Tax Intern, Transfer Pricing

Job Description

Tax Intern, Transfer Pricing | BDO USA, PC

The Tone:
BDO provides assurance, tax, and advisory services to a diverse range of clients across various industries. This role works with a team of consulting economists, assisting multi-national companies in navigating the complexities of intercompany pricing. The work is crucial for ensuring that clients comply with intricate foreign and domestic tax regulations, making a tangible impact on their global operations.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Team: Consulting economists
• Mission: Help multi-national companies accurately price transactions between their corporate entities to comply with foreign and domestic tax regulations.
• Tech Stack: Excel, PowerPoint, Word

What You’ll Actually Do
• Client Engagement: Conduct interviews to gather critical information on corporate structure, functional responsibilities, risks, value drivers, industry, and historical context affecting intercompany transactions.
• Data Analysis: Analyze industry and client financial data to benchmark appropriate intercompany pricing policies, and perform additional financial analysis such as evaluating market penetration or calculating intangible property value.
• Documentation & Reporting: Prepare comprehensive project reports detailing the approach, research, quantitative analysis, and results to document a client’s intercompany price compliance and present consulting advice.
• Content Creation: Draft industry overviews, functional analyses, and technical memos for transfer pricing reports, and create detailed summaries of client interviews for team members.
• Quality Assurance: Proofread and edit highly technical and descriptive reports and documents before delivery to clients to ensure accuracy and professionalism.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Economics, or another relevant field of study. Possess a basic understanding of transfer pricing and a desire to learn more about the industry.
• Experience: Leadership experience preferred.
• Skills: Exceptional research and writing capabilities; skilled in detailed reading, proofing, and editing highly technical material; strong analytical and basic research skills; effective interpersonal skills and experience with presentations or public speaking, enabling professional client communication; solid organizational skills with the ability to meet project deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously with a focus on details.
• Bonus: Leadership experience.