Senior Manager, Indirect Tax, Multiple Locations Across the UK

Senior Manager, Indirect Tax, Multiple Locations Across the UK

Location: Bristol

Other locations: Primary Location Only

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The opportunity

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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.

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 motivated and experienced Senior Manager to join our team to help drive the South Indirect Tax practice forward.

Your key responsibilities

• Enthusiastic Senior 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
• 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 What we look for

• 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
• 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

Ideally, you'll also have

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

What we offer you

At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more .

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