Your key responsibilities
Contract management
- Support a number of global compliance contracts, some with client interface and some in a supervisory service delivery role
 - Proactively managing service delivery risk across those contracts through the use of issue and risk logs and the implementation of escalation processes
 - Developing and maintaining relationships with key contract stakeholders (internal and external) across multiple jurisdictions, and ensuring effective and timely communication
 - Help manage contract governance including adherence to agreed process and procedures
 - Help manage contract reporting against service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) ensuring timely resolution of issues
 - Provide guidance to juniors and support to peers, colleagues and clients on contractual issues, and oversee local fee and scope negotiations
 - Focus on the successful delivery of projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business approach taken
 
Quality and Risk Management
- Supporting the Global Engagement leader on Quality & Risk Management (QRM) matters, overseeing implementation and adherence to agreed processes, procedures and timetables
 - Liaising with Global and Tax QRM and legal teams in the resolution of client service management issues
 - Providing support to help maintain the specified contractual framework and supporting agreements for all engagements
 
Detailed scoping and process assessments
- Review and suggesting improvements to compliance and reporting processes considering data sources, hand-off points and controls
 
Business development and proposal assistance
- Working with the Global Engagement Leader to support pursuit and proposal activities, in response to client RFPs. This includes running global pricing exercises and being a part of EY’s presentation team at client presentations
 - Support development of client business case for change
 - Identify opportunities for additional EY services and / or extensions to EY outsourcing services for existing EY clients
 
Compliance methodology
- Sharing successful tools, techniques and approaches with other team members;
 - Project managing small business development projects
 
Skills and attributes for success
- Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
 - Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
 - Business development skills, able to identify new opportunities to sell work
 - Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
 - Some experience of coaching and developing more junior staff
 - Change orientated with flexible approach
 - Innovative mindset with a focus on problem solving
 
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Experience in Corporate Tax, Indirect Tax or accountancy from a professional services firm or in-house team
 - ACA / CA / ATTI/CTA/Tax Inspectors or a breadth of knowledge equivalent to a tax specialist qualification is not essential but welcome
 - Proven project management skills, and an ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget. A PRINCE2 qualification or similar would be beneficial.
 - Experience of working on international projects
 - Process and technology design skills
 - An undergraduate or post-graduate degree
 
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Project management skills, plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
 - Experience working on multi-jurisdictional projects
 
What we look for
- Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
 - Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
 - Strong project management skills
 - Ability to work across a range of projects and clients often with tight deadlines
 - Innovative mindset with a focus on problem solving