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
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The opportunity
Our Global Tax Managed Services team works with leading organisations across a range of services from full tax and finance operate outsourcing, supporting with the design and implementation of their tax operating model, compliance process design and the project management of outsourced compliance and reporting services.
We are a team which embraces diversity and inclusion with a mix of cultures, nationalities and backgrounds. We believe this makes us perfectly suited to the global environment in which we work.
We are looking for an experienced Newcastle based Manager to join our thriving team. You will work closely primarily with our London and India teams, also with opportunities to support our wider teams in Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary and France. As part of this energetic and diverse team, you will have opportunity to gain experience across these services, further develop your skills and have day-to-day contact with senior team members at our clients.
This is an exciting time to join our specialised team when we are seeing unprecedented demand for our services and strong growth opportunities.
Your key responsibilities
- Contract management
- Managing a number of global compliance contracts, some with client interface and some in a supervisory service delivery role.
- Proactively managing service delivery risk across those contracts through the use of issue and risk logs and the implementation of escalation processes.
- Developing and maintaining relationships with key contract stakeholders (internal and external) across multiple jurisdictions, and ensuring effective and timely communication.
- Manage contract governance including adherence to agreed process and procedures
- Manage contract reporting against service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) ensuring timely resolution of issues
- Provide guidance and support to peers, colleagues and clients on contractual issues, and oversee local fee and scope negotiations
- Setting clear objectives and expectations for junior team members including day-to-day responsibility for the management of offshore team members.
- Finance
- Reviewing budgets and resourcing requirements on a regular basis and supporting the Global Engagement Leader in meeting the margin goals for the accounts.
- Billing fees according to agreed contract billing schedule.
- Quality and Risk Management
- Supporting the Global Engagement leader on Quality & Risk Management (QRM) matters, overseeing implementation and adherence to agreed processes, procedures and timetables.
- Liaising with Global and Tax QRM and legal teams in the resolution of client service management issues.
- Maintaining the specified contractual framework and supporting agreements for all engagements.
- Detailed scoping and process assessments
- Supporting a client understand full suite of compliance filings currently undertaken in countries
- Review and suggesting improvements to compliance and reporting processes considering data sources, hand-off points and controls
- Business development and proposal assistance
- Working with the Global Engagement Leader to support pursuit and proposal activities, in response to client RFPs. This includes running global pricing exercises and being a part of EY’s presentation team at client pitches.
- Support development of client business case for change
- Identify opportunities for additional EY services and or extensions to EY outsourcing services for existing EY clients.
- Compliance methodology
- Sharing successful tools, techniques and approaches with other team members;
- Project managing small business development projects.
Skills and attributes for success
- Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
- Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
- Process design skills
- 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
- Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff
- Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day leadership of delivery team
- Change orientated with flexible approach
- Innovative mindset with a focus on problem solving
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Experience in Corporate Tax, Indirect Tax or accountancy from a professional services firm or in-house team
- An undergraduate or post-graduate degree
- ACA / CA / ATTI/CTA/Tax Inspectors or a breadth of knowledge equivalent to a tax specialist qualification is not essential but welcome
- Proven project management skills, and an ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget. A PRINCE2 qualification or similar would be beneficial.
- Experience in process and technology design is beneficial but not mandatory
- Proficient multi-tasking ability
- Ability to coach more junior team members and add value to the team
- Experience with managing teams across multiple jurisdictions
What we look for
- Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
- Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
- Individual with an understanding of tax regimes
- Ability to work across a range of projects and clients often with tight deadlines
- Strong commercial and negotiation skills
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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
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