Senior Manager – Global Compliance & Reporting – Global Tax Centre of Excellence

Job Description

Senior Manager – Global Compliance & Reporting – Global Tax Centre of Excellence | Ernst and Young

The Tone:
This is a Senior Manager role at Ernst and Young, located in Warrang – Sydney or Naarm – Melbourne, Australia. EY aims to shape futures and build a better working world, with this position sitting within the Global Tax Centre of Excellence (CoE). The CoE is dedicated to incubating emerging solutions, operating complex deals, and driving innovation through market-leading luminaries. This role is pivotal in enabling EY’s ‘All In’ strategy and accelerating the Tax ‘Paradigm Shift,’ ultimately helping clients navigate complexity, regulation, and opportunity through Global Compliance & Reporting services.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Hybrid
• Location: Hybrid, Warrang – Sydney or Naarm – Melbourne, Australia

• Team: Global Compliance & Reporting (GCR) Global Operations within the Global Tax Centre of Excellence
• Mission: Achieve business growth by developing client relationships, informing them of service offerings, and communicating how these will benefit their organizations.
• Tech Stack: new technologies, AI-enabled ways of working

What You’ll Actually Do
• Engagement Leadership: Lead and coordinate global and regional tax compliance and tax advisory engagements, ensuring high-quality outcomes for clients.
• Resource Management: Develop engagement budgets, determine resource requirements, and oversee engagement delivery across multiple teams and jurisdictions.
• Client Relations: Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and key decision-makers, identifying opportunities to support client growth and deliver long-term value.
• Team Development: Coach, mentor, and develop team members while fostering knowledge sharing, collaboration, and open communication across global teams.
• Innovation & Transformation: Champion continuous improvement, innovation, and transformation of global tax delivery models, including the adoption of new technologies and AI-enabled ways of working.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Senior Manager level with core domain knowledge in business tax, global compliance & reporting, and tax advisory.
• Experience: 7+ years of relevant business tax experience, coupled with demonstrated experience leading complex and sizeable engagements while balancing commercial, client, and people priorities.
• Skills: Exceptional leadership, supervisory, analytical, and organisational capability; excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders across borders; a strong commitment to tax technology, AI-enabled ways of working, continuous improvement, and ongoing learning.
• Bonus: CPA or another relevant professional qualification (completed or in progress); experience leading geographically dispersed teams and managing stakeholders across multiple time zones.