The opportunity
You will lead on tax advisory projects, and work closely with EY colleagues across the globe, other areas of tax and broader EY advisory service lines to deliver on large scale projects, M&A and restructuring transactions.
As part of the EY indirect tax team, you will experience unparalleled opportunities to develop your career, build your global VAT technical skills, and experience working on complex and challenging projects and assignments. We are looking for a highly motivated, committed, and hard-working tax professional and team player who is looking for a challenging career move.
Your key responsibilities
- Enthusiastic senior manager with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams
- Managing the successful delivery of the highest quality advice to clients, ensuring technical excellence alongside a practical/business focus approach
- Taking day to day leadership of client delivery team
- Helping people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring team members
- Significant involvement in the management of the team, both in terms of strategy and operations, and through managing junior staff development
- Collaborating with other teams within EY to deliver a broad range of client solutions
Your client responsibilities
- Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
- Business development skills - able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients
- Overall responsibility for quality of client service
- Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
- Develop networks and maintain relationships both internally and externally
- Contribute to successfully extracting maximum value for both EY and clients from the tax services delivered whilst managing risk appropriately for both client and the firm
Skills and attributes for success
- Client driven and strategically and commercially aware
- Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
- Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
- Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget and working capital
- Negotiation skills, ability to develop ideas, form opinions and handle challenges
- Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
- Enthusiastic team player with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams
Qualifications and Experience
- 8+ years’ experience in energy indirect tax, ideally within a professional services environment
- ACA/ACCA/CA; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course; or Law qualification; CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA)
- Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
- Ability to build strong client relationships
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to motivate and develop team members
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
What we look for
- Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
- Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
- Highly experienced tax practitioner with reviewing skills and expertise in functional area
- Interest in energy and sustainability
- Commitment to develop your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of developments in UK and international indirect tax, as well as across the industry sector so that you can better advise our clients