Partner Tax Litigation London 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality immigration advice and manage a diverse portfolio of client engagements.
• Ensure technical excellence and compliance with immigration regulations and EY risk policies.

• Build strong client relationships and proactively identify process improvements and opportunities. Manage engagement economics, including budgets, billing, and cash collection.
• Research and apply current immigration developments and policy changes to client solutions.
• Contribute to the development of internal training, communications, and service offerings.
• Support a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and exceptional client service.

About You

• Experienced immigration professional, ideally with expertise in UK Skilled Worker/GBM category.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational and project management abilities, able to manage multiple deadlines.
• High attention to detail with sound commercial and strategic judgment.
• Proficient in MS Office and immigration case management software.
• Client-focused, proactive, and solutions-oriented team player.

What We Offer

• Global Exposure: Work with international clients and collaborate across EY’s global network.
• Career Progression: Lead high-impact projects and shape your professional journey.
• Support & Coaching: Learn from industry leaders and receive ongoing mentoring.
• Flexible Working: Hybrid model (minimum two days in the office) with a focus on work-life balance.
• Total Rewards: Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and exclusive EY perks.
• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where you belong, feel valued, and can thrive.

To help create the best possible experience during the recruitment process, please let us know if you require any disability-related adjustments or accommodations.

The team support clients’ cross-border transactions assess their international tax strategies and provide a range of services supporting clients through the transfer pricing life cycle. As a member of this team, you’ll work on multidisciplinary projects helping clients develop integrated and far-sighted global strategies in the ever-changing regulatory environment.

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service
• Assist in winning work by proactively managing existing clients and contribute to winning new clients.
• Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business focused approach taken
• 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.
• 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
• 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

Skills and attributes for success

What we look for

• Client focused 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 more junior staff

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Strong transfer pricing technical skills
• Strategically and commercially aware
• Effective time management
• Degree or postgraduate degree essential
• ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training Course; or Law qualification; or CFA;or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget and time

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

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide world class levels of client service
• Assist in winning work by proactively managing existing clients and contribute to winning new clients.
• Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and commercial/deal focused approach taken
• 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
• Client focused and strategically and commercially aware
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• 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 through managing junior staff development and assignments

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Experienced UK tax practitioner with reviewing skills and expertise in Restructuring Tax
• ACA/ATT/CTA or international equivalent / Law qualification
• Degree qualified

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget and time
• Experience in UK tax compliance

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.
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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.

General Information

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Recruiter: Matthew Creane

If you are currently working in practice or industry accounting and would like to know more about what a career in EY could look like for you, please get in touch.

To qualify for these role you must have

• Qualified Accountant - e.g., ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA(SA) qualified OR equivalent
• Minimum 3.5 years assurance experience
• Minimum 2 years as an audit senior manager
• Experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) & US GAAP
• Minimum of 18 months' left on your valid Passport to facilitate Work Permit & Visa applications (where applicable)

Ideally, you'll also have

• High Technical Knowledge
• Clearly demonstrate an on-going commitment to personal and professional development through continuing education and development.
• Experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with US GAAP experience preferable

What we look for

• Proven track record of outstanding performance.
• Worked on Large PLC/ Multinational clients within the Industrial, Commercial & Technology sector.
• Ability and willingness to work primarily on challenging and complex projects

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive benefits 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.

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include:

• Hybrid Working
• Pension/Discounted Health Insurance
• Web Doctor
• Purchase of Additional Annual Leave
• Free Gym Membership
• Travel Pass
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Referral Bonuses & Recognition Awards
• Tech MBA paid by EY

Career Progression

• When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one.
• Continuous learning, where you can develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are - success is defined by you, we will provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture, you will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• We have embraced Hybrid working at EY adding greater flexibility and autonomy to the roles of our employees.