Location – UK wide
A career in our client’s Merger and Acquisition Tax practice, within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients meet and manage their tax obligations across unique but ever changing tax specialties. You’ll advise local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing indirect taxes, dispute resolution, and global enterprise tax solutions.
The team helps with various aspects of a merger and acquisition transactions such as restructuring, divestiture, partnerships and insolvency. You’ll focus on helping clients establish treasury goals, analyse and quantify tax assets, assess tax risks, and model taxable income and cash flow impacts.
A career in the Deals Tax practice will provide you with the opportunity to help clients meet and manage their tax obligations through the transaction life cycle.
The team helps clients with various aspects of transactions (including acquisitions, restructuring and disposals), advising on the key local and overseas tax considerations. You’ll focus on helping clients analyse and quantify tax assets, assess tax risks, and model taxable income and cash flow impacts.
Key responsibilities
As a Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above
- Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
- Assist in the management and delivering of large projects
- Be involved in the financial management of clients
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
- Train, coach, and supervise staff, contributing to the development of your own and the team’s technical acumen and keeping up to date with business and economic issues
- Develop internal relationships and the company’s brand
You will be expected to work under your own initiative to draw on your own and other company expertise to deliver the tax aspects of Deals and help solve problems. A key aspect is liaising effectively with other advisers and managing and developing relationships with clients and junior members of the team.
The role offers high levels of responsibility, the satisfaction of working on interesting and challenging assignments and participation in a successful team as well as opportunities to develop new offerings and ways of delivering for clients.
Your day to day duties will include
- Managing tax advice and implications on an ever changing deal portfolio.
- Delivering bespoke tax advice, working closely with other M&A specialists as well as other parts of the company in order to best service your client’s needs.
- Working closely with other members of the team on a wide variety of deals.
Essential skills
- Evidence of leading complex M&A projects for key clients
- Experience of leading and coaching others
- A track record of successfully building client relationships
- Experience in building and leveraging internal and external relationships and networks
- An ability to plan and deliver work against tight deadlines
- Developed communication skills, specifically in negotiating with and influencing others
Desirable skills
- Working knowledge of TAX M&A processes
- Ability to work well in a team
- Experience of handling multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously