Indirect Tax Senior Manager - South jobs at Ey in United Kingdom, Bristol

Your people responsibilities:

• Enthusiastic manager with ability to create, support, sustain and lead effective teams
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day leadership of delivery team
• Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
• Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training indirect tax professionals
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments

Your client responsibilities

• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
• Business development skills - able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients and winning new clients.
• High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven 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
• 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

Skill and attributes for success

• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work

To qualify for the role you must have

• Significant experience in VAT Tax from a large accountancy or in-house team
• ATT / ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification

Ideally, you’ll also have

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

You’ll find a culture that prioritises learning, collaboration, and growth — providing you with the tools, support, and freedom to thrive and shape your career.

We provide a balanced mix of compliance and advisory services, covering areas such as:

• M&A structuring and due diligence
• Exit planning and succession
• Group reorganisations
• International expansion and structuring

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with both new and existing client

• Oversee the successful delivery of complex tax advisory, compliance, and reporting engagements
• Provide high-quality client service and maintain accountability for project quality
• Collaborate across specialist tax teams to provide holistic solutions
• Drive internal and external networking and business development
• Lead and contribute to team initiatives and strategic priorities
• Mentor, coach, and develop junior team members

About You

We are looking for someone who is:

• A seasoned corporate tax professional, with experience gained in practice or an in-house environment
• An effective relationship builder with strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills
• Commercially aware with a strong track record in business development
• Proactive, organised, and able to manage multiple priorities under pressure
• A confident communicator, both written and verbal
• A natural leader, team player, and coach, with experience managing and developing others
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and change-oriented environment

Additional strengths include:

• Degree qualified
• Strong technical expertise in corporate tax, including tax accounting/tax audit
• Demonstrated ability to interpret both existing and emerging tax legislation
• Strong project management skills, including budget management and deadline delivery

To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have:

• A professional qualification such as ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA, or
• Completion of HMRC’s full Tax Inspector Training Programme, or
• A relevant law qualification

What We Look For

• A collaborative and engaging team player
• A client-focused mindset with an ability to deliver high-quality outputs
• Flexibility, resilience, and adaptability to changing demands
• A passion for mentoring others and contributing to team success

What We Offer

• Global Exposure

• Career Progression– Develop new skills, lead high-impact projects, and shape your career path.
• Support & Coaching– Learn from industry leaders and receive mentoring at every stage.
• Flexible Working– We support hybrid working and encourage a healthy work-life balance (minimum two days in the office).
• Total Rewards Package– Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and exclusive EY perks.
• Inclusive Culture

belonging means more than just fitting in — it means thriving. Whoever you are, whatever your background, you are valued, supported, and empowered to be your best.

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients
• Proactive business development to help add value to existing clients and to develop opportunities to add value to new clients
• Management of the successful delivery of technically complex tax compliance and tax reporting engagements as well as delivery of any related advisory projects
• Involvement in tax audit engagements
• Providing exceptional client service
• Working in conjunction with other tax specialist teams
• Provision of development support to junior members of the team through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring
• Contribution to people initiatives

Skills and attributes for success

• Client driven and strategically and commercially aware
• Strong Corporate Tax technical skills
• Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
• 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

To qualify for the role you must have

• ACA / CA / CTA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Law qualification / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
• Strong tax technical skills
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to generate new work
• Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff

Ideally you’ll also have

• Project management skills to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, and monitor own budgets
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically, recognising both the tax technical and commercial implications of advice given.

What we look for

• Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
• Outgoing with good relationship skills
• Willingness to join and integrate into a successful and social team
• The ability to deliver quality output in a timely and efficient manner
• Energy and focus with an interest in taking on new challenges and developing yourself

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

Join EY’s Financial Services (FS) Tax practice as a Corporate Tax Manager and you will be helping clients meet the complex demands of today’s tax environment. You will help to manage relationships with some of our key local and national clients, both delivering services and introducing deep specialists to them as required. You will help them understand the tax implications of political, regulatory, accounting and law changes and build in sustainable strategies to deal with them. With a focus on tax compliance, tax reporting and audit you will also have the opportunity to get involved in advisory and transactions.

Your key responsibilities:

· Building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service

· Ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken on all projects

· Identifying and driving opportunities – use your knowledge gained from other projects and from our knowledge sharing sessions and technical training to add input to new projects and proposals

· Building 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 delivery of exceptional client service

· Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.

· 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:

· Project management experience

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 project 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 the opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop and challenge you so that you’re in the best place to further develop as 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.

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

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

Your Key Responsibilities

As a Restructuring Senior Executive, you'll manage the restructuring engagement by defining the engagement scope, in consultation with the Senior Manager / Partner, and deliver it in compliance with our policies and protocols.

You will also fit in to our positive learning culture from day one. You will bring your existing skills/knowledge and use that to coach others in the team where it is relevant and applicable to our work. You will be valued for your efforts to coach and counsel junior team members to help them develop.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Display a high level of commercial acumen, and an awareness of the key drivers of corporate failure or underperformance
• Have strong relationship building skills and be able to demonstrate empathy and understanding in challenging circumstances
• Proficient in detailed financial and commercial analysis and able to identify potential areas of sensitivity, ideally with advanced ability to use MS Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
• Able to identify key issues on assignments and suggest workable solutions
• Experienced in presenting findings clearly and concisely in reports and other deliverables to clients
• Assist in managing the financial aspects of engagements by organising staffing, tracking time costs and fees and communicating issues to project leaders
• Demonstrate professionalism and confidence to deal with a range of stakeholder groups and management teams
• Understand the capabilities of the firm, looking for opportunities to bring other specialists in to the restructuring assignment to achieve the best solution
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
• Desire to support the people development of TRS – contributing to or leading training courses, recruitment, and team / wellbeing activities.
• Desire to learn and be proactive in seeking formal and informal learning and training opportunities.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Professional accountancy qualification
• Previous experience of working within a Restructuring environment
• Experience of undertaking short term cash flow reviews, independent business reviews and formal corporate insolvencies
• The ability to build strong internal relationships within Restructuring and across other services, and can actively participate in business development
• Skills or desire to be a good manager of people – providing feedback and performance reviews to junior staff.
• Appreciation of the risks inherent in advising distressed businesses and their stakeholders

Ideally, you’ll also have

• CPCI qualification an advantage but not essential
• People development experience and can effectively supervise, coach and mentor staff
• Own network of contacts with work providers, or will understand how to build one

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:• 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.

We want actuaries who are not just great technicians but brilliant consultants. Actuaries who can build networks, spot industry trends and solve industry problems. If you are interested, please read on and apply.

The work we deliver is broad, and includes:

• Traditional reporting and audit support
• Mergers & acquisitions, both buy and sell side due diligence
• Capital management, including regulatory support such as Internal Model reviews/applications and strategic change, such as optimisation, Part VII transfers and independent expert support
• Transformation including accounting change and operational change
• Technology change including analytics, automation and ML/AI
• Investment advisory, supporting both insurers and asset managers interfacing with insurers

Your key responsibilities

• You will manage the delivery of key projects for our clients on a wide range of topics
• You will manage the operational metrics on projects, including working through resourcing, budgeting and scoping with the senior team and clients
• You will create innovative and commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational teams and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership
• You will contribute to and manage the delivery of improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives, consistently driving projects to completion making sure that the work delivered is best in class
• You will be expected to manage your time and be responsible for delivering to both clients and internal stakeholders, keeping a clear focus on anticipating and identifying risks, and escalate issues as appropriate
• Working closely with colleagues, you will create a positive learning culture and coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop
• You will contribute to the development of EY capabilities in technical areas and engage with clients regarding the application of these methodologies to their businesses
• You will collaborate with colleagues outside of UK Life Actuarial to deliver multi-disciplinary and cross-geographical work

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong technical / mathematical skills
• Good communication and project management skills
• Very keen attention to detail
• Good people skills, including ability to work effectively in teams, guiding more junior members of staff and influencing senior team members
• Able to work independently and to demonstrate initiatives and commitment to assigned projects

To qualify for the role you must have

• Successful track record in Life insurance, gained through working for a provider directly or a top tier consultancy or a specialist financial services consultancy
• A degree and Fellowship in the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (FIA) or other internationally recognized professional actuarial association
• Experience managing a team and running a range of projects, including being responsible for the project management

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.

Apply now.

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