Director, Transfer Pricing, UK Wide

The opportunity

EY Tax is a market leader in transfer pricing, advising high profile businesses on complex inter company arrangements. Within transfer pricing, our diverse, collaborative team advises clients on challenges across multiple countries. Join us to work on challenging, multi country projects in a supportive, dynamic environment where your impact genuinely matters.

Your key responsibilities

• Shape and articulate solutions to complex technical problems working with stakeholders from EY, clients, and tax authority contacts.
• Prepare high quality technical deliverables across a broad range of complex transfer pricing issues to a standard ready for Partner review.
• Lead the efficient and successful delivery of technically complex and demanding transfer pricing projects, ensuring technical excellence and a practical/business driven approach that creates value for the client.
• Utilise EY's market leading technology and AI enabled solutions in delivering client services, and contribute to the continued development of these technology solutions.
• Build, maintain, and lead relationships with key client contacts to provide high levels of service, focusing on technical excellence and a practical/business driven approach.
• Actively seek to partner with a diverse range of EY client serving teams to identify new opportunities, expand the scope of existing engagements, and provide specialist support in the delivery of complex engagements spanning a range of tax and commercial issues.
• Utilise commercial networks and relationships internally and externally and manage resulting flows of opportunities.
• Contribute to the development and growth of junior staff through effective supervision, coaching, and mentoring.
• Lead practice development initiatives, e.g. thought leadership, people initiatives, or business development.

Skills and attributes for success

What we look for:

• Significant transfer pricing experience, technical expertise through all stages of the transfer pricing lifecycle, and a proactive approach to continued professional development.
• Ability to quickly build strong relationships across all levels, both with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills in a range of situations-both written and oral-and the ability to flex style to match the audience, including experience dealing with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out effective reviews, and know when to refer issues upwards.
• Client focused mindset and strong commercial awareness.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically, taking a strategic approach.
• Significant experience in managing, coaching, and developing junior members of the team.
• Project management skills, the ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, and monitor own budget and time.

Ideally, you'll also

• Hold an ACA, CA, ACCA, CTA, or Tax Inspector qualification with full Technical Training Course; or a Law qualification; or a CFA; or have breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification.
• Parlay proven ability to read and interpret existing and new tax statute.

What we offer you

At EY, we'll develop you with future focused skills and equip you with world class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams.

Commitment to inclusiveness

Inclusiveness is a longstanding business priority for EY, embedded in EY values, All in strategy, Global Code of Conduct, our employee value proposition, and Inclusion and Non discrimination Global Policy.