Personal Tax Advisor - Private Client Services

The Private Tax team at EY acts for a wide range of entrepreneurial, owner managed, Family Owned and PE backed businesses together with their shareholders.

We are trusted advisers to our clients and deliver a broad range of tax advisory and compliance services to the corporate entities, including reorganisations, transaction structuring & assistance and ongoing tax advisory in relation to the client's day to day operations.

The opportunity

We are looking for an ambitious and motivated personal tax specialist to join EY's successful and dynamic Private Tax Team based in Scotland. The role includes working with a wide range of successful private businesses, providing a great opportunity to work in a client facing, 'hands on' role to deliver exceptional outputs and service to our clients. There will also be the opportunity to contribute to developing the practice, expanding networks and winning new business.

A personal tax specialist is sought for this role however candidates with a mixed personal and corporate tax background are also encouraged to apply given the wide and diverse nature of the role and team that you would be working in.

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients
• Proactive business development to win new work
• Support of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business focused approach taken

• Technical and practical knowledge and experience in advising UK and non-UK domiciled individuals and families, in particular inheritance tax and trusts, capital gains and income tax.
• Strategically and commercially aware
• Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
• Ability to solve the complex needs of your client
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Enthusiastic team player with ability to create, sustain and manage effective teams
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day responsibility of delivery team

• ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Law qualification / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
• Strong tax technical skills
• Business development skills, be able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work