Senior Manager, Private Equity Portfolio Tax, London

Ernst & Young; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm in the UK seeks a Tax Advisor to join their private equity portfolio team. The successful candidate will build strong relationships with financial executives and deliver high-quality tax services. Core responsibilities include using AI in tax services, coaching junior staff, and assisting in identifying tax opportunities. Ideal candidates will have strong UK tax skills and experience advising private equity clients. Join to help shape the future of tax advisory with confidence.

Qualifications

• Strong UK tax technical skills are essential for this role.
• Experience in coaching and developing junior team members is required.
• Proven ability to advise private equity backed clients effectively.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain tax relationships with client CFOs and controllers.
• Ensure high-quality tax deliverables for clients.
• Utilize AI to enhance tax service provision.
• Contribute to team strategy and management.
• Develop and mentor junior team members.
• Assist with tax opportunities for clients.

Skills

Strong UK tax technical skills

Coaching and developing junior staff

Advising private equity backed clients

Job description

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.

Qualifications / Experience

• Strong UK tax technical skills.
• Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff.
• Experience of advising private equity backed clients.

About the Opportunity

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.

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 that 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 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.