The opportunity
would ideally suit a professional with a broad level of experience with clients in many industry sectors.
The role can either be based in Edinburgh or Newcastle.
Your people responsibilities:
1. Enthusiastic Senior 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
Your client responsibilities
6. Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
7. Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
8. Business development skills - able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients and winning new clients.
9. High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
10. Overall responsibility of quality of client service
11. Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
12. Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
13. 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
14. Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
15. Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
16. Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
To qualify for the role you must have
17. Significant experience in VAT from a professional services background or in-house team
18. ATT / ACA / CA or CTA would be an advantage but are not a requirement
19. The role would suit an existing Senior Manager but we are happy to discuss the opportunity with an experienced, ambitious Manager
Ideally, you’ll also have
20. Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
About EY
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