Compliance Specialist - EY - #1665685

Join EY's Financial Services (FS) Tax practice as a Senior Advisor and you will be helping clients meet the complex demands of today's tax environment. You will help to manage relationships with some of our key local and national clients, both delivering services and introducing deep specialists to them as required.

You will help them understand the tax implications of political, regulatory, accounting and law changes and build in sustainable strategies to deal with them. With a focus on tax compliance and tax reporting specifically for clients in the Real Estate sector you will also have the opportunity to get involved in advisory and transactions.

The opportunity

EY has ambitious plans to develop and expand in National Markets, including Edinburgh and further develop our high performing teams. Working in our FS Global Compliance and Reporting (GCR) team will allow you to serve and strengthen relationships with our clients locally and make significant contributions to a number of national accounts.

Our FS Global Compliance and Reporting team has grown rapidly over recent years to 120 people and created the need for local tax expertise specialised in the sector. Joining the team will give you the unique opportunity to influence, shape and mould the tax practice whilst gaining invaluable experience. You will have the opportunity to bring your expertise to help drive the growth of our business and build key relationships with prestigious clients. Playing a key role in this success will give you the skills you need to propel your career to the highest level, while gaining a broader experience than you might receive in larger teams.

If you're creative, innovative, curious and looking to progress in your career this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Your key responsibilities

• Contributing to building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service


• Ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken on all projects


• Identifying and driving opportunities - use your knowledge gained from other projects and from our knowledge sharing sessions and technical training to add input to new 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


• Counsel and develop more junior staff through delegation and on the job training

• Strategically and commercially aware


• Ability to build strong client relationships and committed to delivery of exceptional client service


• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.


• Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work


• Strong and motivated team player who integrates with new teams quickly


• Coaching and developing more junior staff


• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out effective reviews and know when to refer upwards

• Experience in corporate tax compliance with a large accountancy or law firm, HMRC or in-house tax team


• Any of the following preferred: ACA / ACCA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)


• Graduate/graduate calibre or equivalent work experience

• Project management experience


• Experience in Real Estate tax compliance, particularly REITs

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

• Tax reporting


• Tax compliance


• General advisory and applying new tax legislation


• Impact of regulation and regulatory reporting


• Tax due diligence and structuring advice


• Managing relationships with HMRC

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 levels of client service.