Senior Advisor, International Tax and Transaction Services, Financial Services

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. We have ambitious growth plans in our FS ITTS team. If you’re a senior advisor with an interest in Banking, Insurance and/or Wealth & Asset Management and want to further develop or build on your industry knowledge, you can be certain that as a Tax Senior within our team you’ll be joining a group which offers you unrivalled opportunities to work on a broad range of advisory opportunities from smaller inbound clients to huge multinationals. EY’s global merger of its International Tax and Transaction Tax teams means that ITTS professionals can also advise on the structuring aspects of some of the largest corporate and private equity M&A deals and due to this unique structure, we can offer variety and/or specialism. Professionals in our team may work across our sub-sectors; Banking, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management; or may specialise in any one of these.

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
• Developing your own skills from learning and in practice to support your own career as a tax advisor of the future.

Skills and attributes for success

• Client driven and strategically and commercially aware
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both in writing and speaking
• Self starter, 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

What we look for

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.

What working at EY offers

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

We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client‑facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.