Manager, Corporate Tax, Belfast

at  EY

Our Belfast office is a successful and growing one thanks to a large and varied client base ranging from multinational listed businesses to start ups, owner managed to private equity / entrepreneurial venture backed, covering various sectors. The role means we can offer you the opportunity to gain experience of the mid-market and enhance your skills working with national and international businesses.

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS

We are looking for tax professionals who excel at client relationships and who have the confidence and skills to win new work and clients. Business development skills, in terms of being able to go out and meet new contacts, understand their business needs and find how we can add value to them by addressing those needs, is therefore a key requirement.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the successful delivery of business tax advisory services for tax advisory projects ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach
• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional client service. A key expectation will be well project managed service with high quality deliverables that demonstrates that value has been provided to the client
• Build relationships within the firm to support the identification of opportunities and provide deep specialist assistance to clients.
• A significant contribution to winning new work by proactively managing existing clients and targeting / building relationships in the business community to win projects on new clients.
• Responsible for providing coaching and support to more junior members of the team to support them on client and project work and through personal development
  As a manager you will also play a key role effectively managing the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing & coaching less experienced members of the team supporting them through assignments and helping them develop their careers.

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE YOU MUST HAVE

• Experienced corporate tax manager with UK corporate tax experience for this role.
• Experience of working on business tax advisory projects including business restructuring and reorganisation projects, tax due diligence and tax structuring projects for corporate acquisitions. A solid background in UK corporate tax compliance and experience of international tax matters is also preferable.
• Up to date knowledge of changes in the tax environment (BEPS, CBCR etc)
• Proven track record for business development on existing clients and ‘cold’ targets