Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and driven individual to join our South Indirect Tax team - advising clients across a range of sectors, and across all areas of indirect tax. 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 South Indirect Tax team is a high-performing and inclusive team, based across locations in Bristol, Reading, Luton and Cambridge, which works with diverse and interesting clients to support their indirect tax agenda. The opportunity is to provide pragmatic commercial help so clients improve their day-to-day reporting for indirect tax, including 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 and services tax (GST) impinge on the client''s supply chain and financial and accounting systems.

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 indirect 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

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

Qualifications

To qualify for the role you must have significant experience in VAT Tax from a large accountancy or in-house team

ATT / ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification

Preferred

Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget

Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral

Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines

Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. EY believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

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