EY Indirect Tax Senior Manager - Edinburgh/ Newcastle 

United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh 

180062746

Indirect Tax Senior Manager - Edinburgh/ Newcastle

The role can either be based in Edinburgh or Newcastle.

Your people responsibilities:

• 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

Your client responsibilities

• 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

Skill and attributes for success

• 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

To qualify for the role you must have

• 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