Senior Manager, Indirect Tax, Edinburgh/Glasgow

EY; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in Edinburgh is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to drive their VAT practice forward. The successful candidate will lead teams, ensure quality service delivery, and maintain strong client relationships. Ideal for those with significant VAT experience and strong business development skills, this role offers a dynamic and supportive environment with opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

World-class experiences

Diverse and inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Experience in VAT from a professional services background or in-house team.
• Ability to create, support, and lead effective teams.
• Strong negotiation and client service skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of quality work and manage day-to-day operations.
• Develop team members through effective supervision and mentoring.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and ensure client service quality.
• Contribute to management strategy and operations while developing junior staff.

Skills

Business development skills

Effective time management

Excellent communication

Significant experience in VAT

Project management skills

Education

ATT / ACA / CA or CTA (advantageous)

Job description

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The opportunity

EY Tax is a market leader, renowned for delivering sustainable growth and empowering our people to shape their own careers. Our diverse, collaborative team advises on high‑profile transactions, combining technical expertise, innovation and a genuine focus on continuous development. Join us to work on challenging, multi‑country projects in a supportive, dynamic environment where your impact truly matters.

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.

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.

Your key 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 management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments
• 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 a practical / business driven approach is taken
• Overall responsibility for 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

Skills and attributes for success

What we look for

• 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
• 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
• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget

What we offer you

At EY, we'll develop you with future‑focused skills and equip you with world‑class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams.

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