The opportunity
would ideally suit a professional with a broad level of experience with clients in many industry sectors.
We are looking for a candidate with core VAT advisory experience but welcome those with broader experience of other Indirect Taxes and technology.
The role is based in Birmingham.
Your people responsibilities:
1. Enthusiastic manager with ability to create, support, sustain and lead effective teams
2. Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day leadership of delivery team
3. Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
4. Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training international tax professionals
5. Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments
6. Collaborating with various teams across EY to deliver a broad range of client services
Your client responsibilities
7. Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
8. Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
9. Business development skills - able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients and winning new clients.
10. High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
11. Overall responsibility of quality of client service
12. Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
13. Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
14. Contribute to successfully extracting maximum value for both EY and clients from the tax services delivered whilst managing risk appropriately for both client and the firm
Skill and attributes for success
15. Self-starter with proven track record of high-quality delivery
16. Client driven and commercially aware
17. Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
18. Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
19. Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
20. Enthusiastic team player, with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams
To qualify for the role you must have
21. Significant experience (5+) in Indirect Tax advisory, ideally with prior professional services experience
22. ATT / ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
Ideally, you’ll also have
23. Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
About EY
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