Corporate Tax - Senior Manager - All EY Office Locations

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm is seeking a Corporate Tax – Senior Manager to lead complex tax advisory projects. The role involves building client relationships, mentoring junior staff, and driving new business opportunities. Ideal candidates will have strong tax technical skills and relevant qualifications such as ACA, ICAEW, or CTA. This position offers competitive remuneration and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Flexible working options

Career development support

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications include ICAS / ACA / CTA or equivalent.
• Strong coaching and development experience required.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of complex consulting projects.
• Build and maintain client relationships.
• Proactively identify business development opportunities.
• Provide support to junior team members.
• Contribute to team training and retention initiatives.

Skills

Strong tax technical skills

Client relationship management

Business development skills

Excellent communication

Negotiation skills

Effective time management

Education

ICAS / ACA / CTA / Tax Inspectors qualification

Job description

Overview

Corporate Tax – Senior Manager

Location: London. Other locations: Anywhere in the country. Date: 13 Sept 2025. Requisition ID: 1636514.

Our Corporate Tax specialists within the EY Corporate Tax team work with a wide range of businesses (including OMBs, multi-generational family businesses, PE backed, global corporations and AIM listed) at various stages of the business life cycle. 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. 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.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and ambitious individual to join EY’s Corporate Tax team nationwide. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to work with our excellent existing clients, providing a great opportunity to build and expand their network and be instrumental in winning new business. The role offers the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting clients in the market to help support them as they navigate an ever increasingly complex business and tax environment.

Your key responsibilities

• Management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects for their clients, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
• Build and maintain relationships with clients
• Proactive business development to win new work
• Provision of development support to junior members of the team through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring
• Contribution to people initiatives, including retaining and training our team

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong tax technical skills – corporate tax specialist
• Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs
• Client centric mindset
• Strategically and commercially aware
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
• 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
• Good knowledge of advising a range of companies including Owner Managed, Family Owned and PE backed.

To qualify for the role you must have

• ICAS / ACA / CTA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Law qualification / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
• Strong tax technical skills – corporate tax specialist
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff

Ideally you’ll also have

• Project management skills, plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically
• Knowledge/appreciation of personal taxes to the extent shareholder/management team involvement in corporate tax structuring

What we look for

• Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
• Outgoing with good relationship skills
• The ability to deliver quality output in a timely and efficient manner

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.
• 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

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