Senior Manager, Real Estate Tax Advisory, London

Join to apply for the Senior Manager, Real Estate Tax Advisory role at EY. We’ve got an exciting opportunity to join our international tax services team, who are recognised as being leaders in international tax advisory and cross‑border M&A. You will be working with some of the largest corporations in the world advising them on their international tax planning and M&A deals.

Working within our International Transaction Tax Service (ITTS) Practice focusing on the RHC offering, you will be collaborating with sector‑leading Partners who are well known and respected in the market. You’ll also be part of a high‑performing team that has advised on many high‑profile and market‑leading transactions over the past few years. It is a great time to join the ITTS team, which has expanded exponentially in recent years and is continuing to grow.

With a number of disrupting factors in the market at the moment, you’ll be at the forefront of helping our clients navigate the market challenges on an international scale.

The opportunity

The combination of experience and innovation in our team makes it one of the most exciting places to work in tax, as well as a place where you can learn and develop into a skilled and renowned international tax adviser, working with UK/overseas MNCs, lawyers, and banks on complex and exciting projects. Our international tax professionals will work on a variety of projects focused on helping clients develop and execute their international tax strategy, including:

• Expansion into new markets
• Pre‑transaction reorganisations and post‑transaction integration
• Legal structure rationalisation
• Operating model redesign
• Optimisation of capital structure and financing
• Optimisation of intellectual property ownership and reliefs
• Managing the risk arising from global law change such as BEPS, and lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in the UK and globally

Your Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients, winning work proactively and contributing to winning new clients
• Management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business focus approach taken
• Overall responsibility for the 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
• Develop junior staff through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Client focus and commercially aware
• Strong international and UK tax technical skills and understanding
• Commitment to building strong client relationship management with the ability to develop quality outputs to clients
• Negotiation skills and handle challenges
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Strong business acumen with the ability to manage engagement financial results
• 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 the ability to create and sustain effective teams
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day-to-day delivery
• Change orientated and innovative with a flexible approach to ways of working and adoption of new technologies

To qualify for the role you must have

• ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training Course; or Law qualification
• Degree qualified
• Experienced corporate tax practitioner
• Proven ability to read and interpret existing and new tax statute
• Experience of working in a client-facing role in UK tax or similar jurisdiction
• Experience of working within the Real Estate sector
• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget

What We Offer

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching, and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

About EY: As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise, and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better.