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

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With thisbreadth of service offerings, you have the opportunity to develop your careerthrough a variety of experiences, mentoring and formal learning to ensure ouremployee value proposition Whenever you join, however long you stay, theexceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime is a reality.

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

Tasks & responsibilities

As an AssistantManager in the EY GDS Indirect Tax Center, you will actively work on thefinalized 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 Con

• troller (Manager) and Process Owner ('Senior Manager')

• Identify issues and opportunities to continuously improve the VATcompliance processes.

• Proposing improvement possibilities to raise effectiveness andefficiency of the work processes.

• Assist the client serving team with resolution of any out of scopeactivities

• Maintenance of technology tools so as to ensure all returns are archivedat the end of the compliance cycle

• Support the Reviewer ('Senior') in case of issues encountered during thepreparation of the returns

• Final review of the periodical indirect tax compliance calendar andsending this to client

• High level knowledge and experience of a local country Indirect TaxCompliance

• Understanding of Global Indirect Tax Compliance and the associatedprocesses

• 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 toyour clients from a GCR Indirect Tax perspective

• Fully understand the scope of work on your particular client to identifyif 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 identifyingopportunities

• Be inquisitive about what our clients do, the problems and challengesthey 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 ensurethat 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-dateregarding market changes and develop a broader knowledge around your clientportfolio.

• Maintainlong-term collaborative and profitable relationships with your client andpro-actively identify and inform of possible new missions or opportunities inthe existing portfolio

• Activelyparticipate to the training and coaching session of your development plan andbe responsible for the development of your own technical knowledge.

People responsibilities

• Creates a positive team environment, balancingindividual initiative with team collaboration and with EY priorities.

• * Assemble the right teams to achieve goals bycreating the right mix of skills and right conditions to work togethereffectively

• * Nurtures environment where others can communicateopenly and honestly, and proactively connects different people in order to comeup 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 developmentactivities tailored to each team members needs and learning style

• Actively contributes to the retention and recruitmentof a high performing, diverse, team.

We are looking for candidateswith the following background:

• A Bachelor/Master degree ineconomics, potentially with a supplementary degree in fiscal matters.

• At least 4-5 years of relevant professionalexperience in European VAT and VAT compliance required

• Good knowledge of general VAT principles

• Fluent in English written and spoken

• Dynamic, innovative & problem resolutionfocus with good communication skills

• Team player with project management skills

• Excellent knowledge about functioning/usage ofERP-systems

• Shows great interest in working withmulti-country clients

• Is capable of working independently

• Is able to detect potential opportunities whereEY could assist

• Delegation of work

• Proactively involves all team members in clientdiscussions, particularly around out of scope work and new opportunities

• Basic knowledge of the other services:

  Direct Tax Compliance

  Statutory Reporting

  Bookkeeping;

  Corporate Secretarial

  Service Management

  Pricing

  Investment Products Tax

  Payroll