Join EY as a Tax Director in the Financial Services International Tax and Transaction Services (FS ITTS) team, located UK Wide (Southampton - Grosvenor House). In this full-time role, you will lead complex multi-country tax projects, advise major financial services clients, and drive business growth within a flexible environment.
Requirements
Significant experience as a tax practitioner with expertise in international tax and financial services clients.
Ideally hold a relevant professional qualification such as ATT, ACA, CA, CTA, or an equivalent legal qualification.
Strong commercial awareness, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Commitment to coaching and developing junior colleagues.
Skills & Responsibilities
International tax expertise: Lead the successful delivery of complex tax projects, pre-transaction reorganisations, and international tax risk management.
Business development: Identify and develop new commercial opportunities, contributing to proposals to grow the financial services tax offering.
Client relationship management: Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across banking, insurance, and wealth management.
Team leadership and coaching: Mentor and develop junior colleagues through delegation and on-the-job feedback.
Potential transition routes: People from senior tax manager or legal advisory roles may bring strong technical tax skills and commercial acumen, alongside meeting the required professional background and stakeholder management experience.
Job description
At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.
We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.
Join EY and help to build a better working world.
The opportunity
EY Tax is a market leader, supporting clients through complex business and tax challenges while giving our people the opportunity to build rewarding, varied careers.
We have ambitious growth plans for our Financial Services International Tax and Transaction Services (FS ITTS) team and are looking for an experienced Senior Manager or Director to join us as a Tax Director.
This is an opportunity to deepen your expertise across Banking, Insurance and/or Wealth & Asset Management, while working with a diverse range of clients, from growing inbound businesses to large multinational organisations.
You’ll advise on complex, often multi-country projects and transactions, combining strong technical expertise with commercial insight. You’ll also play an important role in developing client relationships, originating new opportunities and coaching the next generation of talent within the team.
The types of projects you’ll contribute to may include
Expansion into new markets
Pre-transaction reorganisations and post-transaction integrations
Organisational structure rationalisation
Business model redesign
Managing tax risk arising from international developments, including BEPS and ATAD
Engagement and negotiation with tax authorities in the UK and internationally
Buy-side and sell-side tax due diligence and structuring
Optimisation of capital and financing structures
Tax modelling
Your key responsibilities
As a Tax Director, you’ll combine technical expertise, commercial judgement and relationship management to deliver high-quality outcomes for our clients. You’ll be responsible for:
Building trusted client relationships, delivering exceptional service and becoming a valued adviser to senior stakeholders
Leading the successful delivery of complex tax projects, ensuring technical excellence alongside practical, commercially focused advice
Identifying and developing new opportunities, drawing on your experience, market awareness and the wider knowledge of EY
Contributing to proposals and business development, helping to grow our Financial Services tax offering
Building strong internal and external networks to create opportunities for collaboration and growth
Leading and developing junior colleagues, providing coaching, delegation and meaningful on-the-job development
Skills and attributes for success
We’re looking for someone who can bring strong technical capability together with commercial awareness and a genuine interest in clients and people.
You’ll be:
Client-focused, strategic and commercially aware
A confident communicator, with strong written and verbal communication skills
Comfortable building relationships and influencing senior stakeholders
Collaborative, motivated and committed to delivering as part of a high-performing team
Adaptable and enthusiastic, with the ability to navigate a varied portfolio of work
Committed to coaching and developing more junior colleagues
Ideally, you’ll also have
Significant experience as a tax practitioner, including strong reviewing skills and expertise in international tax
Experience working with Financial Services clients
A relevant professional qualification such as ATT, ACA, CA or CTA, or equivalent breadth of technical knowledge, for example through a legal 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.
Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.
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