Manager, Corporate Tax, Bristol

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm in Bristol is seeking a Manager for its Corporate Tax team. The role involves managing complex tax compliance and advisory projects while building strong client relationships. Candidates should have a tax specialization qualification such as ACA or CTA, and strong business development skills. EY offers a competitive remuneration package and promotes flexible working arrangements, supporting career development and personal well-being.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Support for flexible working

Opportunities for skill development

Qualifications

• Strong tax technical skills are required.
• Experience in coaching junior staff is necessary.
• Proven business development experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients.
• Proactive business development to add value to clients.
• Manage delivery of tax compliance and reporting engagements.
• Involve in tax audit engagements.
• Provide exceptional client service.
• Collaborate with tax specialist teams.
• Support and mentor junior team members.
• Contribute to people initiatives.

Skills

Client driven and strategically aware

Strong Corporate Tax technical skills

Strong client relationship management skills

Negotiation skills

Business development skills

Effective time management

Excellent communicator

Education

ACA / CA / CTA / Tax Inspectors qualification

Law qualification or equivalent

Job description

Manager, Corporate Tax, Bristol

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.

Our Corporate Tax specialists within the EY Corporate Tax team work with a wide range of businesses (including OMBs, multi-generational family businesses, PE backed, global corporations and AIM listed) at various stages of the business life cycle (i.e. from start up right through to established multinational). Our work is a combination of both tax advisory and compliance, including tax advice in respect of matters such as M&A structuring, exit planning, group re organisations, expansion into overseas territories and much more.

Most importantly, you will be responsible for building and maintaining trusted relationships with clients and ensuring in your role as their day to day contact that they have access to the breadth of services available to them at EY.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and ambitious individual to join EY's Corporate Tax team based in Bristol. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to work with our excellent existing clients, providing a great opportunity to build and expand their network and be instrumental in winning new business.

The role offers the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting clients in the market to help support them as they navigate an ever increasingly complex business and tax environment.

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients
• Proactive business development to help add value to existing clients and to develop opportunities to add value to new clients
• Management of the successful delivery of technically complex tax compliance and tax reporting engagements as well as delivery of any related advisory projects
• Involvement in tax audit engagements
• Providing exceptional client service
• Working in conjunction with other tax specialist teams
• Provision of development support to junior members of the team through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring
• Contribution to people initiatives

Skills and attributes for success

• Client driven and strategically and commercially aware
• Strong Corporate Tax technical skills
• Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
• 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

• ACA / CA / CTA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Law qualification / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
• Strong tax technical skills
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to generate new work
• Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff

Ideally you'll also have

• Project management skills to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, and monitor own budgets
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically, recognising both the tax technical and commercial implications of advice given.

What we look for

• Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
• Outgoing with good relationship skills
• Willingness to join and integrate into a successful and social team
• The ability to deliver quality output in a timely and efficient manner
• Energy and focus with an interest in taking on new challenges and developing yourself

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 and coaching 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

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.

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.

Join us in building a better working world.

Apply now.

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