Director, International Corporate Tax Advisory, UK Nationwide

Company: EY
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Location: City of Edinburgh
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, taking your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help build a better working world.

Director – Open to flexible working

We’re offering an exciting opportunity to join our International Corporate Tax Advisory (ICTA) team, a market leader in international corporate tax advisory and cross‑border M&A. This pure tax advisory role involves advising the largest corporations worldwide on international tax issues, working with top international tax Partners and a high‑performing team that has handled many large, complex, high‑profile projects.

The opportunity

The combination of experience and innovation in our team makes it an exciting place to work and a place where you can accelerate development into a skilled and renowned international tax adviser. You’ll work with large UK and foreign‑owned MNCs on complex projects, focusing on strategies such as:

  • Expansion into new markets
  • Pre‑transaction reorganisations and post‑transaction integration
  • M&A deal structuring
  • Legal structure rationalisation
  • Operating model redesign
  • Optimisation of capital structure and financing
  • Optimisation of intellectual property ownership and reliefs
  • Managing risks from global law changes such as BEPS

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain client relationships, proactively winning work and growing existing clients.
  • Manage the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding advisory projects, ensuring technical excellence and a practical/commercial focus.
  • Overall responsibility for quality of client service.
  • Build networks internally and externally, collaborating with other EY teams globally to identify and capitalise on opportunities.
  • Build and develop client engagement teams, supervising, coaching and mentoring junior staff.
  • Significant involvement in team strategy and operations, including managing junior staff development and assignments.

Skills And Attributes For Success

  • Client focus and commercial awareness.
  • Strong UK tax technical skills with cross‑border focus (e.g., CFCs, anti‑hybrid rules, loan relationships, intellectual property, Pillar 2).
  • Commitment to building strong client relationships and delivering quality outputs.
  • Negotiation skills and ability to handle complexity and nuance.
  • Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to grow market.
  • Strong business acumen and ability to manage engagement financial results.
  • Effective time‑management, remaining calm under pressure to meet deadlines.
  • Excellent communicator in varied situations.
  • Enthusiastic team player, able to create and sustain high‑performing teams.
  • Change‑oriented and innovative, flexible in ways of working and adoption of new technologies.

To qualify for the role, you must have

  • Strong tax technical skills and significant experience providing tax advice to large MNCs on complex, cross‑border issues.
  • Qualifications: ATT/ACA/CA/CTA preferred.
  • Experience managing a team and/or coaching and developing junior staff.

What We Offer

  • Continuous learning and skill development.
  • Success as defined by you, with tools and flexibility.
  • Transformative leadership support.
  • Diverse and inclusive culture.

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Posted: May 16th, 2026