Indirect Tax Manager/ Senior Manager - Birmingham

TN United Kingdom; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic professional with extensive VAT advisory experience to join their Birmingham team. This role offers the opportunity to lead and develop effective teams while delivering exceptional client service. You'll engage with various sectors, manage complex consulting projects, and drive business development initiatives. The company fosters a culture of growth, providing you with the training and creative freedom to excel in your career. If you're a self-starter with a passion for client relations and team leadership, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Indirect Tax advisory, ideally in professional services.
• Strong client management and business development skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage effective teams, ensuring quality service delivery.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients while managing complex projects.

Skills

VAT advisory experience

Business development skills

Negotiation skills

Effective time management

Excellent communication

Education

ATT / ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors qualification

Tax specialist qualification

Job description

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

29.04.2025

Expiry Date:

13.06.2025

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Job Description:

The opportunity

would ideally suit a professional with a broad level of experience with clients in many industry sectors.

We are looking for a candidate with core VAT advisory experience but welcome those with broader experience of other Indirect Taxes and technology.

The role is based in Birmingham.

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 retaining and training international tax professionals
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments
• Collaborating with various teams across EY to deliver a broad range of client services

Your client responsibilities

• 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 and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients and winning new clients.
• High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
• Overall responsibility of quality of client service
• 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

• Self-starter with proven track record of high-quality delivery
• Client driven and commercially aware
• 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
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Enthusiastic team player, with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams

To qualify for the role you must have

• Significant experience (5+) in Indirect Tax advisory, ideally with prior professional services experience
• 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

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.