UKI Tax - Senior Manager - International Tax and Transactions - Energy - Aberdeen

Senior Manager- Energy International Tax (Open to flexible working)

We’ve got an exciting opportunity to join our international tax services team, who are recognised as being leaders in international tax advisory and cross border M&A. You will be working with some of the largest corporations in the world advising them on their international tax planning and M&A deals, specifically within our International Transaction Tax Service (ITTS) Practice focusing on the Energy offering.

You will collaborate with sector-leading Partners who are well known and respected in the market. You’ll also be part of a high-performing team that has advised on many high-profile and market-leading transactions over the past few years.

It is a great time to join the ITTS team, which has expanded exponentially in recent years and continues to grow. With several disrupting factors in the market at the moment, you’ll be at the forefront of helping our clients navigate international market challenges.

The opportunity

The combination of experience and innovation in our team makes it one of the most exciting places to work in tax, where you can learn and develop into a skilled and renowned international tax adviser, working with UK/overseas MNCs, lawyers, and banks on complex projects.

Our international tax professionals will work on various projects focused on helping clients develop and execute their international tax strategy, including:

• Expansion into new markets
• Pre-transaction reorganisations and post-transaction integration
• Legal structure rationalisation
• Operating model redesign
• Optimisation of capital structure and financing
• Optimisation of intellectual property ownership and reliefs
• Managing risks arising from global law changes, such as BEPS
• Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in the UK and globally

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients, winning work proactively and contributing to acquiring new clients
• Manage the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and a practical/business-focused approach
• Overall responsibility for the quality of client service
• Manage potential leads from other areas of the practice
• Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage
• Develop junior staff through effective supervision, coaching, and mentoring

Significant involvement in managing the team in terms of strategy and operations, as well as through managing junior staff development and assignments.

Skills and attributes for success

• Client focus and commercial awareness
• Strong international and UK tax technical skills and understanding
• Commitment to building strong client relationship management with the ability to develop quality outputs
• Negotiation skills to handle challenges
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities
• Strong business acumen with the ability to manage engagement financial results
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm under pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent communicator in various situations, both written and oral
• Enthusiastic team player with the ability to create and sustain effective teams
• Ensure delivery of quality work and manage day-to-day operations

Change-oriented and innovative with a flexible approach to working and adopting new technologies.

To qualify for the role you must have

• ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training Course; or Law qualification
• Degree qualified
• Experienced corporate tax practitioner
• Proven ability to read and interpret existing and new tax statutes
• Experience in a client-facing role in UK tax or a similar jurisdiction
• Experience working within the Energy sector

Ideally, you’ll also have

Project management skills, with the ability to plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, and monitor budgets.

What we look for

You’ll proactively maintain your technical understanding by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues to better advise our clients. In return, we’ll invest in specialist training and offer opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop you, positioning you to build your tax career.

As an International Tax Manager with EY, you’ll work on an exclusively advisory portfolio from day one, with access to an unmatched client base, including smaller inbound clients through to the world’s largest multinationals.

Whatever the projects and assignments you work on, you can be sure you’re contributing towards helping our clients develop and execute their international tax strategy, ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service.

What we offer

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching, and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• You can read more here: https://www.ey.com/en_uk/careers/what-its-like-to-work-here

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

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

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.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people, and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform, and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax, and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

Please Note:

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyze our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters!

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 while 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 achieve a lifestyle balance.

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