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Tax Advisor - Private Client Services – Advisory

The EY Private Client Services team in Belfast act for and advise an extensive range of high net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, private equity principals, high profile professional partnerships and their senior executives, and onshore and offshore trust structures. The services that we deliver include, but are not limited to;

• personal tax transaction and reorganisation advice;
• residency advice on leaving or coming to the UK;
• advice on optimisation of wealth from a tax perspective, and
• estate and succession tax advice.

Your key responsibilities

• Working as part of a team on the efficient management and delivery of a portfolio of private client tax advisory projects.
• Assist the senior team with the successful delivery of tax advisory projects, ensuring technical excellence and a practical and business driven approach is maintained.
• Build and foster relationships with clients and colleagues, providing excellent client service, identifying opportunities and managing expectations.
• Provision of development support to junior members of the team through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring.

Skills and attributes for success

• Personal advisory tax experience. Strong tax technical skills and keen to develop their advisory skill set further.
• Ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budgets and fees.
• Ability to integrate with new teams quickly and build effective relationships at all levels.
• Confident communicator with good relationship skills and ability to manage client expectations.
• Client focused and commercially aware.
• Excellent communicator in range of situations both written and oral.
• Ability to identify areas of risk and know when to refer upwards.

Qualifications

• CTA part qualified and ATT qualified with relevant personal tax advisory experience; or
• ACA/CA/ACCA qualified with relevant personal tax advisory experience; or
• ATT qualified with a minimum of two years’ post-qualified relevant personal tax advisory experience

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.

Your key responsibilities

• • Contribute to the design and delivery of Microsoft Fabric solution architecture for complex client projects.
  • Support diverse project teams working across Microsoft Fabric, including data engineers, data architects, and Power BI developers, delivering end-to-end modern data platform solutions.
  • Implement Fabric-based data artefacts using Lakehouses, Data Warehouses, Data Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, and Notebooks in line with client needs and industry best practices.
  • Guide teams on best practices in Direct Lake mode, OneLake shortcuts, delta tables, and efficient data layer separation (Bronze, Silver, Gold).
  • Implement Fabric-native data governance to ensure compliance, privacy, and data protection across domains.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including cloud engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders—to translate business needs into robust Microsoft Fabric-based technical designs.
  • Assist with data architecture assessments for legacy or cloud-based environments and develop Fabric-based migration roadmaps, including data modelling, ingestion, transformation, and reporting.
  • Understand CI/CD processes for Fabric using Azure DevOps Git integration, including workspace branching strategies, pull requests, build and release pipelines.
  • Stay current with Microsoft Fabric product evolution, industry trends, and data architecture patterns.

To qualify for the role;

• • Experience in data architecture and engineering, including experience leading enterprise-scale cloud data projects.
  • Proven experience in deploying solutions within Microsoft Fabric.
  • Solid understanding of data modelling techniques across transactional, analytical, and semantic layers; strong hands-on experience using delta lake formats and Fabric Lakehouse/SQL endpoints.
  • Experience building and orchestrating Data Pipelines and Dataflows Gen2, including incremental loads, change data capture, and medallion architecture design.
  • Strong leadership and client-facing communication skills.
  • Experience managing teams and mentoring junior employees.

The following will be an advantage;

• • Consulting experience, with the ability to build trusted advisor relationships and provide both strategic and hands-on implementation guidance.

What we look for

We’re interested in candidates with a genuine creative vision 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 auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, 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

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Market leading growth

• We're a business with market- leading growth, and this is set to continue. We have a clear vision, big ambitions and a bolder purpose than ever before. It all means growth and opportunities for you and our clients.

Entrepreneurial spirit

• Entrepreneurial spirit delivers market-leading growth. That’s why we empower our people to innovate and act with flexibility. We’re developing people to lead, manage and deliver ambitious growth, and tackle the most complex, critical and rewarding challenges for our clients.

Inclusivity

• The success of EY, our clients and our people, is built on having employees from a huge variety of backgrounds working together in high-performing teams. We're creating the working culture of tomorrow: it's more flexible, more inclusive, globally connected and driven by a purpose - to build a better working world.

Consulting Services – Finance Transformation

Our Finance Transformation team delivers globally integrated Finance service offerings to our clients, including:

• Agile Business Finance
• Enterprise Intelligence
• Global Business Services (GBS)
• Digital Finance Strategy and Operating Model

Your key responsibilities

Working in our Finance Transformation practice, you will:

• Work as part of a client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds. Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment.
• Deliver high-quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget. Foster relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes. Manage expectations of client service delivery.
• Cultivate and manage business development opportunities. Understand EY and its service lines and actively assess/present ways to serve clients. Develop and maintain long-term client relationships and networks.
• Contribute to PI Finance practice development specifically in the areas of operations, thought leadership, marketing activities and training
• Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge. Possess good business acumen. Remain current on new developments in Consulting services capabilities and industry knowledge.

Skills and attributes for success

• At least 5+ years of relevant experience including previous consulting experience
• Strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a finance/accounting, business or project related area
• MBA, ACCA/ACA/CIMA and/or PMP/Prince2 qualification
• Strong process improvement experience in one or two of the following areas:
• Transactional processing: Order to Cash; Procure to Pay; Record to Report
• Financial planning and analysis: Budgeting, Planning, and Reporting
• Financial reporting including value & performance management
• Finance process & automation

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;

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

You will be working alongside experienced financial due diligence professionals, where you will continue to develop your skills to perform financial due diligence alongside technical training in a range of situations and sectors. When working on projects you will almost always be working as part of a wider cross service line team.

Skills and attributes for success

• Commercial thinking and ability to analyse businesses at pace
• Be able to gather, verify and assess information to formulate views / conclusions
• Demonstrable experience in planning, preparing and reviewing deliverables in various forms including visualisations, written reports, presentations and discussions with the client
• Strong attention to detail with a logical and methodical approach
• Team working and communication skills

• A qualification in computer science, engineering or a highly numerative science

• Commercial experience and/or relevant industry or transaction experience
• Understanding of data analytics tools (Alteryx, PowerBI)
• A passion to provide high quality service to your clients

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Past experience of working in a transaction environment and a solid understanding of how Analytics can bring value throughout the transaction life cycle
• ACA (or equivalent) qualification or relevant other financial qualification
• Client facing experience from a professional services background
• Experience in VBA and SQL, though not essential

What we look for

What’s most important is that you’re dedicated to working with your colleagues as part of a high-performing team. You’ll need to thrive in picking up new skills as you go, so natural curiosity, a lot of questions and the confidence to speak up when you see something that could be improved are essential. If you’ve got the right combination of technical knowledge and communication skills, this role is for you.

You will be working alongside experienced financial due diligence professionals, where you will continue to develop your skills to perform financial due diligence alongside technical training in a range of situations and sectors. When working on projects you will almost always be working as part of a wider cross service line team.

Skills and attributes for success

• Commercial thinking and ability to analyse businesses at pace
• Be able to gather, verify and assess information to formulate views / conclusions
• Demonstrable experience in planning, preparing and reviewing deliverables in various forms including visualisations, written reports, presentations and discussions with the client
• Strong attention to detail with a logical and methodical approach
• Team working and communication skills

• A qualification in computer science, engineering or a highly numerative science

• Commercial experience and/or relevant industry or transaction experience
• Understanding of data analytics tools (Alteryx, PowerBI)
• A passion to provide high quality service to your clients

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Past experience of working in a transaction environment and a solid understanding of how Analytics can bring value throughout the transaction life cycle
• ACA (or equivalent) qualification or relevant other financial qualification
• Client facing experience from a professional services background
• Experience in VBA and SQL, though not essential

What we look for

What’s most important is that you’re dedicated to working with your colleagues as part of a high-performing team. You’ll need to thrive in picking up new skills as you go, so natural curiosity, a lot of questions and the confidence to speak up when you see something that could be improved are essential. If you’ve got the right combination of technical knowledge and communication skills, this role is for you.

We provide a consistent audit by assembling the right multi-disciplinary team to address the most complex issues, using a proven global methodology and deploying the latest, high quality auditing tools and perspectives. And because we understand that, to achieve your potential, you need a tailored service as much as a consistent methodology, we work to give you the benefit of our deep sector knowledge, our full subject matter knowledge and the latest insights from our work worldwide.Typical activities will include the following:

• Manage client relationships/expectations and develop client portfolio.
• Develop relations with existing clients in order to gather feedback on the quality of work delivered and to gain ideas for improvement of services delivered.
• Effectively manage audit teams and actively coach and develop team members
• Active involvement in the recruitment of staff
• Plan and manage own performance and development
• Develop technical expertise -both functional and industry
• Responsible for planning and managing assignments for compliance with all technical requirements including:
• Final technical review at all stages and for raising with partners all pertinent issues.
• Reviewing and approving for partner's signature all financial statements, opinions and reports and other deliverable documents for clients
• Ensuring management letters are constructive, commercially aware and demonstrate the firm's interest in the client's business.
• Obtaining consultation from experts on complex issues

Responsible for handling various assignments concurrently, including:
Pre Audit / other project:

• Preparation of audit project proposals, budgets, negotiations over fee and contract terms.

Audit field work:

• Monitoring audit progress including compliance with budgets and deadline.
• Ensuring that audit work is being allocated to team members on a level commensurate with their past experience
• Review of audit work papers and reporting to the relevant partner / director

Post Audit

• Adequate fee recovery, variance analysis, billing procedures and pursuing overdue accounts.
• Arrangement of closing meeting including preparation of support for agenda.
• Controlling preparation of final version accounts and reports.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Proven track record of outstanding performance.
• Worked on Large / Multinational clients
• Clearly demonstrate an on-going commitment to personal and professional development through continuing education and development.
• Qualified Accountant -e.g. ACA, ACCA, CPA qualified
• Minimum of 3 years relevant post qualification experience, including at least one in a role as an audit manager or with equivalent experience
• Ability and willingness to work primarily on challenging and complex projects
• Experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) & “new” UK GAAP
• An ability to manage projects and teams
• High Technical Knowledge
• Excellent commercial, management and organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Experience of working in a similar environment.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.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain long-term client relationships and networks including the development of relationships with team members across all EY practices to serve client needs
• Lead business development and client pursuit efforts with a strong insight of the market and past sales record of having won new business and developed existing accounts
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on Finance matters and stay abreast of emerging business and industry trends relevant to our clients’ business, such as Business Analytics, Robotic Process Automation and Managed Services
• Effectively lead delivery of client engagements, including:
  • Managing and motivating client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds
  • Drive high-quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget
  • Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes
  • Manage expectations of client service delivery
• Demonstrate expertise and in-depth technical capabilities in the areas of Finance operations and processes; Finance operating models; Global Business Services and Finance technologies
• Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment and play an active role in counselling and mentoring junior consultants within the organisation
• Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge and possess good business acumen

To qualify for the role;

• Significant relevant experience in the field. Key areas of experience include previous consulting experience and experience within Finance Reporting (VPM) and Finance Process & Automation
• MBA, ACCA/ACA/CIMA and/or PMP/Prince2 qualification
• Strong market focus with ability to identify and build new opportunities and client relationships and a proven ability to write and shape proposals
• Experience managing senior stakeholders, providing constructive challenge and robust advice to the senior management including C-suite. Development of strategic Finance and IT relationships with C-suite decision makers
• Experience across the complete lifecycle of Transformation projects, from concept through execution and ongoing operations
• Excellent Technology knowledge and experience, covering current trends and best practice Consulting, complemented by strong Finance functional and operations understanding
• Characteristics of a forward thinker and self-motivator that thrives on new challenges and adapts quickly to learning new knowledge
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage a team of junior consulting professionals

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;

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.