Consultant / Senior Consultant, TAX Legal (Geneva/Zürich)
In a world that’s changing faster than ever, our purpose acts as our ‘North Star’ guiding our more than 260,000 people - providing the context and meaning for the work we do every day. In doing so, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, clients and communities. Thanks to our innovative services in auditing, tax consulting as well as transaction and management consulting, we proudly lead our clients into the future.
As the only one of the Big 4 with a specialist cross-border practice dedicated to the Financial Services Sector, we offer our clients seamless, consistent and high-quality services around the globe.
What you can expect - enriching experiences that will last a lifetime
We are looking for staff with a solid foundation in data management: comfortable with sftp, SQL, and data validation (securities static and transactional data). You need to be able to work with a high degree of autonomy whilst managing multiple stakeholders, and to be open to new experiences and to learning new concepts and skills. Whilst the focus would be taxation aspects of financial securities data, there is no limit to the potential scope of your involvement in applying modern tools to develop solutions to tax problems.
Experience with private wealth management and/or personal taxes would be highly regarded, as would good French and German.
If this sounds like you, then our dynamic, Swiss-wide team is the place for you to achieve this. Working with nearly the entire financial services industry (banks of every size and type as well as insurers, financial infrastructure providers, blockchain-based businesses, asset managers, trust companies, family offices, fintechs and more) with a wide variety of tax challengers, in close collaboration with our colleagues in Europe and across the globe, as well as our advisory and assurance colleagues, we will provide you with the support, team and challenges you need in either Geneva or Zurich.
What you can contribute - skills for shaping the future
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You are a reliable team player with good communication skills
- You find working with multiple stakeholders, managing priorities and daily challenges rewarding.
- You have an entrepreneurial spirit and are eager to move out of your comfort zone.
- You have an independent, structured and detail-oriented working style, and enjoy finding solutions to complex problems.
- You communicate confidently in any English (written and spoken) and ideally at least one of French or German. Any additional languages would be an advantage.
Key skills that you should have or be willing to rapidly acquire:
- Solid Microsoft Excel skills
- Understanding of financial transaction data
- Understanding of financial products
- Familiarity with tax relevant financial data
- Understanding of taxation of financial products
- Familiarity with SQL database and (at least) basic scripting
- Basic project management
- Data analysis
- Data security awareness working in strict data privacy environments
Do you have challenging plans? Stick to them and realize your goals with us! Design your career with EY in a culture that promotes diversity and education.
- International multi-cultural team of highly motivated advisory professionals
- Constant personal development with a steep learning curve - a system of trainings, mentoring, counselling and on-the-job learning
- Modern working environment and equipment, fostering mobile working flexibility
- Transparent performance-based recognition and progression system
Find out more here about the many benefits to which you are entitled as employee at EY.
Become part of our high-performing teams!
Do the next step and apply for this position online. For further information please contact our recruitment team (recruitment.switzerland@ey.com / +41 58 286 33 66).