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Global Compliance & Reporting (GCR) is one of our six tax service lines. Our GCR professionals help businesses meet demands for tax reporting, tax compliance and tax risk management. Many of our engagements are with clients going through wider tax transformation and operating model change programmes. Our GCR team work with a wide range of businesses to help them develop and implement effective, practical and sustainable approaches to managing tax compliance and reporting.

The opportunity

The Global Services team works with leading organisations (FTSE100 and Fortune 500 companies) across a range of services from full tax and finance operate outsourcing, supporting with the design and implementation of their tax operating model, compliance process design and the project management of outsourced compliance and reporting services.

As a Senior Associate in this energetic and diverse team, you will have opportunity to gain experience across these services, further develop your skills and have day-to-day contact with senior team members at our clients.

Your key responsibilities

• Contract management
  • Support a number of GCR contracts, some with client interface and some in a supervisory service delivery role
  • Proactively managing service delivery risk across those contracts through the use of issue and risk logs and the implementation of escalation processes
  • Developing and maintaining relationships with key contract stakeholders (internal and external) across multiple jurisdictions, and ensuring effective and timely communication
  • Help manage contract governance including adherence to agreed process and procedures
  • Help manage contract reporting against service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) ensuring timely resolution of issues
  • Provide guidance to juniors and support to peers, colleagues and clients on contractual issues, and oversee local fee and scope negotiations
  • Focus on the successful delivery of projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business approach taken

• Quality and Risk Management
  • Supporting the Global Engagement leader on Quality & Risk Management (QRM) matters, overseeing implementation and adherence to agreed processes, procedures and timetables
  • Liaising with Global and Tax QRM and legal teams in the resolution of client service management issues
  • Providing Support to help maintain the specified contractual framework and supporting agreements for all engagements

• Detailed scoping and process assessments
  • Review and suggesting improvements to compliance and reporting processes considering data sources, hand-off points and controls

• Business development and proposal assistance
  • Working with the Global Engagement Leader to support pursuit and proposal activities, in response to client RFPs. This includes running global pricing exercises and being a part of EY’s presentation team at client presentations
  • Support development of client business case for change
  • Identify opportunities for additional EY services and / or extensions to EY outsourcing services for existing EY clients

• Compliance methodology
  • Sharing successful tools, techniques and approaches with other GCR team members;
  • Project managing small GCR development projects

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
• Business development skills, able to identify new opportunities to sell work
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Some experience of coaching and developing more junior staff
• Change orientated with flexible approach
• Innovative mindset with a focus on problem solving

To qualify foe the role, you must have:

• Experience in Corporate Tax, Indirect Tax or accountancy from a professional services firm or in-house team
• ACA / CA / ATTI/CTA/Tax Inspectors or a breadth of knowledge equivalent to a tax specialist qualification
• Proven project management skills, and an ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget. A PRINCE2 qualification or similar would be beneficial.
• Experience of working on international projects
• Process and technology design skills
• An undergraduate or post-graduate degree

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project management skills, plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
• Experience working on multi-jurisdictional projects

What we look for

• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
• Individual with an understanding of tax regimes
• Ability to work across a range of projects and clients often with tight deadlines

What we offer

As part of this role, you'll work in a highly integrated, global team with the opportunity and tools to grow, develop and drive your career forward. Here, you can combine global opportunity with flexible working. The EY benefits package goes above and beyond too, focusing on your physical, emotional, financial and social well-being. Your recruiter can talk to you about the benefits available in your country. Here’s a snapshot of what we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please apply to this role only through the ‘Apply’ link (not through the local office). Your application will then be routed to the appropriate recruiting team.

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