Financial Services - Global Compliance and Reporting - Corporate Tax Senior Manager - Edinburgh

Join EYs Financial Services (FS) Tax practice in Edinburgh as a Senior Manager to help develop our National Markets team. You will manage relationships with some of our key local and national clients both directly delivering services and working with FS Tax & Law colleagues nationwide to bring them the best of EY as required.

The opportunity:

EY has ambitious plans to develop and expand in National Markets and further develop our high performing teams. Our FS Global Compliance and Reporting team has grown rapidly over recent years to 160 people our Edinburgh team has a long history of serving FS clients in the local market and beyond across the Wealth & Asset Management Banking and Insurance sectors.

As a Senior Manager you will play a major role in supporting the partner and director group in building out the practice developing strong client relationships within the current and target client base. Working in practice means that the job is by its nature different every day and we want someone who is actively looking for this challenge. An agile approach to working with different projects and people is therefore essential.

Your key responsibilities:

The areas of work that you may specialise in include: UK corporation tax compliance partnership compliance fund tax reporting tax accounting and tax audit engagements.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing the successful delivery of tax projects ensuring technical excellence and a practical business driven approach;
• Managing the end to end process for the clients in your portfolio which will include opportunity identification right through to delivery;
• Working with a wide range of individuals both internal and external from across the globe;
• Effective coaching and development of junior staff through delegation and on the job training;
• Providing insightful advice to clients on a range of tax issues;
• Ensuring exceptional client service; and
• Assisting in winning work by proactively managing existing clients and contributing to winning new clients.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Experience in a Financial Services Tax environment with a thorough understanding of UK corporation tax and/ or UK fund tax matters;
• Experience of working in a compliance and reporting environment either within practice or industry;
• Results driven with a focus on quality;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills;
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective working relationships with current and potential clients;
• Strong project management skills;
• A pragmatic approach to problem solving; and
• The ability to motivate a team; manage mentor and train junior staff and work with people from across the business

To qualify for the role you must have:

Experience in corporate tax with a large accountancy or law firm HMRC or inhouse tax team

Any of the following preferred: ACA / ACCA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA e.g. law qualification)

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where youll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs covering holidays health and wellbeing insurance savings and a wide range of discounts offers and promotions.

We will provide investment in a variety of training and offer you opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop and challenge you so that you are in the best place to further develop as a tax professional.

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 whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our clientfacing professionals can be required to travel regularly and at times be based at client sites our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance tax transaction and advisory services were using the finance products expertise and systems weve 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.

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

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