Indirect Tax Manager | Manchester, UK

EY; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a confident Indirect Tax professional to join their team as a Senior Advisor. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in VAT and indirect taxes to help clients navigate compliance obligations while achieving their business goals. Your responsibilities will include building strong client relationships, managing tax projects, and providing high levels of service. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a dynamic team and make a significant impact on clients' financial and accounting systems. If you are passionate about indirect tax and eager to develop your skills further, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in VAT Tax from a large accountancy or in-house team.
• Tax qualifications equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients, ensuring high service levels.
• Manage successful delivery of tax projects with technical excellence.

Skills

Indirect Tax experience

Tax technical skills

Client relationship building

Communication skills

Risk identification

Commercial awareness

Team player

Education

VAT Tax experience

ATT / ACA / CA qualification

Job description

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 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 confident Indirect Tax professional to join the team as a Senior Advisor.

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service.
• Build relationships both within the firm and externally with clients, identifying opportunities and managing expectations.
• Contribute to winning new work by proactively managing existing clients and contribute to winning new clients.
• Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken.
• Responsible for day-to-day delivery of client liaison.
• Key member of one of the client service groups providing full tax services to a client portfolio.

Skill and attributes for success

• Relevant Tax experience within Indirect Tax.
• Strong Tax technical skills and keen to develop further.
• Ability to build strong client relationships.
• Excellent communicator in range of situations both written and oral.
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out an effective review and know when to refer upwards.
• Client focused and commercially aware.
• Relationship management skills with ability to manage client expectations.
• Team player with ability to build effective relationships at all levels.

To qualify for the role you must have

• 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.