Kazuhiro Ebina is Managing Partner of Ernst & Young Tax Co, an EY member firm in Japan. He combines his management and HR responsibilities with his role as a tax consultant providing professional services to some of Japan’s largest corporations.
His EY career began in 1998 when he joined the Tokyo office of a predecessor company of Ernst & Young Tax Co to handle an extensive range of tax consulting and compliance assignments for financial institutions including banking, securities, insurance, investment advisory and investment funds. His career highlights include supporting consumption tax adjustments for financial institutions, supporting the development of a global tax management structure and providing tax advisory in both domestic and cross-border group reorganizations for holding companies, businesses incorporating in Japan and more.
His overseas experience includes a secondment to New York to the Japan Tax Desk of Ernst & Young LLP, where he specialized in international tax, financial product accounting and taxes, and securitization/liquidation/fund investment structuring.
He is a Japan qualified tax accountant, with an MA from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo.
How Kazuhiro is shaping the future with confidence
"Rather than just a tax accountant, I want to be the best business advisor who can win a client's trust. I build genuine and sincere relationships with clients so that I am the first to be called when the need arises. I believe in the value of teams and collaboration: businesses are becoming ever more complex, and there's a limit to what you can achieve alone. We place skilled staff in the right place so that we gather global knowledge and experience to provide the most effective advice possible. This is one of the key strengths of the EY network and the 400,000 EY people working around the world, 12,000 of whom are based in Japan, and who work within our flexible and open corporate culture.
Today's dynamic changes in tax lead to ever-diversifying needs. My mission is to promote innovative tax services that diverge from conventional approaches, reimagining how we serve our clients and the broader business community."