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Manager, Corporate Tax, Bristol
Our Corporate Tax specialists within the EY Corporate Tax team work with a wide range of businesses (including OMBs, multi-generational family businesses, PE backed, global corporations and AIM listed) at various stages of the business life cycle ( from start up right through to established multinational). Our work is a combination of both tax advisory and compliance, including tax advice in respect of matters such as M&A structuring, exit planning, group re-organisations, expansion into overseas territories and much more.
Most importantly, you will be responsible for building and maintaining trusted relationships with clients and ensuring in your role as their day-to-day contact that they have access to the breadth of services available to them at EY.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and ambitious individual to join EY’s Corporate Tax team based in Bristol. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to work with our excellent existing clients, providing a great opportunity to build and expand their network and be instrumental in winning new business.
The role offers the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting clients in the market to help support them as they navigate an ever increasingly complex business and tax environment.
Your key responsibilities
1. Build and maintain relationships with clients
2. Proactive business development to help add value to existing clients and to develop opportunities to add value to new clients
3. Management of the successful delivery of technically complex tax compliance and tax reporting engagements as well as delivery of any related advisory projects
4. Involvement in tax audit engagements
5. Providing exceptional client service
6. Working in conjunction with other tax specialist teams
7. Provision of development support to junior members of the team through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring
8. Contribution to people initiatives
Skills and attributes for success
9. Client driven and strategically and commercially aware
10. Strong Corporate Tax technical skills
11. Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
12. Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
13. Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
14. Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
15. Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
To qualify for the role you must have
16. ACA / CA / CTA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Law qualification / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
17. Strong tax technical skills
18. Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to generate new work
19. Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff
Ideally you’ll also have
20. Project management skills to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, and monitor own budgets
21. Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically, recognising both the tax technical and commercial implications of advice given.
What we look for
22. Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
23. Outgoing with good relationship skills
24. Willingness to join and integrate into a successful and social team
25. The ability to deliver quality output in a timely and efficient manner
26. Energy and focus with an interest in taking on new challenges and developing yourself
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:
27. Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
28. Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
29. 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.