At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a dynamic team in delivering high-quality indirect tax consulting projects.
- Company: Join EY, a global leader in tax and consulting services.
- Benefits: Flexible work environment, world-class training, and diverse culture.
- Other info: Opportunities for career growth in a supportive, collaborative setting.
- Why this job: Shape your future while making a real impact on clients' businesses.
- Qualifications: Significant VAT experience and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.
The opportunity
EY Tax is a market leader, renowned for delivering sustainable growth and empowering our people to shape their own careers. Our diverse, collaborative team advises on high-profile transactions, combining technical expertise, innovation and a genuine focus on continuous development. Join us to work on challenging, multi-country projects in a supportive, dynamic environment where your impact truly matters. Our Indirect Tax professionals provide pragmatic commercial support, so clients improve their day-to-day management of indirect taxes. This includes advising on transactions, improving working capital, reducing errors, reducing costs and ensuring indirect taxes are handled correctly. They advise how indirect taxes such as value added tax (VAT), or goods & services tax (GST) impinge on the client’s supply chain and financial and accounting systems. We are looking for a Manager to help us grow further our Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction VAT team.
Your key responsibilities
- 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
Skills 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
What we offer you
At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.
Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.
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Manager, Indirect Tax, London employer: EY Studio+ Nederland
At EY, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that fosters personal and professional growth. Our London office is a hub for innovative thinking and collaboration, where you will have the opportunity to work on high-profile projects while receiving comprehensive support and training to advance your career. With a commitment to empowering our employees and a focus on building a better working world, EY is the ideal place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment in the field of indirect tax.
