Indirect Tax Senior Manager - NHS

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in tax advisory is seeking a Senior Manager to enhance their VAT services in Newcastle. The role includes team leadership, client relationship management, and driving business development. Ideal candidates possess significant VAT experience and strong communication skills. This is an opportunity to contribute to a forward-thinking team within a global organization, committed to flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in VAT from a professional services background or in-house team.
• Role suits an existing Senior Manager or an experienced, ambitious Manager.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage teams in VAT services and consulting.
• Build and maintain client relationships.
• Drive business development and manage delivery quality.

Skills

Business development skills

Effective time management

Excellent communication

Education

Significant experience in VAT

ATT / ACA / CA or CTA (advantage)

Job description

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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, advising on complex transactions and ensuring indirect taxes are handled correctly. They may also advise how indirect taxes such as value added tax (VAT) impinge on the client’s supply chain and financial and accounting systems.

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Manager to join our regional team to help drive the VAT practice forward. The opportunity would ideally suit a professional with a broad level of experience with clients in many industry sectors.

The role can either be based in Edinburgh or Newcastle.

Your people responsibilities:

• Enthusiastic Senior 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

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

• 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

To qualify for the role you must have

• Significant experience in VAT from a professional services background or in-house team
• ATT / ACA / CA or CTA would be an advantage but are not a requirement
• The role would suit an existing Senior Manager but we are happy to discuss the opportunity with an experienced, ambitious Manager

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.

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

Who We Are
EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.”

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