Director International Tax Transaction Service jobs at Ey in United Kingdom, London

What we look for

We’re interested in professionals with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so we look for people who will take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. 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.You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note:Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.

Your key responsibilities

• Support senior members of the team in building and maintaining tax relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service
• Support senior members of the team in building relationships both within the firm and externally with clients, identifying opportunities and managing expectations
• Contribute to winning new work by proactively managing existing clients and contribute to winning new clients
• Support the senior members of the team in managing the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
• Responsible for day-to-day delivery of client liaison

Skills and attributes for success

What we look for

• Relevant Tax experience within VAT
• Strong Tax technical skills and keen to develop further
• Ability to build strong client relationships
• Excellent communicator in range of situations both written and oral
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out an effective review and know when to refer upwards
• Client focused and commercially aware
• Team player with ability to build effective relationships at all levels

• UK VAT specialist experience from the profession or in-house team

Ideally, you’ll also

• Ideally ATT / ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification. Formal qualifications are not mandatory, so please reach out if you have relevant experience

Our Tax Reporting practice within the UK Tax Technology and Transformation team will give you the opportunity to further develop your skills while assisting our clients in dealing with the operational challenges that their world class tax functions are facing today. You will be working with clients to improve the operational effectiveness and efficiency of their tax functions and assist them to better connect with executive management.

This is an area that has seen plenty of recent growth and investment – and you will see that reflected in your career. The field of taxation is constantly changing as new laws, regulations and technologies are created, and this is your opportunity to be part of that development.

Your Key Responsibilities

We are looking for strong candidates with experience of working within direct tax (in-house or professional services) and a keen interest in technology. Day to day responsibilities include:

• Lead client design session supporting with the development of the operating models for Group reporting requirements.
• Manage projects related to the implementation of tax technology solutions, ensuring alignments with the IFRS/USGAAP tax requirements.
• Develop and maintain relationships with clients, providing high-quality consultancy and support on tax technology related matters.
• Drive the automation of tax processes to improve efficiency, reduce errors and ensure compliance with changing tax laws and standards.
• Mentor and coach junior staff, providing regular feedback and support to aid in their professional development.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Experience with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar and their tax/finance related modules.
• Have an interest and experience in improving the performance of tax functions, the demonstrated ability to team with and motivate others, and willingness to develop meaningful and influential relationships with clients and colleagues
• Taking ownership of assigned tasks and monitoring them until completion, including documenting requirements, configuration, testing, debugging, project profitability, and tax systems and process configuration
• Strong leadership ability, attention to detail, problem-solving skills, analytical abilities
• Identifying ways to automate manual tasks using existing financial or tax systems and emerging technologies
• Ability to work on deliverables from offshore teams (as needed) to deliver projects to time, cost and quality requirements
• Consolidating tax data to make analysis and planning more efficient
• Improving reporting capabilities to enhance our clients’ ability to evaluate risk and capitalize on opportunities
• Desire and demonstrated ability to provide leadership within a team

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 4+ years experience working within Tax Technology, Tax compliance or a related advisory role. (either in-house or professional services)
• A thorough understanding of Direct Tax compliance processes (Group Tax Reporting, Tax Accounting preferable)
• Familiarity of IAS12/ASC 740 reporting standards and direct experience in the calculation of income taxes (current and deferred taxes)
• Experience with tax reporting technologies in the market (ONESOURCE Tax Provision, Longview Tax, etc.)
• Exposure to accounting/finance/tax, tax or finance performance improvement, tax software development and/or implementation
• A strong interest in technology and its use in business processes
• Excellent communication and business writing skills
• Demonstrated ability to capture and synthesize business requirements
• A natural flair for problem solving and an entrepreneurial approach to work
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with exceptional client-serving consulting skills

Ideally, you may also have

• Experience in project management
• Experience implementing third-party tax reporting systems or configuration of Enterprise Performance Management systems for Group Tax Reporting
• Experience with data analytic tools such as Alteryx
• Experience of the Microsoft Power Platform suite, including Power Query and Power BI
• A basic knowledge of database development e.g. writing SQL statements
• ERP or EPM experience e.g. SAP, Oracle, OneStream, Tagetik etc

What We Look For

We are looking for knowledgeable technical professionals that are proactive and self-motivated who have a willingness to learn new skills and approaches to challenges that our clients are facing in today's climate. You will need to be an analytical thinker and problem solver who has the ability to come up with innovative solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on a wide range of regulatory issues across differing legal regimes around the world (including regimes such as the EU AI Act and NIS2, sanctions and global ESG and modern slavery regulations).
• Advise on the potential impact of regulations relevant to EY clients that may impact how EY provides services to them (such as the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act).
• Horizon scan for regulatory developments and proactively advise on potential compliance obligations and mitigation opportunities.
• Actively collaborate and positively team with fellow members of the Global GCO team and other internal functions to help drive regulatory compliance and efficiency.
• Instruct and work with external counsel.
• Contribute to internal guidance, best practices, and templates.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Legal qualification with at least 8 years PQE in a relevant regulatory area.
• Substantial experience advising on regulatory compliance and active involvement in supporting on regulatory change including on EU regulations/legislation. This may be within a global financial services organization (an added advantage though not essential).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience with working with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• In house experience (either on secondment or through an in house role) is an added advantage though not essential.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Strong team player with excellent negotiation and communication skills and cultural awareness.
• Proactive attitude and positive mindset, high degree of emotional intelligence, and demonstrated aptitude for resilience, flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing circumstances and dynamics.
• Interest and ability to positively team and collaborate effectively across geographic locations.
• Ability to grasp, understand, and effectively articulate and document complex legal and contractual principles.

What we look for

A self-starter, adept at responding promptly/juggling deadlines who actively looks to build relationships based on trust and confidence.

Your key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement ETL workflows using Informatica PowerCenter and Talend.
• Collaborate with business analysts and data architects to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Perform data extraction, transformation, and loading from multiple sources into target systems.
• Optimize ETL jobs for performance and reliability.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance with organizational standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve ETL issues in production and non-production environments.
• Document ETL processes, mappings, and workflows for maintainability.
• Ensure continual knowledge management and contribute to internal learning and development teams
• Building a quality culture.

Skills and attributes for success

• 3 –7 years of hands-on experience in ETL development with Informatica PowerCenter and Talend.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.).
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, data modeling, and performance tuning.
• Experience in handling large datasets and complex transformations.
• Familiarity with job scheduling tools and version control systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• BE/BTech/MCA/MBA
• In-depth understanding of data management and data migration concepts.
• Experience of working in minimum one Insurance domain projects with strong experience of data analysis, profiling.
• Very good understanding of the concepts and technology around data extraction, data migration, data transformation, data load, data profiling, data quality management and metadata management.
• More than one year of experience on ETL and Data migration/warehouse projects
• Good communication skills, proven ability and commitment to working collaboratively towards common goal.
• Possess effective planning and problem-solving skills.
• Multi-tasking attitude, equally comfortable operating from within both the technology & business environments.
• Focused on a quality outcome, excellent inter-personal skills and highly motivated.
• Business Rule Analysis and Design experience.
• knowledge on Data Modelling and UNIX/Shell scripting experience

Ideally, you’ll also have

Worked on at least one end to end migration project.

What we look for

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
• An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 1400 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.
• Opportunities to work with EY Advisory practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. 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

Your key responsibilities

• Building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service
• Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken.
• Identifying and driving opportunities –use your knowledge gained from other projects and from our knowledge sharing sessions and technical training to add input to projects and proposals.
• Building your own strong client and internal relationships - develop and use your relationship skills to create your own external and internal networks.
• Counsel and develop junior staff through delegation and on the job training.

Skills and attributes for success

What we look for

• 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

Ideally, you’ll also

• 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)
• Experience of working with financial services clients

You will have the opportunity to work with clients in the Financial Services industry as part of a globally integrated network of specialists with high quality economics, tax authority, legal, commercial and technology backgrounds. The work is technically challenging, creative and requires you to work closely with our clients’ businesses.

Your key responsibilities

• Ability to build and strong client relationships with evidence of go to market
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day management of delivery team
• Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
• Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training international 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 assignment

What we look for

• Ability to build strong client relationships and commercially aware.
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Strong practical and commercial experience having advised clients, or worked ‘in-house’
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Team player with ability to create, sustain and manage effective, inclusive teams

Ideally, you will also have

• Appropriate experience working within Financial Services particularly wealth and asset management, including real estate
• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
• ACA/ACCA/CA or comparable qualification; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course; or Law qualification. CTA (or breadth of knowledge and experience equivalent to CTA).