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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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