Indirect Tax Senior - London, United Kingdom - EY

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Indirect Tax Senior - TMT - Open to flexible working

Our Indirect Tax professionals help clients to manage their indirect tax compliance obligations, identify opportunities and mitigate indirect tax risks.

They use their deep experience and knowledge of different legal and regulatory systems around the world to help clients manage their global indirect tax footprint as well as achieve their business goals.

In an ever-changing world, our indirect tax professionals provide pragmatic commercial help, so clients can improve their day-to-day reporting and management of indirect tax.

This includes improving working capital, reducing errors, reducing costs and generally ensuring indirect taxes are handled correctly.

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

The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and ambitious individual to join EY's specialist Technology, Media and Telecommunications ("TMT") Indirect Tax team in London.

The TMT team help support and deliver Indirect Tax advice for their clients both across the UK and globally.

Your people responsibilities:

Enthusiastic Manager with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams
Ensure delivery of quality work and take daytoday leadership of delivery teams on projects and client accounts
Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
Team management in terms of pushing forward strategic initiatives, managing 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
Business development skills able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients.
Overall responsibility for quality of client service and accuracy of work
Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
Build networks and relationships internally and externally with clients
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

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
Project management skills, ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget and working capital
Negotiation skills, ability to sustain opinion and handle challenges
Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
Enthusiastic team player with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams

To qualify for the role you must have:

CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA); or internationally recognised equivalent tax qualifications
Significant experience as an indirect tax practitioner with skills and expertise in functional area
Indepth VAT technical knowledge, and experience in global indirect tax matters, particularly in crossborder services
Experience having worked with TMT businesses in the past is preferable, but not required a clear interest in the sector is a must however
Basic understanding of accounting principles such as journal adjustments and GL reconciliations
Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
Ability to build strong client relationships
Experience working in consultancy (big 4 desired but not mandatory)

What working at EY offers
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance.

Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

Commitment for support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we're using the finance products, expertise and systems we've developed to build a better working world.

That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better.

Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.