What happens to a tax career built on international structuring when a five word email from a national partner make you question whether the work still needs you?

Muhammad Yammout is a Senior Manager in International Tax at EY, where he has spent his career since starting in Diversified Staff Group and moving into International Tax Services. Before EY, he worked tax controversy at Optima Tax Relief, closing audits. He later completed a tax LLM at Loyola. His path started even earlier, as a teenage spoken word poet and volunteer poetry mentor before he ever touched a tax return.

Together they explore what changed as LLM's came around and what actually gets harder (not easier) between making manager and making senior manager at a Big Four firm, and why Muhammad thinks the next decade of tax work belongs to a new hybrid role he calls the tax engineer.

Tune in for a conversation about what it takes to stay relevant in a profession that is being rebuilt from the ground up.