Director, Private Capital Transactions, London

EY; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuous learning

Flexible working arrangements

Career progression opportunities

Diversity and inclusion culture

Job summary

EY in London seeks a Director for Private Capital Transactions to lead Tax Due Diligence, Tax Structuring and related advisory work for high-profile deals. The role focuses on delivering technically excellent and commercially astute solutions in a global tax network.

You will manage client relationships, oversee project delivery, and mentor junior staff while contributing to strategy and team operations within the FTTA group. Flexible working options are available.

Qualifications

• Experienced UK tax practitioner with reviewing skills and expertise in Restructuring Tax.
• ACA/ATT/CTA or international equivalent / Law qualification.
• Ability to manage multiple deals and client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide world class levels of client service
• Assist in winning work by proactively managing existing clients and contribute to winning new clients.
• Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and commercial/deal focused approach taken
• 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
• Client focused and strategically and commercially aware
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
• Develop junior staff through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and through managing junior staff development and assignments

Skills

Tax advisory

Restructuring tax

Client relationships

Deal execution

Stakeholder management

Education

ACA/ATT/CTA

International law qualification

Job description

Director, Private Capital Transactions, London

Location: London

Other locations: Primary Location Only

Date: Oct 15, 2026

Requisition ID: 1647536

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Director - Private Capital Transactions, International Tax (Open to flexible working)

The FTTA team at EY is unique in having all transaction specialists in one place. Our vision is to have a world class, distinct end to end Private Equity platform, covering transactions and transformations through to exit, across the global PE market. The team includes Private Equity deal specialists, in addition to Portfolio, Infrastructure, Restructuring and Fund/Management structuring specialists. This provides the team with a natural hedge against market turbulence with focus shifting between areas as the economic cycle develops,

The Private Capital Transactions tax team, within FTTA, is a diverse team that’s leverages different backgrounds and specialises in buy and sell side Tax Due Diligence, Tax Structuring, funds flow, tax modelling and SPA review (together with advising on Listings and Carve outs) for high-profile, newsworthy deals. They work with clients of all sizes in all industries, working closely with the incredibly strong EY tax network around the world.

The opportunity

As deal advisers, FTTA team members not only get good UK tax technical experience, but also gain a commercial understanding of what is important to our clients in a transactions context.

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide world class levels of client service
• Assist in winning work by proactively managing existing clients and contribute to winning new clients.
• Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and commercial/deal focused approach taken
• 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
• Client focused and strategically and commercially aware
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
• Develop junior staff through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and through managing junior staff development and assignments

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Experienced UK tax practitioner with reviewing skills and expertise in Restructuring Tax
• ACA/ATT/CTA or international equivalent / Law qualification

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget and time
• Experience in UK tax compliance

What we offer

• 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.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transactions, 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.

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Please Note:

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters!

Who we are?

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