Senior Advisor, International Tax and Transaction Services, Financial Services

Senior Advisor, International Tax and Transaction Services, Financial Services, London
- Leeds

Location:

London

Other locations:
Primary Location Only

Date: 30 Aug 2026

Requisition

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The opportunity
This is a period of unprecedented change in the global international tax arena, which is resulting in huge demand in the market for specialised tax advisory services.

We have ambitious growth plans in our FS ITTS team. If you’re a senior advisor with an interest in Banking, Insurance and/or Wealth & Asset Management and want to further develop or build on your industry knowledge, you can be certain that as a Tax Senior within our team you’ll be joining a group which offers you unrivalled opportunities to work on a broad range of advisory opportunities from smaller inbound clients to huge multinationals.

EY’s global merger of its International Tax and Transaction Tax teams means that ITTS professionals can also advise on the structuring aspects of some of the largest corporate and private equity M&A deals and due to this unique structure, we can offer variety and/or specialism. Professionals in our team may work across our sub-sectors;
Banking, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management; or may specialise in any one of these.

• Contributing to building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service
• Help managing the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
• Identifying opportunities – use your knowledge gained from other projects and from our knowledge sharing sessions and technical training to add input to projects and proposals
• Building your own strong client and internal relationships - develop and use your relationship skills to create your own external and internal networks
• Developing your own skills from learning and in practice to support your own career as a tax advisor of the future.

• Client driven and strategically and commercially aware
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both in writing and speaking
• Self starter, enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
• Strong and motivated team player
• Coaching and developing more junior staff

• Experience as a tax practitioner with reviewing skills
• Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)
• Experience of working with financial services clients (desirable)
• An undergraduate/postgraduate degree or with equivalent work experience

You’ll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues so that you can better advise our clients. The types of project you’ll contribute towards may include:

• Pre-merger reorganisations and post-merger integration
• Optimisation of capital structure and financing
• Managing the risk arising from global law change such as BEPS
• Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in UK and globally

In return we’ll provide investment in the right sort of training and offer you the opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop and challenge you so that you’re in the best place to further develop as tax professional.

Whatever the projects and assignments you work on you can be confident that you’re contributing towards helping our clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest…