EY Financial Services Tax - Senior Advisor 

United Kingdom, England, London 

733645686

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, 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

• Contributing to building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service
• Help managing the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
• Identifying 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

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

• Experience as a tax practitioner with reviewing skills
• 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 (desirable)
• An undergraduate/postgraduate degree or with equivalent work experience

Ideally, you will also have

• Previous people management experience

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-merger reorganisations and post-merger integration
• Organisational structure rationalisation
• Business model redesign
• Optimisation of capital structure and financing
• Managing the risk arising from global law change such as BEPS
• Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in UK and globally

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.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 and coaching 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