After a year of lecturing at my alma mater, I joined the E&Y Atlanta office in June 2007 as a Senior Analyst. The first sixmonths were tough as I tried unsuccessfully tomeet my boss’ high expectations of their first “experienced” PhD TP hire. However, my eagerness to learn and work hard resulted in a fast-track career that saw me promoted to manager in less than two years. Bymy 5th year, I was eligible for a SeniorManager (SM) promotion, just before the opportunity to transfer to South Africa came up. That was a pretty fast career track for a Big 4 firm in amaturemarket. Huge thanks tomy then boss, Jay Camillo, for believing inme and giving me huge opportunities to learn and prove myself. I am good at what I do because of Jay’s tutelage, coaching, and mentoring. Fortunately, I had an opportunity to attend EY’s 2011 Africa Tax Conference, which was held in my home country, Ghana. I got this opportunity because I was the TPManager on a large Multinational Enterprise (MNE) account that had global footprints in over 120 countries. At the conference, I learned that both Ghana and Nigeria were going to introduce TP regulations. My career dream had always been to get aWestern 40
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