Transfer Pricing Senior Associate - Remote Eligible

Overview

This role supports transfer pricing engagements across a high-volume portfolio. Responsibilities span technical analysis, project ownership, client communication, and coordination with internal teams.

Work arrangement options include Remote, Hybrid, or In-Office.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day execution of transfer pricing engagements from kickoff and information gathering through draft, review, finalization, and delivery.
• Analyze trial balances, segmented P&Ls, intercompany transaction schedules, financial statements, forecasts, and supporting workpapers.
• Build and review tested-party calculations, PLIs, year-end true-up models, and other Excel-based analyses tying to the report and source data.
• Prepare U.S. transfer pricing documentation, including local files, planning memoranda, policy summaries, benchmarking studies, and annual refreshes.
• Draft and revise client-ready deliverables, respond to reviewer comments, and perform final quality control.
• Design and execute comparable-company searches, including:
  • Search strategy
  • Quantitative screening
  • Functional review
  • Independence checks
  • Acceptance/rejection rationales
• Prepare interview guides and lead/support client fact-finding interviews, translating business information into functional, risk, and value-chain analyses.
• Communicate directly with clients and foreign advisers regarding data requests, open items, technical questions, status, and next steps.
• Support transfer pricing policy design and implementation across services, distribution, manufacturing, licensing, financing, and related activities.
• Review intercompany agreements for consistency with the operating model and TP policy, identifying gaps.
• Maintain project trackers, deadlines, file organization, and engagement status; surface budget, timing, scope, and data issues early.
• Coordinate with internal tax, audit, valuation, customs, international tax, and outside TP teams.
• Use approved tools and technology to improve research, drafting, comparison, tracking, and quality review while independently validating output.

Requirements

• At least two years of transfer pricing experience, with meaningful exposure to documentation, benchmarking, financial analysis, or policy work.
• Ability to take ownership of assigned workstreams, understand the purpose of the analysis, and move projects forward without step-by-step direction.
• Ability to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and risks early, propose practical next steps, and know when to escalate.
• Work output that is technically supportable, well organized, and ready for efficient senior manager/partner-level review.
• Highly proficient in Excel and Word; comfortable working with financial statements, trial balances, and large or imperfect datasets.
• Strong research, analytical, writing, organizational, and presentation skills.
• Clear, professional communication with clients, teammates, and outside advisers, including concise status updates and actionable requests.
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated, responsive, and comfortable managing shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work effectively in a small, collaborative team and contribute across technical, client service, project-management, and practice-building needs.
• Willingness to improve repeatability by developing better templates, prompts, workpapers, checklists, and project-management practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or another relevant discipline; master’s preferred.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States now or in the future without visa sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Capital IQ, transfer pricing databases, local/master file documentation, valuation, controversy, customs, or AI-enabled workflows.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation: $80,000-$125,000
• Final compensation decisions depend on factors such as geography, experience, education, skills, and internal equity.

Benefits include:

• Generous paid time off
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) profit sharing
• Life and disability insurance
• Lifestyle spending account
• Certification incentives
• Education assistance
• Referral program

Location

Any location in the United States.