Tina Minozzi
Tina Minozzi is a senior international tax professional and Managing Director at Ernst & Young, where she has spent nearly three decades building a distinguished career in international tax planning, quantitative analysis, and compliance. Since joining the firm in 1997, Tina has developed a reputation for taking on new challenges and pursuing opportunities that expanded her expertise far beyond a traditional tax career path. Her willingness to explore different areas of the profession has given her a unique depth and breadth of experience that sets her apart in the field.
Over the course of her 36-year career, Tina has worked in a wide range of areas, including forensic accounting, international compliance software development, and large-scale international tax planning. While many people identify her primarily with international tax compliance, Tina sees herself as an international quantitative professional who combines tax planning knowledge with strong analytical and compliance skills. She played a key role in helping launch and grow a quantitative group within EY in the early 2000s and has led sizable teams throughout her career. Today, she focuses on managing large accounts, including top 50 companies, while ensuring clients receive the highest level of service and support.
Tina earned her undergraduate degree in finance from Fordham University, followed by advanced degrees in accounting, business administration, and taxation, as well as leadership training through a program at Harvard University. She is deeply committed to delivering timely, high-quality work while maintaining integrity, kindness, understanding, and empathy in her professional relationships. Tina also believes strongly in embracing change and staying ahead of new technologies, including AI, to remain relevant and continue providing the best possible service to clients.
• Fordham University
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What do you attribute your success to?
I think just being recognized for my unique skill set. Throughout my career, whenever I was given an opportunity to do something new or different, I always chose that path, and it has given me a depth and breadth that is unique and different from a lot of people in the field. I'm often told that by my colleagues, who ask how we can replicate that with our upcoming professionals. Some of it can be, but a lot of it is just by career choices. I've tried to give myself as much exposure to different things as possible. I always saw myself as being a little bit different from other people, especially back then, especially when you think about this profession back in 1990. It was a very male-dominated world. When I got into the working world, I never compromised who I was. I always was true to Tina. I wore colorful suits and I wore artsy earrings. I never wore the blue suits and the white shirts. I wore the coral suit and the purple suit and the art deco earrings. I felt like I could do the job. There were people that believed in me and felt that I could do the job, and therefore, I felt like I could be who I was, and I never compromised that. And I'm proud of that.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
When I received notification that I was getting a full scholarship for the program and I was interviewed. I just didn't see myself being, you know, one of them. I don't know how to describe it, and he really believed in me, and he really saw my potential. And that really made me believe I could do it.Professor Walter O'Connor (deceased) - provided mentorship and belief in her abilities-I would say it was a particular professor the leader of the tax program by the name of Walter O'Connor. He is deceased at this time a few years ago, but I would say he's the one who maybe influenced me the most, because he believed in me."
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
For the women, I try to educate or make them aware that all the opportunities they have today are because of the women that were ahead of me that pioneered that path, so that we can be professionals and significant others and moms and everything else. When I first started working, it was the old boys club. There were very few women who had made it to the partner level or a director level or a significant level at a company. These women worked hard and they made a lot of sacrifices that when I look at the younger generation, no longer exists because of those women, and maybe even women in my generation. I try to make them realize that they're not that far away from the people that paved the way for them. The other thing is, there's always going to be change, and you have to embrace it. When I started working, it was 17-column paper. We had to sign up for a computer, for the computer room, and then eventually we shared computers, and now I'm using and building my own agents with AI. The world is going to change, but because of being in public accounting and our job is to serve our clients and serve them as best as we can, we need to be ahead of it. You're always going to be changing, you're always going to be in that frontier of new technology, and using it and learning it, and never be afraid of that, and always embrace it. I always joke, oh my gosh, I'm too old of a lady to worry about this stuff, but I embrace it, and I'm proud of myself that I can do this. Technology will always be challenging, but we should always embrace it.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
One of the biggest challenges and opportunities in my field right now is the rapid pace of technological change, especially with AI and other emerging tools, because staying ahead of these advancements is essential to best serve clients.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Integrity, kindness, understanding, and empathy are the values that matter most to me, and I strive to bring them from my personal life into my work every day.