Indirect Tax Vat - Assistant Manager Job in Ernst & Young Global Limited

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Our tax department is growing and our EY GDS Indirect Tax Center is currently looking for an Assistant Manager Indirect Tax/VAT to join our offices:

Tasks & responsibilities

As an Assistant Manager in the EY GDS Indirect Tax Center, you will actively work on the finalized deliverables on projects/services in the domain of Indirect Tax / VAT. Your main responsibilities as an Assistant Manager are:

• Act as point of contact for the VAT Controller (Manager) and Process Owner ('Senior Manager')
• Identify issues and opportunities to continuously improve the VAT compliance processes.
• Proposing improvement possibilities to raise effectiveness and efficiency of the work processes.
• Assist the client serving team with resolution of any out of scope activities
• Maintenance of technology tools so as to ensure all returns are archived at the end of the compliance cycle
• Support the Reviewer ('Senior') in case of issues encountered during the preparation of the returns
• Final review of the periodical indirect tax compliance calendar and sending this to client
• High level knowledge and experience of a local country Indirect Tax Compliance
• Understanding of Global Indirect Tax Compliance and the associated processes
• Preparation of update calls with client (agenda of client call)
• Coordinator between GDS and VAT Controller & Process Owner
• Understand what opportunities are out there that might be relevant to your clients from a GCR Indirect Tax perspective
• Fully understand the scope of work on your particular client to identify if anything we do is "out of scope"
• Seek to get involved in drafting emails to clients for out of scope work
• Work collaboratively with the VAT Controller in identifying opportunities
• Be inquisitive about what our clients do, the problems and challenges they have by understanding their business
• Broaden and deepen your relationship with your client contact
• Follow up on legislative changes and business changes in order to ensure that the systems and/or processes are updated.
• VAT compliance advisory and VAT audit support.
• Understand client's business
• Final review of indirect tax returns
• Stay up-to-date regarding market changes and develop a broader knowledge around your client portfolio.
• Maintain long-term collaborative and profitable relationships with your client and pro-actively identify and inform of possible new missions or opportunities in the existing portfolio
• Actively participate to the training and coaching session of your development plan and be responsible for the development of your own technical knowledge.

People responsibilities

• Creates a positive team environment, balancing individual initiative with team collaboration and with EY priorities.
• * Assemble the right teams to achieve goals by creating the right mix of skills and right conditions to work together effectively
• * Nurtures environment where others can communicate openly and honestly, and proactively connects different people in order to come up with better solutions and ideas.
• Demonstrates exceptional commitment to team success; making a measurable impact to the experience and development of team members.
• * Able to identify and recommend development activities tailored to each team members needs and learning style
• Actively contributes to the retention and recruitment of a high performing, diverse, team.

• A Bachelor/Master degree in economics, potentially with a supplementary degree in fiscal matters.
• At least 4-5 years of relevant professional experience in European VAT and VAT compliance required
• Good knowledge of general VAT principles
• Fluent in English written and spoken
• Dynamic, innovative & problem resolution focus with good communication skills
• Team player with project management skills
• Excellent knowledge about functioning/usage of ERP-systems
• Shows great interest in working with multi-country clients
• Is capable of working independently
• Is able to detect potential opportunities where EY could assist
• Delegation of work
• Proactively involves all team members in client discussions, particularly around out of scope work and new opportunities

• Direct Tax Compliance
• Statutory Reporting
• Bookkeeping;
• Corporate Secretarial
• Service Management
• Pricing
• Investment Products Tax
• Payroll

• A challenging position within a leading international company with room for personal and professional development.
• Room for personal development.
• An interesting salary package with fringe benefits.