Senior Indirect Tax Advisor - Scotland

The opportunity

Our Indirect Tax professionals provide pragmatic commercial help so clients improve their day-to-day reporting for indirect tax. This includes improving working capital, reducing errors, reducing costs and ensuring indirect taxes are handled correctly. They advise how indirect taxes such as value added tax (VAT) impinge on the client’s supply chain and financial and accounting systems.

We are looking for a confident Indirect Tax professional to join the team as a Senior.

• Support senior members of the team in building and maintaining tax relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service
• Support senior members of the team in building relationships both within the firm and externally with clients, identifying opportunities and managing expectations
• Contribute to winning new work by proactively managing existing clients and contribute to winning new clients
• Support the senior members of the team in managing the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
• Responsible for day-to-day delivery of client liaison

• Relevant Tax experience within VAT
• Strong Tax technical skills and keen to develop further
• Ability to build strong client relationships
• Excellent communicator in range of situations both written and oral
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out an effective review and know when to refer upwards
• Client focused and commercially aware
• Team player with ability to build effective relationships at all levels

• UK VAT specialist experience from the profession or in-house team
• Ideally ATT / ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification. Formal qualifications are not mandatory, so please reach out if you have relevant experience

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

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.