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The Private Tax team at EY acts for a wide range of entrepreneurial, owner‑managed, PE‑backed and AIM‑listed businesses together with their shareholders and management teams, in addition to family offices, private equity and hedge fund principals, large‑owned estates and high‑profile professional partnerships.

We aim to be trusted advisers to our clients and deliver a broad range of tax advisory services, including cash tax savings and value creation, reorganisations, international tax advisory, transactions and ongoing maintenance of the tax structure of our clients. The team is a mix of advisers providing corporate and personal tax services to these businesses, their owners and management.

The services we deliver include advice to private equity houses and other sponsors and their investee companies on the structuring of management incentive plans both on a transaction and post‑transaction, advice to management teams themselves, advice to owner managers and founders on the occasion of a transaction, due diligence on employee share ownership and option plans and the structuring and reporting of management incentive plans.

Our client base is a mix of private equity and other funds, private companies and individuals. Our international network results in our team undertaking a high proportion of cross‑border tax services.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to join EY’s specialist Management Taxes and Transactions team based in London, Manchester, Glasgow or Edinburgh. The successful candidate will work with our excellent existing clients and intermediaries, building and expanding their network and being instrumental in winning new business.

Ideally, candidates will have knowledge of the issues impacting management teams; however, candidates without specific management taxes knowledge are also encouraged to apply given the wide and diverse nature of the role and the team you will be working with. We have successfully integrated individuals from private client, employment tax and corporate tax backgrounds in the past.

• Build and maintain relationships with clients
• Proactive business development to win new work
• Manage the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects for clients, ensuring technical excellence and a practical, business‑driven approach
• Provide development support to junior members of the team through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring
• Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training our team

• Client‑driven and strategically and commercially aware
• Strong tax technical skills
• Strong client relationship management skills with the ability to develop quality outputs for clients
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain an opinion and handle challenges
• 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
• Good knowledge of advising a range of individuals and/or companies, including AIM‑listed, PE‑backed, family‑owned and OMB entities, or experience in implementing management incentive plans or share‑option plans

• 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
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff

• Project management skills; plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically

• Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
• Outgoing with good…