Senior Indirect Tax Advisor - Birmingham, United Kingdom - EY

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Indirect Tax Advisor

This role will ideally be based from our Reading office however we are open to considering applicants across Bristol and Southampton regions
Our VAT professionals help clients identify opportunities and mitigate indirect tax risks.

They use their deep sector experience and knowledge of different legal and regulatory systems around the world to help clients meet their compliance obligations as well as achieve their business goals.

The opportunity
Our Indirect Tax professionals provide pragmatic commercial help so clients improve their day-to-day reporting for indirect tax. This includes improving working capital, reducing errors, reducing costs and ensuring indirect taxes are handled correctly.

They advise how indirect taxes such as value added tax (VAT) or goods & services tax (GST) impinge on the client's supply chain and financial and accounting systems.

We are looking for a highly experienced Manager to join our team to help drive the VAT practice forward.

Your key responsibilities

Your people responsibilities:

Enthusiastic manager with ability to create, support, sustain and lead effective teams
Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day leadership 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 assignments

Your client responsibilities

Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
Business development skills able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients 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

Skill and attributes for success

Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral

To qualify for the role you must have

Significant experience in VAT Tax from a large accountancy or inhouse team
ATT / ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification

Ideally, you'll also have