Senior Associate - International Tax & Transaction Services - Transfer Pricing - Leeds or Glasgow

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The opportunity

EY Tax is a market leader, renowned for delivering sustainable growth and empowering our people to shape their own careers. Within transfer pricing, our diverse, collaborative team advises high-profile businesses on complex intercompany arrangements, 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 team supports clients to assess their international tax strategies and provides a full spectrum of services across the entire transfer pricing life cycle. As a member of this team, you’ll work on multidisciplinary projects helping clients develop integrated and far-sighted global strategies in the ever-changing regulatory environment. This may include, but is certainly not limited to:

• Designing new transfer pricing models following business expansions or restructuring
• Leading HMRC interactions in controversy situations
• Supporting high profile transactions
• Helping businesses meet their compliance obligations

Your key responsibilities

• Drafting high-quality technical deliverables in relation to a broad range of transfer pricing issues.
• Contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of all types of transfer pricing engagements to a broad range of clients, including private clients, FTSE listed companies, and inbound multinationals across multiple industries.
• Utilise EY’s market leading technology and AI-enabled solutions in delivering client services, and contribute to the continued development of these technology solutions.
• Build and maintain relationships with key client contacts to provide high levels of service, focusing on technical excellence and taking a practical / business driven approach.
• Contribute to winning new work through proactively managing existing clients, undertaking new business development initiatives, and responding to competitive tenders.
• Contribute to practice development initiatives, for example, thought leadership, people initiatives, or business development.

Skills and attributes for success

What we look for:

• Over 2 years transfer pricing experience and proactive approach to continued professional development.
• Ability to build strong relationships across all levels, both with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to integrate with new teams quickly.
• Excellent communication skills in a range of situations both written and oral, and the ability to flex style to match the audience.
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out an effective review, and know when to refer upwards.
• Client focused mindset and strong commercial awareness.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically.
• Ability to manage, coach, and develop junior members of the team.
• Project management skills, the ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, and monitor own budget and time.

Ideally, you’ll also:

• ACA / CA / ACCA / CTA; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training Course; or Law qualification; or CFA; or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
• Proven ability to read and interpret existing and new tax statute

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll equip you with future-focused skills and provide 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.

Commitment to inclusiveness

Inclusiveness is a longstanding business priority for EY, one we’ve continued to build on under our All in business strategy. We’re using this strong foundation to evolve what inclusiveness at EY means, in an increasingly dynamic and complex global business landscape.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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