Location – London, Edinburgh, Leeds
Join our client as a tax professional and you’ll be helping 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 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 UK FS International and Transaction Tax Services (ITTS) team comprises 75 professionals, mainly in London but also in Edinburgh and Leeds and combines international tax services (encompassing all technical corporate tax advisory services) with transaction tax services (M&A / deals tax). This team structure provides a cross-fertilisation of tax advisory services and provides rich career prospects for those with an aptitude for providing tax advice to the FS market.
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 firm’s 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 role
This is a period of unprecedented change in the global international tax arena, which is resulting in huge demand in the market for specialised tax advisory services.
Our client has ambitious growth plans in their FS ITTS team. If you’re a senior advisor with an interest in Banking, Insurance and/or Wealth & Asset Management and want to further develop or build on your industry knowledge, you can be certain that as a Tax Senior within their team you’ll be joining a group which offers you unrivalled opportunities to work on a broad range of advisory opportunities from smaller inbound clients to huge multinationals.
ITTS professionals can also advise on the structuring aspects of some of the largest corporate M&A deals and due to this unique structure, our client can offer variety and/or specialism. Professionals in the team may work across sub-sectors; Banking, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management; or may specialise in any one of these.
Key responsibilities
- Contributing to building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service
- Help managing the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
- Identifying opportunities – use your knowledge gained from other projects and from the team’s knowledge sharing sessions and technical training 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
Skills and attributes
- 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
Essential
- Experience as a tax practitioner with reviewing skills
- Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)
- Experience of working with financial services clients (desirable)
- An undergraduate/postgraduate degree or with equivalent work experience
Desired
- Previous people management experience
What our client looks for
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 our client will provide investment in the right sort of training and offer you 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.
Whatever the projects and assignments you work on you can be confident that you’re contributing towards helping our clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service.
Benefits to you
Our client offers a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Their comprehensive package includes support for flexible working and career development, and 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. Plus, they offer:
- Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
Our client is committed to being an inclusive employer and they are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. They strive to achieve the right balance for their people, enabling them to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.
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