Manager - Indirect Tax - VAT Advisory, Financial Services

at  EY

MANAGER, INDIRECT TAX, FINANCIAL SERVICES

Market-leading growth in our Financial Services Indirect Tax (VAT) team has created an opportunity for a strong VAT tax professional to join the team. You will be able to own projects and work with the management team to further identify business opportunities. You will have the support of a strong team with proven expertise in this area and the opportunity to progress, learn and accelerate your career.
You will have the opportunity to work with clients in the Financial Services industry as part of a globally integrated network of specialists with high quality economics, tax authority, legal, commercial and technology backgrounds. The work is technically challenging, creative and requires you to work closely with our clients’ businesses.

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS

• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
• Negotiation skills, able to gain buy-in and handle challenges
• Business development skills - able to identify and convert opportunities by proactively managing existing client relationships and winning new clients
• High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
• Overall responsibility of quality of client service
• Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
• Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
• 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

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Enthusiastic manager with ability to create and sustain effective teams
• Ability to build and strong client relationships with evidence of go to market
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day management of delivery team
• Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
• Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training international tax professionals
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignment

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE, YOU MUST HAVE

• Ability to build strong client relationships and commercially aware.
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Strong practical and commercial experience having advised clients, or worked ‘in-house’
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Team player with ability to create, sustain and manage effective, inclusive teams