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Transfer Pricing Senior Associate II

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In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
111K-142K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
111K-142K Annually
Senior level
Leads tax and transfer pricing engagements, including planning, execution, client advisory, financial and economic analysis, valuations, benchmarking, compliance, and report preparation. Supervises and mentors associates and interns, manages engagement budgets, communicates with client leadership, resolves complex transfer pricing issues, and recommends business improvements. Requires strong tax accounting, U.S. GAAP, quantitative analysis, communication, and technology skills.
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As the Tax Transfer Pricing Senior Associate, a national business line role, you’ll be responsible for the preparation and review of a full range of tax and transfer pricing services for multiple clients in a wide variety of industries and market segments. You’ll collaborate closely with managers, associates, and other teammates from around the globe to help clients identify and solve complex business problems through deploying a wide range of Grant Thornton solutions in a collaborative manner, ensuring quality above all, because together is how we succeed. 

From day one, you’ll be empowered by formal training opportunities, experiential (on the job) training and access to industry leading expertise to help you develop a broad and deep technical skill set along with increased business acumen to help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include:

  • Leading client engagements from start to finish, which includes planning, executing, directing, and completing tax and transfer pricing projects and managing engagements to budget

  • Supervising, training, and mentoring associates and interns on tax and transfer pricing projects and assessing performance of associates for engagement reviews; performing in-charge role as needed

  • Evaluating and advising clients on inter-company transfers of tangible goods, intangible property, services, and loans and conducting financial and economic analyses of multinational and domestic corporations, industry and market research, economic valuations, comparative financial benchmarking, and report documentation

  • Preparing and analyzing financial and economic data for tax and regulatory compliance using MS Word, Excel, Access, and various statistical sampling packages

  • Proactively interacting with key client management to gather information, resolve tax- and transfer pricing-related problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements

  • Other duties as assigned

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You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field required

  • Masters in taxation /LLM, Master of Economics, PhD in Economics, Finance, Business Statistics, Tax or Supply Chain, Engineering, MBA, other advanced degree, related certification or relevant experience preferred

  • Minimum of two years of progressive tax and transfer pricing experience in public accounting, consulting, or academia 

  • Strong experience in several of the following areas: strategic transfer pricing studies, financial statement analysis, valuations, quantitative and competitive analysis, statistical sampling and econometrics, strategy evaluation, and/or operational performance analysis

  • Strong tax accounting skills with proficiency in U.S. GAAP 

  • Computer expertise including knowledge of tax software and technology 

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

  • Can travel as needed

 

The base salary range for this position is between $111,320 and $141,933. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job -related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate. 

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