Enthusiastic Senior Manager with ability to create, support, sustain and lead effective teams
Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day leadership of delivery team
Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training international tax professionals
Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments
Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
Business development skills - able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients and winning new clients.
High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
Overall responsibility of quality of client service
Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
Contribute to successfully extracting maximum value for both EY and clients from the tax services delivered whilst managing risk appropriately for both client and the firm
What we look for
Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
Significant experience in VAT from a professional services background or in-house team
ATT / ACA / CA or CTA would be an advantage but are not a requirement
The role would suit an existing Senior Manager, but we are happy to discuss the opportunity with an experienced, ambitious Manager
Ideally, you’ll also have
Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget