Job Description

The combination of experience and innovation in our team makes it not only one of the most exciting places to work in tax, but also a place where you can learn and develop into a skilled and renowned tax adviser, working with UK / overseas MNCs, lawyers and banks on complex and inspiring projects.

 

Our tax professionals will work on a variety of projects which are focused on helping clients to develop and execute their domestic and international tax strategy, including: Expansion into new markets

• Pre-transaction reorganizations and post-transaction integration
• Greenfield project development and government led infrastructure procurement
• Refinancing advice
• M&A diligence and tax structuring
• Legal structure rationalization
• Corporate tax compliance
• Driving digital and technology change
• Optimization of capital structure and financing
• Managing the risk arising from global law change such as BEPS, and
• Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in UK and globally
• Dealing with HMRC enquiries
   

Your key responsibilities

• Contributing to building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service
• Managing the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business guided approach taken
• Identifying and driving opportunities – use your knowledge gained from other projects and from our knowledge sharing sessions and technical training to add input to projects and proposals
• Building your own strong client and internal relationships - develop and use your relationship skills to create your own external and internal networks
• Develop junior staff through delegation and on the job training

Skills and attributes for success

• Client driven and commercially aware.
• Strong corporate tax technical skills.
• 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.
• Good business acumen with ability to manage engagement financial results.
• Project management skills to plan and priorities work, as well as meet deadlines.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically.
• Strong and motivated team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly.
• Coaching and developing more junior staff.
• Change orientated and innovative with flexible approach to ways of working and adoption of new technologies.

What we look for

You’ll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues so that you can better advise our clients. In return we’ll provide investment in specialist training and offer you opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop and challenge you so that you’re in the best place to develop you tax career.

As an International Tax Manager with EY you’ll be working on a largely advisory portfolio from day one with access to an unmatched client base including smaller inbound clients through to the world’s largest multinationals, on transactions, advisory and audit of tax projects
Whatever the projects and assignments you work on you can be confident that you’re contributing towards helping our clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Experienced tax practitioner with reviewing skills and expertise in international tax. Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification). Experience of Managing a team and/or coaching and developing more junior team members.