Tax - GCR - Director - Reading at Ernst & Young (EY)

The opportunity

Due to significant growth following a number of high profile client wins we are looking for an experienced and driven Director in our Reading office. The role offers the opportunity to work on some of the largest and most exciting clients in the market to help support them as they navigate an ever increasingly complex tax environment.

Your key responsibilities

• Grow and maintain relationships with clients, both existing and new clients
• High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex advisory, compliance and reporting engagements
• Providing exceptional client service with responsibility for quality provided 
• Working collaboratively with other tax specialist teams
• Grow networks and relationships internally and externally
• Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
• Lead team initiatives, covering all aspects of leading a successful team

Skills and attributes for success

• Significant experience in Corporate Tax from practice or from an in-house tax background
• Strong client relationship management skills
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and exhibit strong stakeholder management
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Enthusiastic team player with ability to create and sustain effective teams
• Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff
• Ensure delivery of quality work

To qualify for the role you must have

• Experienced corporate tax practitioner
• ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training Course; or Law qualification / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
• Experience in tax accounting/tax audit
• Proven ability to read and interpret existing and new tax statute

 Ideally, you'll also have

• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget

What we look for

• Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
• Outgoing with good relationship skills and the ability to deliver quality output
• Excellent communicator in range of situations both written and oral
• Change orientated with flexible approach