Senior Manager, Private Equity Portfolio Tax, London

EY; City Of London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in London is seeking exceptional candidates for their PE portfolio tax team. The successful candidate will be responsible for building client relationships with CFOs, ensuring high levels of service through timely tax deliverables, and incorporating AI into tax services. Candidates should have strong UK tax skills and experience in coaching junior staff. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team focused on delivering value to clients.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of UK tax regulations and compliance.
• Proven ability to build relationships with clients.
• Demonstrated experience in coaching and mentoring junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Maintain tax relationships with CFOs and financial controllers.
• Produce high-quality tax deliverables for clients.
• Incorporate AI into tax service provision.
• Contribute to the strategy and management of the team.
• Develop junior team members through coaching.
• Assist partners with tax opportunity origination.

Skills

Strong UK tax technical skills

Experience of advising private equity backed clients

Experience of coaching and developing junior staff

Education

ACA / CA / CTA

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The opportunity

EY is experiencing a significant increase in demand for the provision of tax services to private equity backed companies. This demand is being driven by a combination of a highly successful M&A tax team that works with a number of PE houses and generates a significant number of post-transaction opportunities, and a growing need from clients to engage with a tax adviser which can provide high quality, commercial and pragmatic tax advice across all areas and geographies.

The PE portfolio tax team at EY sits within the same group as the M&A tax and funds tax teams, enabling the provision of a comprehensive and joined-up tax service offering to the PE fund and its portfolio companies. The EY portfolio companies tax team is passionate about advising clients in this space, relishing not only the opportunity to advise on the myriad of tax of tax opportunities and risks that typically apply to such businesses throughout the investment lifecycle, but also forging close relationships with management teams and supporting them on their journey to an eventual exit.

We are looking for exceptional candidates that share the same passion and determination to join our PE portfolio tax team.

Key responsibilities

• Building and maintaining tax relationships with CFOs, financial controllers and heads of tax at private equity backed clients.
• Ensuring we provide the highest levels of service to our clients through the timely production of high quality tax deliverables.
• Considering the use of AI and incorporating into the provision of our tax services.
• Being an active part of the portfolio companies tax team, contributing to the strategy and management of the team.
• Building networks and personal relationships both internally and externally.
• Developing junior team members through coaching and mentoring.
• Assisting partners and directors with the origination of tax opportunities on new and existing clients.

Skills and attributes for success

• ACA / CA / CTA
• Strong UK tax technical skills
• Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff.

• Experience of advising private equity backed clients.

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