Indirect Tax Manager 1

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm is seeking an Indirect Tax Manager to support client VAT needs. This role requires significant VAT experience, strong management skills, and the ability to develop business opportunities. The successful candidate will also manage consulting projects and build client relationships. Competitive remuneration and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Flexibility in working

Opportunities for career development

Qualifications

• Significant experience in VAT from an accountancy or in-house team.
• Ability to manage projects and prioritise workload.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technically complex consulting projects with excellence.
• Manage indirect tax considerations in large M&A transactions.
• Build and maintain client relationships.
• Identify business opportunities and manage client accounts.

Skills

Business development skills

Effective time management

Excellent communication

Education

ATT / ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors qualification

Job description

Overview

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Indirect Tax Manager

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 opportunity

Our Indirect Tax professionals provide pragmatic commercial support, so clients improve their day-to-day management of indirect taxes. This includes advising on transactions, 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 Manager to help us grow further our Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction VAT team.

Your key responsibilities

Your people 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 training and retaining tax professionals)

Your client responsibilities

• High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
• Manage indirect tax consideration as it relates to large and complex M&A transactions
• 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 opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients and winning new clients
• 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

Skill and attributes for success

• Business development skills, able to identify opportunities to sell work
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral and in virtual and in-person environments

To qualify for the role you must have

• Significant experience in VAT from an 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 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. Plus, we offer:

• 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

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction 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.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
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