EY Financial Services Tax - Senior 

Ireland 

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You will have the opportunity to work with clients in the Financial Services industry as part of a globally integrated network of specialists with high quality Big 4 tax, tax authority, legal, commercial and technology backgrounds. The work is technically challenging, creative and requires you to work closely with our clients’ businesses.

Your key responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of quality end to end solutions for our clients
• Have direct responsibility for supervising, supporting and mentoring junior team members, building them into high performing tax professionals
• Take an active role in both developing and delivering our Indirect Tax teams strategy and our day to day to operations

Skills and attributes for success

• Build and maintain relationships with clients, providing exceptional levels of client service through innovative solutions
• Negotiation skills, able to gain buy-in and handle challenges
• Strong commercial acumen with good business development skills - able to identify and convert opportunities by proactively managing existing client relationships and winning new clients
• Successful delivery of complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
• 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
• Excellent time managements skills with proven ability to effectively managing competing demands
• Strong problem solving skills with an ability to identify and address core issues

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
• A strong interest in using data analytics, process improvements and/or technology to transform tax
• A strong interest in finding better ways of carrying out tasks
• You will have worked either in a tax technical role, a tax technology role or a data analytics role either in practice or industry
• Ability to build strong client relationships and commercially aware
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Strong practical and commercial experience having advised clients, or worked ‘in-house’
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Enthusiastic team player with ability to create, sustain and manage effective, inclusive teams

Ideally, you will also have

• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
• Hands on experience of Alteryx, python, R or other data analytical/ visualisation tools will be a distinct advantage
• Experience working within Financial Services

The types of project you’ll contribute towards may include:

• Determining solutions to fit individual client requirements
• Development of new technology enabled solutions
• Delivery of pre-existing technology solutions
• End to end VAT process reviews to identify potential risks, and develop a target operating model

About EY

• EY is a global leader in Assurance, Tax, Transaction and Advisory services. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential. Our vision is to become the leading global professional services organisation by building a better working world.
• At EY our inclusive work environment means that everyone’s opinion is valued. This enables us to provide better advice and ideas to our clients, which in turn helps you develop as an individual to achieve your potential and make a difference. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.