Tax - R&d Manager Birmingham jobs at Ey in United Kingdom, Birmingham

Role description: Time Off coordinator (Associate)

In this role, you will provide efficient and effective processing of HR administration within specific procedural and service guidelines. You will be responsible for the accurate and speedy processing of all leave of absence activity (family leaves, unpaid leave, sickness absence etc) in accordance with agreed key performance indicators, and the coordination of this information for the precise processing of payroll activity.

Your key responsibilities

• Deliver excellent service in line with leave of absence processes and ensure service level agreements are achieved. Follow work instructions to execute transactions of requests for time-off during employment.
• Undertake cyclical activity aligned to the annual operational calendar.
• Self-review that all process steps and payroll actions are fully completed to ensure accurate payroll processing and eradication of errors.
• Action housekeeping and other related reports, taking appropriate actions identified within the reports.
• Process administration in relation to employees requesting time-off including: sickness absence, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and unpaid leave.
• Resolve queries initiated by the EY Help HR Contact Centre team that require further investigation. Ensure satisfactory closure of issues that develop into cases, and ensure any learning is taken on board.
• Maintain an up to date knowledge of current EY policy and process developments.
• Ensure compliance with the Firm’s policies, best HR practice and employment legislation at all times.
• Regularly support the continuous improvement initiative.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• An ability to work to and enhance prescribed HR procedures
• Attention to detail and a focus on accuracy and quality

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Knowledge of operational HR systems

What we look for:

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, coaching and feedback 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.

You will be required to work closely with clients’ finance, tax and IT engineers. Working within the EY team you will be involved in the preparation of R&D claims and making sure of compliance against tax legislation. Within the Innovation team you will be exposed to cash grants and patent box applications. As well as working directly on existing projects, you will also be offered the chance to support business development opportunities.

Your key responsibilities

• To work alongside teams working on the efficient preparation and successful delivery of R&D tax claims
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service, taking a leading role in interaction with clients' senior stakeholders
• Build relationships both within the firm and externally with clients, identifying opportunities, managing client team stakeholders, and liaising with other client facing teams
• Contribute to winning new work by proactively managing our existing clients base and contribute to winning new clients by contributing to business development activities.

Skills and attributes for success

What we look for

• Experienced in either wider Corporation Tax or R&D tax practitioner role
• Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
• Outgoing with good relationship skills and the ability to deliver quality output
• Strong technical skills and keen to develop further
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out an effective review and know when to refer upwards
• Relationship management skills with ability to manage client expectations and build effective relationships at all levels

Ideally, you’ll also

• Fully qualified ACA/CA/ACCA/ATT/CTA
• Strong Excel capability including use of XLOOKUP, IF functions and pivot tables, including manipulating large and complex datasets
• Strong writing, communication and project management skills.

R&D Tax Manager - Birmingham

As a Manager in the team you will be working with a variety of very high-profile clients from owner managed businesses to multinational groups, who are at the front line in developing cutting edge technology which is helping the UK to stay as a market leader by encouraging investment into research and development.

You will be required to work closely with clients’ finance, tax and engineering departments. You will work with clients from all different sectors and of all different sizes. Working within the EY team you will be leading the preparation of R&D claims and making sure of compliance against tax legislation. Within the Innovation team you will be exposed to cash grants and patent box applications. As well as working directly on existing projects, you will also be offered the chance to support business development opportunities.

Your key responsibilities:

• Effectively leading project teams, exhibiting strong communication skills and be able to work collaboratively with other team members of different skill sets to deliver client facing engagements
• To lead on the efficient and successful delivery of R&D tax services to the client inclusive of all tax technical elements
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service, taking a leading role in interaction with clients' senior stakeholders
• Build relationships both within the firm and externally with clients, identifying opportunities, managing client team stakeholders, and liaising with other client facing teams
• Contribute to winning new work by proactively managing our existing clients base and contribute to winning new clients by contributing to business development activities.
• Assist with the management and successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
• Responsible for day-to-day client liaison

Skill and attributes for success:

• Experienced R&D tax practitioner
• Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
• Outgoing with good relationship skills and the ability to deliver quality output
• Strong technical skills and keen to develop further
• Ability to build strong client relationships
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out an effective review and know when to refer upwards
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Fully qualified ACA/CA/ACCA/ATT/CTA; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training Course
• Experience leading on, and project managing, the preparation of claims
• Strong Excel capability including use of VLOOKUP, IF functions and pivot tables, including manipulating large and complex datasets
• Experience in leading teams and coordinating delivery of services both in the office and remotely
• Strong writing and communication skills.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

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

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
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build a rapport with clients quickly

What we offer

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:

• Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership:We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

• 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
• 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
• ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training Course; or Law qualification
• Degree qualified
• Experienced corporate tax practitioner
• Experience in tax accounting/tax audit
• Proven ability to read and interpret existing and new tax statute
• Project management skills, plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
• 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
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, coaching and feedback 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
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.Apply now.

Senior International Tax Manager - Open to flexible working

You will be working with some of the sector leading Partners who are well known and respected in the market. You’ll also be working with a high performing team who have advised on many high profile and market transactions over the past few years.

It is a great time to join the ITS team who have expanded exponentially in recent years and are continuing to grow. With a number of disrupting factors in the market at the moment you’ll be at the forefront of helping our clients to navigate the market on an international scale.

Our international tax professionals will work on a variety of projects which are focused on helping clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy, including:

• Expansion into new markets

• Pre-transaction reorganisations and post-transaction integration

• Legal structure rationalisation

• Operating model redesign

• Optimisation of capital structure and financing

• Optimisation of intellectual property ownership and reliefs

• Managing the risk arising from global law change such as BEPS, and

• Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in UK and globally

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients, winning work proactively and contributing to winning new clients
• Management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business focus approach taken
• Overall responsibility of quality of client service
• Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
• Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
• Develop junior staff through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments

Skills and attributes for success

• Client focus and commercially aware
• Strong international and UK tax technical skills and understanding
• Commitment to building strong client relationship management with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
• Negotiation skills and handle challenges
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Strong business acumen with ability to manage engagement financial results
• 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, sustain effective teams
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day delivery
• Change orientated and innovative with flexible approach to ways of working and adoption of new technologies

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Experienced tax practitioner with reviewing skills and expertise in international tax
• Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)
• Graduate/graduate calibre or equivalent work experience
• Experience of Managing a team and/or coaching and developing more junior team members

What we offer

• Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership:We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• You can read more here

Senior International Tax Manager - Open to flexible working

You will be working with some of the sector leading Partners who are well known and respected in the market. You’ll also be working with a high performing team who have advised on many high profile and market transactions over the past few years.

It is a great time to join the ITS team who have expanded exponentially in recent years and are continuing to grow. With a number of disrupting factors in the market at the moment you’ll be at the forefront of helping our clients to navigate the market on an international scale.

Our international tax professionals will work on a variety of projects which are focused on helping clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy, including:

• Expansion into new markets

• Pre-transaction reorganisations and post-transaction integration

• Legal structure rationalisation

• Operating model redesign

• Optimisation of capital structure and financing

• Optimisation of intellectual property ownership and reliefs

• Managing the risk arising from global law change such as BEPS, and

• Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in UK and globally

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients, winning work proactively and contributing to winning new clients
• Management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business focus approach taken
• Overall responsibility of quality of client service
• Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
• Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
• Develop junior staff through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments

Skills and attributes for success

• Client focus and commercially aware
• Strong international and UK tax technical skills and understanding
• Commitment to building strong client relationship management with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
• Negotiation skills and handle challenges
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Strong business acumen with ability to manage engagement financial results
• 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, sustain effective teams
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day delivery
• Change orientated and innovative with flexible approach to ways of working and adoption of new technologies

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Experienced tax practitioner with reviewing skills and expertise in international tax
• Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)
• Graduate/graduate calibre or equivalent work experience
• Experience of Managing a team and/or coaching and developing more junior team members

What we offer

• Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership:We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• You can read more here

As a Senior Consultant you will be working with a variety of clients from owner managed businesses to multinational groups, who are at the front line in developing cutting edge technology which is helping the UK to stay as a market leader by encouraging investment into research and development.

The successful candidate will get the opportunity to work as part of a diverse team of highly successful industry and tax specialists. You will be required to lead interviews with the senior and lead technical personnel at our clients across a wide range of different industries to help identify the scientific and technological aspects of their R&D projects that qualify for R&D tax relief. You will play an active role in writing and reviewing reports of clients’ R&D projects and taking part in extensive client communication.

As well as working directly with existing clients, you will also be offered the chance to support business development opportunities and cross-sector claims.

Your key responsibilities

• Working as an effective member of a project team, exhibiting strong communication skills and be able to work collaboratively with other team members of different skill sets
• Writing and reviewing compelling technical project reports to bring out the key technical factors of client projects to support R&D tax claims
• Take a leading role in interaction with clients' senior technical and engineering staff in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of the projects undertaken and identify how aspects of projects meet the R&D Guidelines
• Undertaking data analysis and calculation to quantify project expenditure
• Application of advanced problem-solving skills and critical thinking to apply to project execution and delivery
• Building and maintaining relationships with clients to provide high levels of client service
• Responsible for high-quality delivery of advice and solutions to major clients, ensuring management of risk and reputation
• A keen desire to adapt and flex existing knowledge to different sectors and build on core capabilities

Skills and attributes for success

• A strong interest in science, technology, and engineering problems
• You have industry-based experience in dealing with technological challenges faced by industry professionals, such as engineering design, experimental process, the development or improvement of manufacturing processes, development of new products and improvement to existing products
• You have the ability to swiftly adapt to and learn about different industry sectors – such as automotive, aerospace, civil, defence, food & drink, life sciences, electronics, and have strong business acumen
• You can interact readily with other technical professionals, have great interpersonal skills and excel in producing a concise summary of information
• Strong attention to detail and first-time accuracy is essential
• Interest in project and company finances and the application of tax treatment

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Degree qualified - Science, technology, or engineering
• Science, technology, or engineering industry experience (2+ years)
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and a collaborative approach to management
• The flexibility to constantly learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Previous R&D tax experience is not required, but is advantageous

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

What we offer

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:

• Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership:We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Apply now.

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