Director, Indirect Tax - Compliance, Financial Services

Indirect Tax Director 

Location: London

We have an exciting opportunity to join our expanding EY Financial Services (“FS”) Indirect Tax team, specialising in VAT compliance for multi-national FS clients with advisory elements across all areas of the FS sector  It is a varied role, supporting businesses across the spectrum of processes involved with indirect taxes (including analysis of intercompany flows, VAT return preparation, Making Tax Digital (“MTD”) compliance, the interaction of VAT and wider accounting), being at the forefront to help clients navigate the various opportunities and challenges the environment presents both now and in the future. 

The FS Indirect Tax team is a diverse, supportive, and high-performing team.

The role

You will lead on delivering indirect tax compliance work with advisory elements  to clients, and work closely with EY colleagues across the globe, other areas of tax and broader EY advisory service lines to deliver on larger scale projects.

As part of the EY indirect tax team, you will experience unparalleled opportunities to develop your career, build your global indirect tax technical skills, and experience working on complex and challenging projects and assignments.  We are looking for a highly motivated, committed, hard-working tax professional and team player who is looking for a challenging career move. 

Your key responsibilities 

• Enthusiastic Director with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams
• Managing the successful delivery of the highest quality compliance output to clients, ensuring technical excellence alongside a practical/business focus approach
• Taking day to day leadership of client delivery team
• Helping people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring team members 
• Significant involvement in the management of the team, both in terms of strategy and operations, and through managing junior staff development
• Collaborating with other teams across EY to deliver a broad range of client solutions
• Support and help drive the growth of the EY Financial Services Indirect Tax business and the team

Your client responsibilities

• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
• Business development skills - able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients
• Overall responsibility for quality of client service
• Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice to support clients
• Develop networks and build & maintain relationships both within the firm and externally with clients, identifying opportunities and managing expectations
• Contribute to successfully providing maximum value for both EY and clients from the tax services delivered whilst managing risk appropriately for both client and the firm 

Skills and attributes for success

• Client driven, and strategically and commercially aware
• Self-starter with proven track record of high-quality delivery
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Strong relationship management skills
• Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
• Project management skills, strong ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget and working capital
• Negotiation skills, ability to develop ideas, form opinions and handle challenges
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Enthusiastic team player with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams 

Qualifications and Experience

• 8+ years’ experience in UK indirect tax advisory, ideally in FS or similar industry with a strong understanding of partial exemption, including with professional services background/experience
• ACA/ACCA/CA; or Law qualification; CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA)
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Ability to build strong client relationships
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to motivate and develop team members

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget

What we look for

• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
• Highly experienced tax practitioner with reviewing skills and expertise in functional area
• Commitment to develop your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of developments in UK and international indirect tax, as well as across the industry sector so that you can better advise our clients