Senior Consultant - Private Tax Advisory

Senior Consultant - Private Tax Advisory

Our EY Private Tax team is dedicated to helping our clients succeed in their business ambitions while safeguarding and enhancing their wealth to secure their future. Our approach extends beyond numerical analysis, as we invest time in comprehensively understanding our clients' personal circumstances, aspirations, and the intricacies of their personal, business, and financial objectives.

We are looking for experienced Senior Consultants to join Perth’s leading tax practice in our Private Tax team.

It’s an exciting time to join our high performing and rapidly growing team. The role will deliver great opportunities for you to work across a range of privately owned clients including entrepreneurial start-ups, established private businesses and high-net worth individuals and family groups to help shape and enhance business strategies and solve tomorrow’s tax problems today.

In this role, you will work across multiple projects and clients, both autonomously and as valued member of our team, including opportunities to collaborate with our global tax network.. At EY, the Private Tax team is at the heart of the client relationship, and by joining our team you will be mentored by some of the best in this field to gain the skills and experience to become a trusted advisor, bringing the best of EY to our clients to deliver value add solutions and insights.  

Our roles can potentially be adjusted to work flexibly with reduced hours. Please speak with us about potential options. 

Your key responsibilities

Demonstrate your passion for tax within our EY Private Tax team, leveraging your 3+ years of experience in Tax or Business Services, coupled with your CA qualification (completed or in progress). You will be central to delivering pragmatic solutions to help our clients solve complex income tax challenges and efficiently manage their tax compliance responsibilities. Your responsibilities will encompass:

• Advising high-net-worth individuals family businesses, and their owners on intricate tax matters, including restructures, capital gains tax, Division 7A, and trust losses.
• Providing a comprehensive range of tax advisory services to large private owned companies, dealing with complex tax matters including exposure to international tax issues
• Delivering tax compliance, financial statements, planning, and advisory services for extensive client groups featuring diverse entity types such as trusts, companies, partnerships, and individuals.
• Providing family advisory services, incorporating succession and estate planning.
• Engaging with the ATO to facilitate and manage their dealings with our clients, including the Top 500 and Next 5000 programs.
• Applying your tax expertise across various sectors of the Australian economy.
• Assist in effectively managing a client portfolio and cultivating strong client relationships.
• Mentoring junior team members, dedicating time to their professional development.

What we look for  

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Commerce or Accounting
• CA qualification (or on the path to completing CA or an equivalent qualification)
• Minimum 3+ years experience providing Australian tax compliance or business advisory services to corporate entities, high-wealth high-net worth individuals and private family groups
• Excellent understanding of accounting concepts and experience in preparing financial statements for a variety of entities including trusts and companies
• Demonstrated ability to research and interpret taxation legislation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

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