Director, Private Capital Transactions, London

Overview

As a Director in EY’s FTTA Private Capital Transactions tax team, you drive tax due diligence, structuring, and deal support for high-profile transactions. You’ll work across buy- and sell-side engagements, collaborating with global tax networks to deliver technically excellent and commercially focused tax services. You guide client relationships, develop teams, and shape the strategy and operations of the practice. This is a chance to influence how clients navigate complex tax issues in a dynamic market.

Pay / Benefits

• continuous learning
• flexible working arrangements
• transformative leadership
• diverse and inclusive culture

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong client tax relationships and deliver world-class service
• Help win new work by managing existing clients and contributing to new client acquisition
• Oversee successful delivery of tax projects with a balance of technical excellence and deal mindset
• Extract maximum value for EY and clients while appropriately managing risk
• Demonstrate client-centric, strategic, and commercial awareness
• Communicate effectively in written and oral forms across various contexts
• Develop internal networks and external relationships for the team
• Mentor and develop junior staff through coaching and supervision
• Participate in team strategy and operations and oversee junior staff development and assignments

Key requirements

• Experienced UK tax practitioner with expertise in Restructuring Tax
• ACA/ATT/CTA or international equivalent / Law qualification
• Degree qualified

• Client-focused
• Strategic and commercially aware
• Excellent communicator
• Tax due diligence
• Tax structuring
• Funds flow

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