UKI Tax Senior Manager Corporate Tax

Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm is seeking a Tax Manager to join their Corporate Tax team in Aberdeen. This role involves building client relationships and delivering excellent tax advisory and compliance services. The ideal candidate will have significant corporate tax experience and be adept at managing teams while contributing to business development. The position offers opportunities for flexible working and professional growth within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Continuous learning opportunities

Transformative leadership coaching

Diverse and inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Corporate Tax from practice or in-house.
• Proven ability to read and interpret tax statutes.
• Experience in tax accounting and tax audit.

Responsibilities

• Deliver tax services efficiently and successfully.
• Ensure quality of client service is maintained.
• Manage complex tax projects and report to directors.
• Mentor and develop team members.
• Contribute to team strategy and operations.

Skills

Client relationship management

Negotiation skills

Business development

Effective time management

Excellent communication

Team player

Coaching junior staff

Education

ACA/CA/ATT/CTA or equivalent

Corporate tax experience

Job description

We’ve got an exciting opportunity to join our Corporate Tax team where our work is a combination of both tax advisory and compliance, including tax advice in respect of matters such as M&A structuring, exit planning, group re-organisations, expansion into overseas territories and much more. Our Aberdeen office is a successful and growing one with an impressive client portfolio.

You will be responsible for building and maintaining trusted relationships with clients and ensuring in your role as their day to day contact that they have access to the breadth of services available to them at EY.

This is the perfect role for an ambitious individual ready to take the next step and become the leader you want to be. We also want you to be focussed on developing people within the team.

The opportunity

We are continuing to grow and build out our Corporate Tax team and are keen to speak with experienced Tax Managers with a focus/background in Corporate Tax, who have a proven track record of building trusted relationships with clients/people and a passion for delivering exceptional client service. EY continues to invest significantly in Aberdeen and we are looking for the right individual to join our team and help contribute to our growth ambition at this exciting time for the city and region.

As a tax senior manager working in EY’s Aberdeen office you’ll provide a full range of corporate tax services. You’ll be working within client service teams as well as our deals, audit and consulting colleagues and will broaden your experience of different business tax areas to help our clients through the challenges of tax planning, tax compliance and reporting obligations and to provide support on transactions.

Your key responsibilities

• To contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of tax services to the client
• Providing exceptional client service with responsibility for quality provided
• Pro-active business development to help add value to existing clients and to develop opportunities to add value to new clients
• High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business focused approach taken
• Being responsible for, and reporting to, Directors and Partners on client account management, including complying with appropriate quality and risk management procedures and financial management
• Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
• Involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and through managing junior staff development and assignments

Skills and attributes for success

• Significant experience in Corporate Tax from practice or from an in-house tax background
• Strong client relationship management skills
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and exhibit strong stakeholder management
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to add value to new and existing clients
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Enthusiastic team player with ability to create and sustain effective teams
• Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day management of delivery team
• Act as a leader. Think about maintaining the strength of the EY brand in the energy sector, and support our partner group in the office evolve and deliver the strategy for EY Aberdeen

To qualify for the role you must have

• ACA/CA/ ATT/CTA / or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training Course / Law qualification
• Experienced corporate tax practitioner
• Experience in tax accounting/tax audit
• Proven ability to read and interpret existing and new tax statute

What we offer

• An unrivalled list of clients from the very largest multinationals to exciting and fast-moving owner-managed companies.
• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. 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 your 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.

About EY

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

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