Financial Services Tax & Law - Global Compliance & Reporting - Tax Senior - Leeds
Date: 9 Aug 2024
Requisition ID: 1493253
Join EY’s Financial Services (FS) Tax practice as a Senior Advisor, helping clients meet the complex demands of today’s tax environment. You will manage relationships with key local and national clients, delivering services and introducing deep specialists as required.
You will help clients understand the tax implications of political, regulatory, accounting, and law changes, building sustainable strategies to deal with them. With a focus on tax compliance, tax reporting, and audit, you will also have the opportunity to engage in advisory and transactions.
The opportunity
EY has ambitious plans to develop and expand in National Markets and further develop our high-performing teams. Working in our FS Global Compliance and Reporting (GCR) team will allow you to serve and strengthen relationships with clients locally and contribute significantly to national accounts.
Our FS Global Compliance and Reporting team has grown rapidly over recent years to 120 people, creating the need for local tax expertise specialized in the sector. Joining the team will give you the unique opportunity to influence, shape, and mold the tax practice while gaining invaluable experience. You will have the opportunity to bring your expertise to help drive the growth of our business and build key relationships with prestigious clients.
If you’re creative, innovative, curious, and looking to progress in your career, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Your key responsibilities
* Contribute to building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service.
* Ensure technical excellence and a practical/business-driven approach on all projects.
* Identify and drive opportunities; use knowledge gained from other projects and knowledge sharing sessions to add input to new projects and proposals.
* Build strong client and internal relationships; develop and use your relationship skills to create your own external and internal networks.
* Counsel and develop more junior staff through delegation and on-the-job training.
Skills and attributes for success
* Strategically and commercially aware.
* Ability to build strong client relationships and committed to delivering exceptional client service.
* Excellent communicator in both written and oral situations.
* Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work.
* Strong and motivated team player who integrates with new teams quickly.
* Coaching and developing more junior staff.
* Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out effective reviews, and know when to refer upwards.
To qualify for the role, you must have
* Experience in corporate tax with a large accountancy or law firm, HMRC, or in-house tax team.
* Any of the following preferred: ACA / ACCA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g., law qualification).
* Graduate/graduate calibre or equivalent work experience.
Ideally, you will also have
What we look for
You’ll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of developments in UK and international tax concepts and your awareness of issues affecting the financial services sector so that you can better advise our clients. The types of projects you’ll contribute towards may include:
* Tax reporting.
* Tax compliance.
* General advisory and applying new tax legislation.
* Impact of regulation and regulatory reporting.
* Tax due diligence and structuring advice.
* Managing relationships with HMRC.
In return, we’ll provide investment in the right sort of training and offer you opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop and challenge you so that you’re in the best place to further develop as a tax professional.
Whatever the projects and assignments you work on, you can be confident that you’re contributing towards helping our clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy, ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service.
What working at EY offers
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers, and promotions.
Plus, we offer:
* Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around.
* Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
* The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you.
EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service while allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you achieve a lifestyle balance.
About EY
As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise, and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
Join us in building a better working world.
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