Financial Services Tax - Senior Manager - International Tax and Transaction Services - London/Leeds

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Job Title: Senior Manager, International Tax and Transaction Services, Financial Services

This role can be based out of any of our offices in Leeds, London and Manchester.

Join EY Tax as a tax professional and you'll be helping international and multinational companies align their global tax position with their business strategy, in order to maintain competitive advantage and provide shareholder value.

EY's Financial Services (FS) Tax practice is the largest such practice in the UK with a fine reputation for sector expertise and close, trusted adviser relationships across a broad range of FS clients including globally systemic financial institutions and niche new market entrants and disruptors.

The UK FS International and Transaction Tax Services (ITTS) team comprises 75 professionals, mainly in London but also in Edinburgh and Leeds and combines international tax services with transaction tax services. This team structure provides a cross-fertilisation of tax advisory services and offers rich career prospects for those with an aptitude for providing tax advice to the FS market.

The ITTS team advises a wide range of clients across the Banking, Insurance and Wealth & Asset Management sectors, including many high-profile transactions and deals reported in the press over the past few years. Our partners are well known and respected in the market, and the work is technically challenging, creative, and requires close collaboration with our clients' businesses.

The opportunity

This is a period of unprecedented change in the global international tax arena, resulting in significant demand for specialised tax advisory services.

If you're an experienced senior manager or director with an interest in Banking, Insurance and/or Wealth & Asset Management and want to further build on your industry knowledge and expertise, as a Tax Director within our team, you'll be joining a group that offers unrivalled opportunities to work on a broad range of advisory opportunities from smaller inbound clients to huge multinationals.

Your key responsibilities

• Building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service.
• Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and a practical/business-driven approach.
• Identifying and driving opportunities by leveraging knowledge from other projects and training to contribute to projects and proposals.
• Building strong client and internal relationships through effective networking.
• Counsel and develop junior staff through delegation and on-the-job training.

Skills and attributes for success

• Client-driven and strategically and commercially aware.
• Excellent communicator in both written and oral situations.
• Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work.
• Strong and motivated team player.
• Experience in coaching and developing junior staff.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Experience as a tax practitioner with expertise in international tax.
• Preferred qualifications: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or equivalent knowledge).
• Experience working with financial services clients.
• Graduate or equivalent work experience.
• Previous people management experience.

Ideally, you will also have

• Experience in coaching and developing junior team members.

What we look for

You'll maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues to better advise our clients.

The types of projects you'll contribute to may include:

• Expansion into new markets.
• Pre-transaction reorganisations and post-transaction integration.
• Organisational structure rationalisation.
• Business model redesign.
• Managing risks arising from international developments (e.g. BEPS, ATAD).
• Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities.
• Buy-side and sell-side tax diligence and structuring services.
• Optimisation of capital structure and financing.
• Tax modelling.

In return, we'll provide investment in training and opportunities on projects that will develop and challenge you, ensuring you're in the best place to further develop as a tax professional.

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

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we hire and develop passionate people to help build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better.

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

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