Join EY as a Senior Manager, Private Client Services, Tax based in Belfast or Derry, Londonderry, offering a full-time schedule with flexible working support and a competitive remuneration package. In this role, you will manage complex tax advisory projects, oversee compliance client portfolios, and mentor junior team members.
Requirements
Required: ACA, CTA, Law qualification, Tax specialist qualification, or equivalent breadth of knowledge.
Required: Strong tax technical skills and experience coaching more junior staff.
Preferred: Project management skills and the ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically.
Skills & Responsibilities
Tax Technical Expertise: Deliver technically complex and demanding advisory projects, private equity transaction analysis, and tax compliance services for entrepreneurs and high net worth individuals.
Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain trusted relationships with clients, providing exceptional client service and strategic commercial awareness.
Team Leadership & Development: Provide supervision, coaching, and mentoring to junior members of the team while contributing to training initiatives.
Potential transition routes: People from wealth management, legal advisory, or corporate finance roles may bring strong client management and analytical skills, alongside meeting the required tax professional qualifications and technical expertise.
Job description
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Private Client Services – Personal Tax – Manager or SM
The Private Tax team at EY acts for a wide range of entrepreneurial, owner managed, PE backed businesses together with their shareholders, in addition to family offices, ultra-high net worth individuals, private equity and high-profile professional partnerships. We aim to be trusted advisers to our clients and deliver a broad range of tax advisory services, including tax efficient value extraction and value creation, reorganisations, international tax advisory, transactions and ongoing maintenance of the tax structure of our clients.
The services that we deliver include tax return compliance services, UK tax reporting and tax analysis for private equity houses and its UK investors, advice on residence and domicile issues, transaction and reorganisation advice, optimisation of wealth from a tax perspective, estate and succession tax advice and deal and fund structuring analysis.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and ambitious individual to join EY’s specialist Private Tax team based in Belfast. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to work with our excellent existing clients, providing a great opportunity to build and expand their network.
We are currently looking to expand our team and are keen to speak with experienced Tax Managers, who have a proven track record of building trusted relationships with clients, and have a passion for delivering exceptional client service. EY is investing significantly in the Private Tax team, and we are looking for the right individual to join our team and help deliver for our clients at this exciting time.
Your key responsibilities
Be responsible for a portfolio of tax return compliance clients and build and maintain relationships with these clients
Management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding advisory projects for their clients, ensuring technical excellence and a practical / business driven approach
Management of private equity transaction analysis for PE fund clients,
Provision of development support to junior members of the team through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring
Contribution to people initiatives, including retaining and training our team
Skills and attributes for success
Client driven and strategically and commercially aware
Strong tax technical skills
Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
Good knowledge of advising a range of individuals which may include entrepreneurs, shareholders of family-owned businesses, private equity executives, cross – border individuals, UHNWI, estates and trusts.
To qualify for the role you must have
ACA / CTA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Law qualification / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
Strong tax technical skills
Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff
Ideally you’ll also have
Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically
What we look for
Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
Outgoing with good relationship skills
The ability to deliver quality output in a timely and efficient manner
What working at EY offers
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:
Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible
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