Transfer Pricing Senior Associate

A Day in the Life

A typical day combines technical analysis, project ownership, client communication, and coordination across a high-volume portfolio of transfer pricing matters. Examples of responsibilities include: 

• 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 that tie to the report and source data.
• Prepare U.S. transfer pricing documentation, 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, and acceptance/rejection rationales.
• Prepare interview guides and lead/support client fact-finding interviews, translating the business 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, etc.
• Review intercompany agreements for consistency with the operating model and TP policy and identify gaps.
• Maintain project trackers, deadlines, file organization, and engagement status, surfacing 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 the output.

Who You Are 

• You have at least two years of transfer pricing experience, with meaningful exposure to documentation, benchmarking, financial analysis, or policy work.
• You take ownership of assigned workstreams, understand the purpose of the analysis, and move projects forward without waiting for step-by-step direction.
• You identify gaps, inconsistencies, and risks early, propose a practical path forward, and know when to escalate.
• Your work is technically supportable, well organized, and ready for efficient senior manager/partner-level review.
• You are highly proficient in Excel and Word and comfortable working with financial statements, trial balances, and large or imperfect datasets.
• You possess strong research, analytical, writing, organizational, and presentation skills.
• You communicate clearly and professionally with clients, teammates, and outside advisers, including concise status updates and actionable requests.
• You are detail-oriented, self-motivated, responsive, and comfortable managing shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• You work effectively in a small, collaborative team and are willing to contribute across technical, client service, project-management, and practice-building needs.
• You improve repeatability by developing better templates, prompts, workpapers, checklists, and project-management practices.
• You have a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or another relevant discipline; a master's is preferred.
• Experience with Capital IQ, transfer pricing databases, local/master file documentation, valuation, controversy, customs, or AI-enabled workflows is a plus.