Senior Manager, Tax Energy, London

The opportunity combines experience and innovation in our team, making it one of the most exciting places to work in tax. You can learn and develop into a skilled and renowned international tax adviser, working with UK and overseas MNCs, lawyers, and banks on complex 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
• Cross border M&A services (DD and structuring) for corporate and private equity clients
• 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
• Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in the UK and globally

Your key responsibilities include:

• Building and maintaining 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 a practical/business focus approach
• Overall responsibility for the quality of client service
• Managing possible leads from other areas of the practice
• Building networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage
• Developing junior staff through effective supervision, coaching, and mentoring
• Significant involvement in the management of the team in terms of strategy and operations, as well as 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
• Negotiation skills and ability to handle challenges
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities
• Strong business acumen with the ability to manage engagement financial results
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm under pressure
• 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 Energy sector

Ideally, you’ll also have project management skills, the ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, and monitor your own budget.

What we look for:

You’ll proactively maintain your technical understanding by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues so that you can better advise our clients. In return, we’ll provide investment in specialist training and offer you opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop you.

As an International Tax Senior Manager with EY, you’ll be working on an exclusively advisory portfolio from day one with access to an unmatched client base including smaller inbound clients through to the world’s largest multinationals. Whatever the projects and assignments you work on, you can be sure you’re contributing towards helping our clients develop and execute their international tax strategy, ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service.

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.