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Working at EY UK

  • Company employees
    400000
  • Gender diversity (m:f)
    52:48

Hiring in

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Office locations

Join EY as a Senior Manager - Indirect Tax based in Newcastle, Edinburgh or Glasgow. In this senior leadership role, you will drive the VAT practice forward, lead delivery teams, manage complex consulting projects, and build lasting client relationships.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in VAT from a professional services background or in-house team.
  • Strong business development, communication, and project management skills.
  • ATT, ACA, CA, or CTA qualifications are preferred but not required.
  • Experience leading, coaching, and mentoring staff.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • VAT expertise: Provide pragmatic commercial help to improve day-to-day reporting, reduce errors, and handle complex transactions.
  • Business development: Identify and convert opportunities to sell work by managing existing clients and winning new ones.
  • Team leadership: Create, support, sustain, and lead effective teams while coaching junior staff.
  • Project management: Oversee the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects.
  • Potential transition routes: People from senior tax manager or corporate tax roles may bring strong technical advisory and client management skills, alongside meeting the core indirect tax experience requirements.

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, 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 VAT professionals help clients identify opportunities and mitigate indirect tax risks. They use their deep sector experience and knowledge of different legal and regulatory systems around the world to help clients meet their compliance obligations as well as achieve their business goals.

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, advising on complex transactions and ensuring indirect taxes are handled correctly. They may also advise how indirect taxes such as value added tax (VAT) impinge on the client’s supply chain and financial and accounting systems.

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Manager to join our regional team to help drive the VAT practice forward. The opportunity would ideally suit a professional with a broad level of experience with clients in many industry sectors. The role can be based in either Newcastle, Edinburgh or Glasgow.

Your key responsibilities

  • Enthusiastic Senior Manager with ability to create, support, sustain and lead effective teams
  • Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day leadership of delivery team
  • Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
  • Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training international tax professionals
  • Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments
  • Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
  • Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
  • Business development skills - able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients and winning new clients.
  • High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven 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
  • Contribute to successfully extracting 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

What we look for

  • Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work

  • Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines

  • Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral

  • Significant experience in VAT from a professional services background or in-house team

  • ATT / ACA / CA or CTA would be an advantage but are not a requirement

  • The role would suit an existing Senior Manager, but we are happy to discuss the opportunity with an experienced, ambitious Manager

Ideally, you’ll also have

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

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.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

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EY UK

Senior Manager - Indirect Tax

Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle

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