Location: United States

Description:

A company's "people investment" is one of its most significant investments. Ernst & Young (EY) believes this with respect to our own people as well as our clients' global employees. The EY culture is one of respect, flexibility, and teamwork. We expect our people to interact respectfully with each other as well as with our clients. We value hard work and client service while recognizing the need for flexibility to address non-work needs/desires.

Our Global Equity team, as part of our Human Capital practice, focuses on assisting clients to effectively design, implement, communicate and administer their global equity and incentive programs for their worldwide employees. We also advise our clients on managing the cost and risks associated with these programs through rigorous due diligence methodologies, optimization strategies, proactive plan design and tax planning and cross-functional teaming.

We are currently seeking both entry level and experienced senior consultants to become part of our national practice to support the design and implementation of global equity compensation programs. This professional will work on various engagements to assist clients with the design, roll-out, implementation and ongoing management of global equity compensation programs and will have the opportunity to gain meaningful exposure to our business and grow as an integral member of our client services team.

Responsibilities:

• Support multiple challenging global engagements for a diverse client base.
• Conduct global tax feasibility and tax due diligence reviews for both local national employees and internationally mobile employees, corporate chargeback and tax deduction reviews and coordinate with EY offices in various countries.
• Develop country-specific plan modification and equity award type recommendations and assist clients with implementation of their global incentive programs.
• Assist clients to implement global payroll reporting and tax withholding policies and procedures for local national employees and international mobile employees, including payroll support.
• Drafting employee communication and education materials and prospectus disclosures for global equity compensation programs.
• Create country specific administrative procedure manuals and process mapping.
• Coordinate legal reviews with allied law firm on securities law/registration requirements, foreign exchange limitations, labor law and entitlement issues.
• Conduct research on tax treaty issues, US payroll tax matters and other tax research projects.

Requirements:
To qualify, candidates must have:
• a JD (MBA, Master's of Tax, or CPA a plus)
• Preferably, although not required, a minimum of 1-3 years of related experience assisting clients with global incentive and compensation programs.
• Preferably, although not required, strong tax technical skills with an understanding of the global tax and accounting issues of equity compensation programs.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative skills and analytical acumen.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to work on multiple projects.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with EY offices in other countries.
• PC proficiency including strong working knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Contact Information:

Jason French | Manager | Performance and Reward

Ernst and Young LLP
925 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115, United States of America
Office: +1 216 583 2126 | Fax: +1-866-867-2045 | jason.french@ey.com

(Jason is a UW Graduate Program in Taxation alum.)