Indirect Tax Senior Manager

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

Job summary

A leading global advisory firm is seeking an Indirect Tax Senior Manager in Manchester. You will leverage your expertise in VAT to manage client relationships and improve compliance for indirect taxes. This is an opportunity to take ownership of tax projects and deliver exceptional client service while working in a dynamic environment that promotes career development.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Support for flexible working

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in VAT tax compliance.
• Ability to manage multiple client expectations effectively.
• Experience in delivering tax projects with technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain client tax relationships.
• Contribute to winning new work by managing existing client portfolios.
• Manage day-to-day delivery of client services.

Skills

Relevant Tax experience within Indirect Tax

Strong Tax technical skills

Excellent communication skills

Client-focused and commercially aware

Relationship management skills

Team player

Education

VAT Tax from a large accountancy or in-house team

ATT / ACA / CA / equivalent Tax specialist qualification

Job description

Overview

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Indirect Tax Senior 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 Manager.

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

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

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.

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets. Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow. EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.