Location – London (Open to Flexible Working)
Our client is looking 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.
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.
As a Tax Senior within the 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.
The company’s global merger of its 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, offers variety and/or specialism. Professionals in this team may work across 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
- 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 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
To qualify for the role, you must have
- 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
Ideally, you will also have
- Previous people management experience
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