Join EY’s Financial Services (FS) Tax practice as a Corporate Tax Manager and you will be helping clients meet the complex demands of today’s tax environment. You will help to manage relationships with some of our key local and national clients, both delivering services and introducing deep specialists to them as required. You will help them understand the tax implications of political, regulatory, accounting and law changes and build in sustainable strategies to deal with them. With a focus on tax compliance, tax reporting and audit you will also have the opportunity to get involved in advisory and transactions.
This role is open in several locations, including Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, and London.
Your key responsibilities:
Building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service
Ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken on all projects
Identifying and driving opportunities – use your knowledge gained from other projects and from our knowledge sharing sessions and technical training to add input to new projects and proposals
Building strong client and internal relationships - develop and use your relationship skills to create your own external and internal networks
Counsel and develop more junior staff through delegation and on the job training
Skills and attributes for success:
Strategically and commercially aware
Ability to build strong client relationships and committed to delivery of exceptional client service
Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.
Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
Strong and motivated team player who integrates with new teams quickly
Coaching and developing more junior staff
Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out effective reviews and know when to refer upwards
To qualify for the role, you must have:
Experience in corporate tax with a large accountancy or law firm, HMRC or in-house tax team
Any of the following preferred: ACA / ACCA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)
Graduate/graduate calibre or equivalent work experience
Ideally, you will also have:
Project management experience
What we look for
You’ll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of developments in UK and international tax concepts and your awareness of issues affecting the financial services sector so that you can better advise our clients. The types of projects you’ll contribute towards may include:
Tax reporting
Tax compliance
General advisory and applying new tax legislation
Impact of regulation and regulatory reporting
Tax due diligence and structuring advice
Managing relationships with HMRC
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.
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.
Join us in building a better working world.