Your people responsibilities:
- Enthusiastic 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 training and retaining tax professionals)
Your client responsibilities
- High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
- Manage indirect tax consideration as it relates to large and complex M&A transactions
- 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 opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients and winning new clients
- 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 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 and in virtual and in-person environments
To qualify for the role you must have
- Significant experience in VAT from an accountancy or in-house team
- ATT / ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:
- Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you