Financial Services Tax - Senior Advisor - International Tax and Transaction

at  EY

Join EY Tax as a tax professional and you’ll be helping international and multinational companies align their global tax position with their business strategy, to maintain competitive advantage and provide shareholder value.
EY’s Financial Services (FS) Tax practice is the largest such practice in the UK with a fine reputation for sector expertise and close, trusted adviser, relationships across a broad range of FS clients including globally systemic financial institutions and niche new market entrants and disruptors. EY’s FS practice is run on an EMEIA basis providing market differentiated capability for seamless client service on the Europe-wide tax advisory projects which the market is demanding.
The UK FS International and Transaction Tax Services (ITTS) team comprises 75 professionals, mainly in London but also in Edinburgh and Leeds and combines international tax services (encompassing all technical corporate tax advisory services) with transaction tax services (M&A / deals tax). This team structure, introduced on a global EY basis in 2019, provides a cross-fertilisation of tax advisory services and provides rich career prospects for those with an aptitude for providing tax advice to the FS market.
The ITTS team advises a wide range of clients across the Banking, Insurance and Wealth & Asset Management sectors, including having advised on many high-profile transactions and deals reported in the press over the past few years with top FS multinationals. Our partners are well known and respected in the market and the work is technically challenging, creative and requires you to work closely with our clients’ businesses.

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS

• Client driven and strategically and commercially aware
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
• Strong and motivated team player
• Coaching and developing more junior staff

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contributing to building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service
• Help managing the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
• Identifying 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

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE YOU, MUST HAVE

• Experience as a tax practitioner with reviewing skills
• Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)
• Experience of working with financial services clients (desirable)
• An undergraduate/postgraduate degree or with equivalent work experience