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Join EY Tax as a tax professional and you'll be helping international and multinational companies align their global tax position with their business strategy, to maintain competitive advantage and provide shareholder value. We are recruiting for a manager to join our International Tax and Transaction Services - Financial Services in London or Leeds.
EY's Financial Services (FS) Tax practice is the largest such practice in the UK with a fine reputation for sector expertise and close, trusted adviser, relationships across a broad range of FS clients including globally systemic financial institutions and niche new market entrants and disruptors.
The UK FS International and Transaction Tax Services (ITTS) team comprises 75 professionals, mainly in London but also in Edinburgh and Leeds and combines international tax services (encompassing all technical corporate tax advisory services) with transaction tax services (M&A / deals tax). This team structure, introduced on a global EY basis in 2019, provides a cross fertilisation of tax advisory services and provides rich career prospects for those with an aptitude for providing tax advice to the FS market.
The ITTS team advises a wide range of clients across the Banking, Insurance and Wealth & Asset Management sectors, including having advised on many high-profile transactions and deals reported in the press over the past few years with top FS multinationals.
The opportunity
This is a period of unprecedented change in the global international tax arena, which is resulting in huge demand in the market for specialised tax advisory services.
We have ambitious growth plans in our FS ITTS team. If you're a manager with an interest in Banking, Insurance and/or Wealth & Asset Management and want to further develop or build on your industry knowledge, you can be certain that as a Tax Manager within our team you'll be joining a group which offers you unrivalled opportunities to work on a broad range of advisory opportunities from smaller inbound clients to huge multinationals.
Your key responsibilities
* Contributing to building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service.
* Managing the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and a practical/business driven approach.
* Identifying and driving opportunities using your knowledge gained from other projects, technical training, and knowledge sharing sessions.
* Building your own strong client and internal relationships in the Banking, Insurance or Wealth & Asset Management markets.
* Counseling and developing junior staff through delegation and on-the-job training.
Skills and attributes for success
* Strong tax advisory technical skills.
* Client driven and strategically and commercially aware.
* Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.
* Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work.
* Strong and motivated team player.
* Coaching and developing more junior staff.
To qualify for the role, you must have
* Expertise in international tax.
* Any of the following preferred: ACA / CTA / legal qualification or equivalent.
* Previous people management experience.
* Experience of coaching and developing more junior team members.
* Experience of working with financial services clients.
Ideally, you'll also have
* Project management skills, plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget.
What we look for
You'll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues so that you can better advise our clients. The types of project you'll contribute towards may include:
* Expansion into new markets.
* Pre-merger reorganisations and post-merger integration.
* Organisational structure rationalisation.
* Business model redesign.
* Optimisation of capital structure and financing.
* Managing the risk arising from global law change such as BEPS.
* Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in UK and globally.
In return we'll provide investment in the right sort of training and offer you the 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.
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 whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities.
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.
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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