Technical Lead - Tax Technology Innovation Hive jobs at Ey in United Kingdom, London

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

Director - Open to flexible working

You will be working with some of the leading international tax 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 large, complex and high profile international tax issues over the past few years.

It is a great time to join the ICTA team who have expanded significantly 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 complex international tax landscape.

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

• M&A deal structuring

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

Supporting clients with tax controversy

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients, winning work proactively and contributing to winning new clients and growing existing ones
• Management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding advisory projects, ensuring technical excellence and a practical / commercial focus
• Overall responsibility for quality of client service
• Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from, and work with other parts of EY UK and globally to identify and capitalise on opportunities.
• Build and develop client engagement teams, and 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 UK tax technical skills and experience, with a particular focus on areas relevant in a cross-border context, such a CFCs, anti-hybrid rules, loan relationships, intellectual property and Pillar 2.
• Commitment to building strong client relationships with ability to deliver quality outputs to clients
• Negotiation skills and ability to handle complexity and nuance
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to grow market
• Strong business acumen with ability to manage engagement financial results
• Effective time management, and ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations
• Enthusiastic team player with ability to create, develop and sustain high performing teams
• Change orientated and innovative with flexible approach to ways of working and adoption of new technologies

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Strong tax technical skills and significant experience of providing tax advice to large MNCs on complex, cross-border issues
• Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA
• 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.
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Assurance, Technology Risk (Manager) (Multiple Positions) (1651219), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Dallas, TX.

Full time employment, Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Engineering, Mathematics, Accounting, Finance, International Relations or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate related experience working as an IT auditor or IT risk adviser for a public accounting firm, a professional services firm, or within industry.

Alternatively, will accept a Master’s degree in Business, Management, Engineering, Mathematics, Accounting, Finance, International Relations or a related field and 4 years of related experience working as an IT auditor or IT risk adviser for a public accounting firm, a professional services firm, or within industry.

Must have 3 years of work experience applying relevant IT audit skills in audit engagements as a Financial Audit IT integration leader on own engagement.

Must have 3 years of experience in a supervisory/managerial capacity focused on financial audit IT in public company audits.

Must have 3 years of experience supervising audit professionals performing the IT portion of the audit (IT general controls, ERP, application knowledge, system implementation, audit knowledge, and similar).

Must have 3 years of experience supervising the integration with the financial audit team on application controls, IPE, and IT dependent manual controls.

Must be eligible to obtain CPA, CA, CISA, CIPP, CGEIT, CIA, CISSP, CISM, CIPT, CRISC, CMA and/or relevant certification within one year of hire.

Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on yourperformance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary for this job is $115,450.00 per year. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

• 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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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.

The objectives of the SaaS CoE are twofold:

• Operational management of Tax and Law SaaS solutions
• Sales enablement and support to drive the market success of these solutions

In joining the SaaS CoE, you will have an exciting opportunity to contribute to the ongoing success of this new business unit, becoming deeply embedded in the operational management of the SaaS CoE and thus ensuring the smooth running of the technology solutions that it supports.

Your key responsibilities

Our global reach and combination of tax, tech, and client knowledge make us the perfect platform to build your career.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Assist the GTES Product Owner in defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product
• Research current and emerging technologies, market trends and competitor capabilities
• Provide market insights to and representing GTES before various stakeholder groups
• Assist in developing performance measures to assess the success of products and features and resolve vital enhancements
• Support global product governance by contributing to steering decks and driving actions against a plan
• Support product plan execution, collaborating with the GTESProduct Owner, engineering, product and other teams
  • Handle the Technical Product and Functional Product Leads for GTES, as well as junior product team members
  • Oversee high-level requirements gathering by the Functional Product Lead, ensuring the accurate maintenance of a product backlog, prioritizing features based on business alignment and customer feedback
  • Oversee high-level requirements gathering by the Technical Product Lead to define and deliver the technical requirements, for product deployment and support
  • Support the engineering team by defining the product roadmap, managing and prioritizing development activity, and working with the Technical Product and Functional Product Leads to QA development work
  • Maximize value delivered by the engineering team by ensuring effective and timely delivery
  • Collaborate with the Scrum Master and Business Analysts to plan sprints, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
  • Support local countries with high-level stakeholder management on requirements gathering and testing
• Works closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met
  • Support the sales teams with advice of new product features and technical changes, and participating in and running product r

Skills and attributes for success

We are looking for people with excellent communication abilities with relevant experience in a commercial position.

• Confidence and maturity to work effectively with senior leaders across the Business Unit and beyond
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, as well as executive presence
• Skilled at explaining technical information in a manner which is understood by non-technical clients
• Knowledge of the software development cycle and project management methodologies
• Proven relationship management abilities to work effectively with clients, project teams and vendor across multiple geographies
• Flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change
• Strong decision-making ability, balancing what is right with what is realistic
• Ability to work and team with a multitude of different people from various parts of the Business and IT
• Possess a high energy level, sense of urgency, decisiveness, and an ability to work well under pressure

To qualify for the role you must have

• 7+ years experience in a commercial role within a large global organization ideally within the tax or technology market
• Certifications in Product Management, Portfolio Management and Project Management would be beneficial to performing this role
• Strong understanding of the electronic invoicing landscape and related technologies
• A familiarity with Indirect Taxes would be advantageous, but not essential
• In-depth knowledge of Agile development methodology
• Strong knowledge of MS Office applications

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Work experience in a professional services industry
• Familiarity of EY internal processes would be an advantage
• Prior experience on other products would be helpful
• Certifications in Microsoft technology stack would be advantageous to this role

What we look for

• Ability to prioritise overall deadlines and provide supervision of junior members of distributed team
• Provides formal and informal coaching on-the-job to grow junior team members to their full potential
• Delivers results through individual contribution and ability to lead junior team members
• Solid influencing skills are required to work with other departments or leaders and encourage effective feedback for all team members with partners beyond the team
• Coaches, mentors, develops less experienced product managers, product analysts!

Your key responsibilities

• Deliver Expert Employment Tax Advice:Research and provide written guidance on Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT), Payroll Tax, PAYG Withholding, Superannuation Guarantee, and Salary Packaging, while collaborating with other business units to offer specialist insights.
• Ensure Compliance and Quality:Review and prepare annual FBT returns, payroll tax filings, and superannuation guarantee calculations, leveraging technology and big data to support compliance and uncover actionable insights.
• Engage and Educate:

Skills and attributes for success

• Eager to work as part of a national team supporting clients across diverse industries with complex tax and payroll compliance issues, including opportunities to work onsite within client businesses.
• Strong Technical and Analytical Skills:Brings 1–3 years of employment tax experience with large multinational organizations, excellent MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel skills, and proven confidence in handling data and performing detailed analysis.
• Adaptable and Growth-Oriented:

What we offer you

• Career development:At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences
• Flexible work arrangements:Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.

• A comprehensive benefits package

• We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

Acknowledgement of Country

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