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.
The opportunity
Market‑leading growth in our Financial Services Indirect Tax (VAT) team has created an opportunity for a strong VAT tax professional to join the team. You can own projects and work with the management team to identify business opportunities. You will have the support of a strong team with proven expertise in this area and the opportunity to progress, learn and accelerate your career.
You will work with clients in the Financial Services industry as part of a globally integrated network of specialists with high quality economics, tax authority, legal, commercial and technology backgrounds. The work is technically challenging, creative and requires close collaboration with clients’ businesses.
Your key responsibilities
- Enthusiastic manager with ability to create and sustain effective teams
- Act as a central point of contact – liaise with international clients and colleagues with respect to UK and European VAT compliance
- Monitor the quality of indirect tax data and reports of clients
- Ensure delivery of quality work and take day‑to‑day management of delivery team
- Review and approve indirect tax returns
- Follow up on legislative and business changes to ensure processes are updated
- Identify issues and opportunities to continuously improve the compliance processes
- Through insightful analysis of returns and data, identify areas of opportunity and risk to generate additional VAT advisory opportunities for the VAT business
- Coordinate VAT compliance and technology support
- Help people develop through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring staff
- Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training international tax professionals
- Significant involvement in management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and through managing junior staff development and assignment
Skills and attributes for success
What we look for
- Ability to build strong client relationships and be commercially aware
- Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
- Business‑development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
- Strong practical and commercial experience having advised clients, or worked ‘in‑house’
- Effective time management, ability to remain calm under pressure to meet deadlines
- Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
- Team player with ability to create, sustain and manage effective, inclusive teams
Ideally, you will also have
- Experience working within Financial Services
- 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.
