The GES Manager - Expat is responsible for advising clients on international assignment structuring, presenting researched conclusions and recommendations of alternative courses of action, and identifying various methods of complying with tax obligations. The role also involves marketing, networking and business development efforts within the industry and the Expatriate Services specialization.
Requirements
- Conducts arrival and departure tax meetings for expatriates and inpatriates
- Manages retention of long-term client relationships
- Supervises client and service delivery expectations of global employees of corporate clients and individual engagements
- Participates in the management of client fee arrangements
- Reviews and signs U.S. individual income tax returns for inbound and outbound international assignees
- Examines and approves international assignment cost projection calculations, compensation balance sheets, assignment cost projections, assignment agreements and equalizations
- Acts as primary contact for assigned clients regarding communication and management of service
- Communicates with clients and team members in writing, via phone and in person to conclude and sign tax returns for individual assignees
- Identifies potential tax issues and evaluates and selects alternative actions to lessen tax burden and cost of compliance
- Recognizes and communicates potential risks, along with potential changes in tax policy and applies new policies to tax compliance
- Conducts period client meetings
- Manages resource allocation, workflow and resource utilization based on business need
- Identifies when research is necessary
- Frames issues to be researched
- Identifies sources of reliable and relevant information
- Analyzes facts and authorities
- Reports the issues researched for various global tax and human resource management matters, as appropriate
- Identifies issues and develops resolutions based on general knowledge and transfers resolutions into multiple tax functional specialties
- Prepares correspondence on various global human resource management and individual tax issues
- Partners with Expatriate Services professionals on assigned projects, business development proposals, practice development challenges and client service matters, as needed
- Assists in addressing routine questions from federal and state agencies, as needed
- Attends professional development and training sessions on a regularly
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
