Financial Services Tax - Manager - International Tax and Transaction Services - London-Leeds

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The opportunity

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 manager 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 Manager 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 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.
• Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken.
• Identifying and driving opportunities - use your knowledge gained from other projects, our technical training and our knowledge sharing sessions 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 in the Banking, Insurance or Wealth & Asset Management markets.
• Counsel and develop junior staff through delegation and on the job training.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong tax advisory technical skills.
• Client driven and strategically and commercially aware.
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.
• 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:

• Expertise in international tax.
• Any of the following preferred: ACA / CTA / legal qualification or equivalent.
• Previous people management experience of coaching and developing more junior team members.
• Experience of working with financial services clients.
• Self-starter attitude and energy and enthusiasm to be successful as part of a high performing team.
• Willing to take ownership and responsibility for maintaining client relationships / managing high quality work output and developing the next generation of teams.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget, ability to manage multiple and varied stakeholders.

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 a 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.

EY is 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.

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. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. Join us in building a better working world.