Location – London (open to flexible working)
This opportunity is for a tax professional to help international and multinational companies align their global tax position with their business strategy, in order to maintain competitive advantage and provide shareholder value.
Our client’s Financial Services (FS) Tax practice is the largest such practice in the UK with a fine reputation for sector expertise and close, trusted adviser, relationships across a broad range of FS clients including globally systemic financial institutions and niche new market entrants and disruptors. The FS practice is run on an EMEIA basis providing market differentiated capability for seamless client service on the Europe-wide tax advisory projects which the market is demanding.
The ITTS team advises a wide range of clients across the Banking, Insurance and Wealth & Asset Management sectors, including having advised on many high-profile transactions and deals reported in the press over the past few years with top FS multinationals. The partners are well known and respected in the market and the work is technically challenging, creative and requires you to work closely with clients’ businesses.
The global merger of the International Tax and Transaction Tax teams means that ITTS professionals can also advise on the structuring aspects of some of the largest corporate M&A deals and due to this unique structure, this role can offer variety and/or specialism. Professionals in the team may work across different sub-sectors; Banking, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management; or may specialise in any one of these.
Your key responsibilities
- Contributing to building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service – manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken.
- Identifying and driving opportunities – use your knowledge gained from other projects, technical training and knowledge sharing sessions to add input to projects and proposals
- Building your own strong client and internal relationships – develop and use your relationship skills to create your own external and internal networks in the Banking, Insurance or Wealth & Asset Management markets
- Counsel and develop junior staff through delegation and on the job training
Skills and attributes
- Strong tax advisory technical skills
- Client driven and strategically and commercially aware
- Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.
- Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
- Strong and motivated team player
- Coaching and developing more junior staff
You’ll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues so that you can better advise clients.
The types of project you’ll contribute towards may include:
- Expansion into new markets
- Pre-merger reorganisations and post-merger integration
- Organisational structure rationalisation
- Business model redesign
- Optimisation of capital structure and financing
- Managing the risk arising from global law change such as BEPS
- Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in UK and globally
In return you will be provided with investment in the right sort of training and offered the opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop and challenge you so that you’re in the best place to further develop as tax professional.
You will be offered a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. A comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with flexible working you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.
To qualify for the role, you must have
- Expertise in international tax
- Any of the following preferred: ACA / CTA / legal qualification or equivalent
- Previous people management
- Experience of coaching and developing more junior team members
- Experience of working with financial services clients