EY Financial Services Tax - Senior Manager 

United Kingdom, England, Leeds 

569475287

This role can be based out of any of our offices in Leeds, London and Manchester.

Join EY Tax as a tax professional and you’ll be helping international and multinational companies align their global tax position with their business strategy, in order to maintain competitive advantage and provide shareholder value

The ITTS team advises a wide range of clients across the Banking, Insurance and Wealth & Asset Management sectors, including having advised on many high-profile transactions and deals reported in the press over the past few years with top FS multinationals. Our partners are well known and respected in the market and the work is technically challenging, creative and requires you to work closely with our clients’ businesses.

This is a period of unprecedented change in the global international tax arena, which is resulting in huge demand in the market for specialised tax advisory services.

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

• 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

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 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
• Graduate/graduate calibre or equivalent work experience
• Previous people management experience

Ideally, you will also have

• Experience of coaching and developing more junior team members

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.

The types of project you’ll contribute towards may include

• Expansion into new markets
• Pre-transaction reorganisations and post-transaction integration
• Organisational structure rationalisation
• Business model redesign
• Managing the risk arising from international developments (e.g. BEPS, ATAD)
• Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in the UK and globally
• Buy-side and sell-side tax diligence and structuring services
• Optimisation of capital structure and financing
• Tax modelling

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 further develop as tax professional.

Whatever the projects and assignments you work on you can be confident that you’re contributing towards helping our clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service.