Vanquish the blues with hard work and optimism
After graduation, Veronica Lee Wing-men joined Ernst & Young as a staff accountant in the audit department Through the firm’s rotation programme, Lee had a chance to move to the tax department, where she excelled and was promoted to manager of tax and business advisory services. She talks to Wong Yat-hei
What’s your academic background?
I have a bachelor of business and administration from the University of Hong Kong.
How do you start your day?
We have meetings and conference calls with clients every day, but these can be held any time, so I have no fixed routine. Aside from the meetings, I would always start my day checking or responding to e-mails. I also call my clients. Then, I would walk through my work list, arrange each task’s priorities and allocate work to my subordinates.
What does your job entail?
Generally, my work includes reviewing my subordinates’ tax compliance or advisory work, providing tax advice and preparing presentation materials for client meetings.
Our advisory work is very extensive; it includes advices on multinational clients on holding structuring planning for their inbound and outbound investments, supply chain management, operation review, tax controversy and many others.
What are the major challenges you’ve encountered so far?
Recently, I had taken up an ongoing assign