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The opportunity
EY Tax is a market leader, renowned for delivering sustainable growth and empowering our people to shape their own careers. Our diverse, collaborative team advises on high-profile transactions, combining technical expertise, innovation and a genuine focus on continuous development. Join us to work on challenging, multi-country projects in a supportive, dynamic environment where your impact truly matters.
Our Indirect Tax professionals provide pragmatic commercial help so clients improve their day-to-day reporting for indirect tax. This includes improving working capital, reducing errors, reducing costs and ensuring indirect taxes are handled correctly. They advise how indirect taxes such as value added tax (VAT) or goods & services tax (GST) impinge on the client’s supply chain and financial and accounting systems.
We are looking for a Director to join our London team within our market leading Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction team (RHC) to help drive the VAT practice forward. The opportunity would ideally suit a professional with an extensive level of experience advising clients across a wide range of industry sectors. The ideal candidate will possess a proven track record in VAT advisory at a senior level, demonstrating strategic leadership and the ability to manage complex client engagements. We welcome applications from individuals who also have expertise in other Indirect Taxes and emerging technologies, with a strong history of delivering innovative solutions and mentoring high-performing teams.
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Your Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership to build, inspire and sustain high-performing teams, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration across the practice
- Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day leadership of delivery team
- Help the development of team members by supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
- Play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the team’s strategic and operational direction
- Drive collaboration and integration with other service lines and teams across EY, ensuring the seamless delivery of comprehensive, cross-disciplinary client solutions
Skills And Attributes For Success
What we look for
- Strategic self-starter with a demonstrable record of delivering complex, high-impact projects to an exceptional standard
- Client-focused and commercially astute, adept at fostering and sustaining key client relationships at senior levels
- Proven business development leader with the ability to identify, pursue, and secure significant new opportunities for the practice
- Advanced time management and organisational skills, consistently maintaining composure and clarity whilst overseeing multiple deadlines and priorities
- Excellent communicator, able to influence and engage effectively with stakeholders through both written reports and oral presentations
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to motivate and develop team members
- Significant (8+ years’) experience in UK indirect tax advisory and experience in advising on complex cross border indirect tax projects from a large accountancy or in-house team
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- Professional qualifications - ACA/ACCA/ATT/CTA or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
What We Offer You
At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.
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