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Senior Associate – Tax Reporting Technology

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

Depending on the needs of our clients and your work experience, there are many different types of projects you could be working on; identifying ways to improve operational effectiveness in tax functions, reviewing the process and controls that are in place including technology, looking at effectiveness of the various technology systems our tax clients use to increase automation and data quality throughout tax processes, assessing the overall risk to establish a proper control environment; designing and building custom tax applications. As a Senior, you would be working with leadership as a part of these exciting and impactful projects. In addition, you will be required to:

• Understand key tax reporting processes, technology, data, analytics, and risks/controls
• Establish relationships with peers and effectively balance projects across teams
• Support the team in planning and executing internal and external projects
• Grow technical skills and business knowledge through training and hands-on experience

Skills and Attributes for Success

• 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

• A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance and/or a master’s degree in Accounting, Tax Technology, Management Information Systems or related field and/or a minimum of 2 years of related work experience
• 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
• A working knowledge of IAS12 or ASC740
• 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.

Skills and attributes for success

Client Management and Business Development:

• Develop/maintain productive relationships with client management including C Suite executives.
• Develop new business development initiatives, go to market campaigns, sales sprints, leading end-to-end bid processes, engagement delivery and knowledge management with a proven experience of achieving sales targets greater than £1m per year.
• Stay informed of the client's industry, and recognise key performance drivers, business trends, and emerging technical/industry developments.
• Strong problem solving skills to support clients on a comprehensive range of issues in relation to financial crime, fraud, regulatory and compliance, litigation and other adverse events in the Financial Services industry across Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance and Wealth and Asset Management sectors.

Engagement Delivery and People Management:

• Lead complex Data and AI-led assignments, review the work prepared by the engagement teams to ensure that it meets EY’s quality standards and the client’s expectations.
• Monitor engagement progress to manage and mitigate risks and resolving any issues that may arise during the project. Ensure successful completion of project objectives within timescales and budget.
• Direct management of senior client stakeholders, investigators, internal and external auditors, lawyers and regulatory authorities during sensitive and sometimes adversarial situations.
• Lead the development of training, recruiting, resourcing projects, and/or other practice-wide needs to create a positive work and learning culture.
• Define best practices, processes, and standards to ensure realisation of measurable improvement in value, effectiveness, efficiency and quality of services delivered to clients.

To qualify for the role you must have

Extensive deep expertise in:

• Financial Services industry, focused on financial crime, forensics, fraud, legal and regulatory compliance
• End to end data engineering and data science life cycle including data discovery, ETL, data analysis/machine learning, data visualisation/reporting and latest Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies
• Leading large and complex data and AI-driven programmes and innovating reusable tech solutions through problem solving
• Developing and mentoring data engineering and data science teams

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Previous Big 4 and large consulting firms experience is an advantage.

What we look for

We’re not just looking for strong technical skills – we’re interested in people that can nurture relationships, both internal and external, and are committed to intimately understanding our clients’ needs. If you’re looking to become part of elite group of data engineers and data scientists where you’ll make a measurable difference across some of the most prestigious businesses around, this role is for you.

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.

Please note;

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. 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. Read more about our commitment to diversity& inclusiveness

Senior - Private Capital Transactions, International Tax

In this dynamic and fast-moving environment, individuals apply their skills to a variety of transactions. With a truly entrepreneurial spirit there is the flexibility to shape your career in particular sectors or areas of the M&A landscape or to get experience across the spectrum.

The Private Client Transaction Tax team deals with private equity clients as well as specifically focussing on the areas of the M&A market that are developing the quickest. Our flexibility and speed to market means that we have grown each year throughout the downturn – in order to take advantage of the current opportunities in the market we need to continue to recruit the best talent.

In this team you will get wide-ranging experience in all the core areas of transactional work – including corporate deals, private equity, infrastructure and clean-tech, distressed debt and turnaround transactions and restructuring.

As deal advisers, Private Client Transaction Tax team members not only gain good UK tax technical experience but also gain a commercial understanding of what is important to our clients in a deal context. As a large part of PCT work is cross-border, you will also have an early introduction to international structuring techniques and overseas tax regimes.

Your key responsibilities

You will contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of tax services to the client, building and maintaining tax relationships with clients to provide high levels of client service.  You’ll contribute to winning new work by proactively managing existing clients and ensure technical excellence and a practical/business focus approach.

Skills and attributes for success

• Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly

• Outgoing with good relationship skills and the ability to deliver quality output

• Keen to develop further

• Ability to build strong client relationships

• Excellent communicator in range of situations both written and oral

• Ability to build effective relationships at all levels

To qualify for the role you must have

• Degree Qualified

• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically

What we look for:

• You’ll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues so that you can better advise our clients. 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 develop you tax career.

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:

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

• Treasury systems design, select and implementation: you will play a pivotal role providing specialist advice in relation to the design of the future treasury function, developing transformation plan, managing Treasury Management System implementation from initiation to completion.
• Corporate Treasury Advisory and Consulting: maturity assessments; improvement and treasury transformation projects; controls and governance reviews; cash flow forecasting, cash flow management and liquidity optimisation; bank account rationalisation, banking rfp, financial due diligence support.
• EY Audit Support: Providing independent expert knowledge to EY Audit clients via EY Audit teams on financial instrument valuations and accounting, hedge accounting, expected credit loss allowance calculations and incremental borrowing rate calculations.
• Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS): directly advising non-EY Audit clients on how they should be accounting for financial instruments in terms of IFRS 9, 13 and 16 and FRS 102.

• Actively establish, maintain, and strengthen internal and external relationships and networks.
• Manage client engagement risk and supervise the team to ensure client deliverables are met.
• Provide subject matter expertise to clients on industry best practices and emerging trends.
• People and performance management, coaching junior colleagues throughout the performance year

Skills and attributes for success

Colleagues and clients from a diverse array of backgrounds will look to you first for answers, so you’ll be a prominent contact when it comes to resolving complex issues. You will have the team behind giving you their full support. As you build your knowledge and experience, you’ll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and teams on resolutions that will impact entire engagements. Your technical skills will be stretched and tested as you broaden your knowledge of corporate treasury practices, systems, and solutions. You'll also be introduced to career challenges that will take you into exciting new professional territory.

To qualify for the role you must have

• One of the following:
• Fully qualified chartered accountant e.g. ACCA, ACA, CA, CPA, ICAS, or international equivalent, with professional external audit experience; OR
• Hold a Treasury qualification (ACT, AMCT, CFA) and have experience working in a Corporate Finance or Treasury role; OR
• Degree level education or international equivalent (preferably in an Accounting/Finance related subject)
• Treasury Management System certification: Kyriba, FIS, Gtreasury, ION, SAP, etc
• Relevant professional Treasury experience e.g. Corporate Treasury, hedge accounting, or valuations experience, or within a treasury or financial risk system software vendor
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ideally you’ll also have

• The ability to assess business practices and articulate gaps and opportunities for improvement compared to typical industry practices
• Experience and understanding of treasury operations, including treasury systems (such as SAP S/4HANA), cash management, financial risk management, funding and debt management, bank relationship management
• Experience and understanding of treasury governance, processes risks and controls
• Knowledge of accounting and valuations of financial instruments (IFRS, UK GAAP or equivalent)
• Demonstrated interest in Financial Markets, Corporate Treasury, and/or financial risk modelling
• The ability to explain specialised concepts to non-technical audiences

What we look for

We’re interested in motivated and collaborative professionals with a genuine interest in learning and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about developing your career with us and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

What we offer

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.
• 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.

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.

You will get to experience first-hand and learn more about the career paths you can pursue through a number of short format workshops developed by the different service lines. Take this opportunity to better understand our specialist areas and gain more understanding about the work we do to help our clients.

• Be curious: Look into current topics in the economic, auditing practices, tax and consulting sectors.
• Make a list of all open questions regarding your career planning that are important to you.
• Be open: Together we will think "out of the box" and question the status quo.

L3 Resource Deployment Manager – FS Assurance

This is a partnering role where you will help influence and manage the supply, demand and deployment of approximately two hundred client servers. You will manage a small offshore team who will be responsible for the workforce planning e.g. mix of skills, capabilities, off-shore solutions, future workforce operating models and workforce plans to realise the ambitions of our service line.

You will use a commercial mind-set to understand and monitor business performance and the issues and challenges facing the practice. Your focus will be working closely with senior stakeholders to meet financial and non-financial objectives, as well as overseeing and ensuring that resource requirements for our engagement teams are met, optimising the utilisation of resources, improve performance and ensure Operational Excellence is maintained at all times. This is in conjunction with ensuring our people are provided with the best experiences to drive their careers.

You’ll build networks and work closely with stakeholders across Core Business Services and within your Service Line (e.g. Operations/Finance/Talent). You’ll also support in various initiatives such as the roll out of new technologies and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in relation to deploying engagement teams.

Deployment

• Delivering end to end deployment solutions to the client facing business.
• First point of contact for the Sub Service lines Leadership team managing all aspects of Supply demand and deployment.
• Monitor and escalate availability of resources and work proactively with colleagues from across all Service Lines, including UKI, to ensure utilisation is maximised.
• Analyse pipeline and proactively engage with pursuit teams to understand proposed resource model, ensuring resource requirements are known and can be met.

Headcount Management

• Supporting on headcount management and capacity planning, optimising the utilisation and chargeability of our client facing workforce
• Supporting on workforce planning to ensure the goals of long-term headcount management are met and aligned with FS Assurance objectives.

Experience Management

• Work with client facing staff to understand their skills and experiences for appropriate alignment to engagements.
• Liaise with the business, counsellors and HR to keep abreast of the development needs of all individuals in the group to ensure planning is aligned.

Business Impact

• Provide the Leadership team with insights on business performance and discuss trends, interventions and actions to improve results
• Forecast financial performance and utilisation levels on a weekly/monthly/quarterly and annual basis using Retain (Resource Management tool) and EY Financial Reporting tools.
• Required to prepare, analyse and present Management Information to senior stakeholders on budget vs. actual, headcount, deployment and wider Operational Excellence metrics such as utilisation, Retain accuracy, timesheets
• Understand and communicate key business developments which may affect upcoming performance through regular update with key stakeholders, including client serving leadership.
• Producing and maintaining various ad hoc and regular Management Information reports, interpreting and acting on results.

Skills and attributes for success

• A strong team player who is self-motivated, self-reliant and results orientated.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Strong commercial acumen – the ability to use data to tell a narrative

• Ability work under pressure to meet competing demands.
• Confident and resilient to deal with challenges from the business and client facing individuals.
• Strong stakeholder management capability to effectively influence Engagement Partners, Directors and Managers on deployment solutions.
• Business acumen to challenge the commercial drivers of deployment decisions and demonstrate wider cross Service Line perspective to deliver results.
• Problem solving and analytical mindset to resolve complex challenges.
• The ability to use conflict and clash resolution skills in a diplomatic and constructive manner
• Team management and leadership skills

To qualify for the role you must have

• Proven experience within Resource Management, or workforce management background, ideally within a professional services environment.

Ideally you’ll also have

• University degree or equivalent years of experience.

What we look for

• An experienced trusted business advisor with a passion for providing exceptional client service to your stakeholders whilst maintaining high levels of financial management. You will work closely with many stakeholders across the business so the ability to build strong and effective relationships will be critical.

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 MyReward 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.