Tax - ITTS - FTTA - Funds Tax - Director - London

Location: London

Our FTTA Funds tax team works with the world’s largest private equity clients, focusing on the areas of the deals market that are developing the quickest.

We are currently looking to expand our FTTA Funds Tax team and are keen to speak with experienced Tax Advisors.

The opportunity

In this team, you will get wide-ranging experience in all the core areas of transactional work – including private equity, infrastructure and clean-tech, distressed debt and turnaround transactions, and restructuring.

Your key responsibilities

• Contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of tax services to the client, building and maintaining tax relationships with clients to provide high levels of client service.
• Contribute to winning new work by proactively managing existing clients and ensure technical excellence and a practical/business focus approach.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients, winning work proactively and contributing to winning new clients.
• Manage the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business focus approach taken.
• Overall responsibility of quality of client service.
• Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice.
• Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from.
• Develop junior staff through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring.
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing staff development and assignments.

Skills and attributes for success

• Client focus and commercially aware.
• Strong international and UK tax technical skills and understanding.
• Commitment to building strong client relationship management with ability to develop quality outputs to clients.
• Negotiation skills and handle challenges.
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work.
• Strong business acumen with ability to manage engagement financial results.
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.
• Enthusiastic team player with ability to create, sustain effective teams.
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day delivery.
• Change orientated and innovative with flexible approach to ways of working and adoption of new technologies.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Experienced tax practitioner with deep experience of tax transactions.
• Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification).
• Graduate or equivalent work experience.
• Experience of managing a team and/or coaching and developing team members.
• Project management skills, plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget.

What we offer

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching, and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.

EY is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.