Senior Consultant, VAT/Indirect Tax | Corporate Finance & Restructuring

FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation. We work with many of the world’s top multinational corporations, law firms, banks and private equity firms on their most important issues to deliver impact that makes a difference. From resolving disputes, navigating crises, managing risk and optimizing performance, our teams respond rapidly to dynamic and complex situations. At FTI Consulting, you’ll work side-by-side with leaders who have shaped history, helping solve the biggest challenges making headlines today. From day one, you’ll be an integral part of a focused team where you can make a real impact. You’ll be surrounded by an open, collaborative culture that embraces diversity, recognition, professional development and, most importantly, you. Are you ready to make your impact?

About Tax Advisory at FTI: We provide corporate tax advisory services to FTSE 100 and major corporations across a broad suite of tax services and technical specialisms. We are an independent expert-led tax practice with definitive expertise across many areas of tax and a commercial approach to advising our clients. Our senior management team members are leaders in their field, qualified in accounting, tax, law and surveying and also includes valuations and technology experts and economists.

About the Role: The practice is seeking a proactive Indirect Tax Senior Consultant to help the growth of our Indirect Tax practice. The role will require the individual to help the Indirect Tax team deliver a wide range of indirect tax advisory projects for clients operating in the real estate, large and complex corporate, life science, and investor sectors. The role will also involve a limited amount of VAT compliance work, mostly arising from insolvency appointments led by our Restructuring group, but this is not our focus area and would be incidental to the higher value and more complex advisory portfolio. The Indirect Tax team itself has an exciting growth trajectory and works with a wide range of complex and interesting international and domestic businesses on all facets of UK VAT, including supply chain advisory, due diligence and structuring advice on M&A and real estate transactions, dispute resolution, and risk and governance. We are a member of the WTS International network which specialises in providing tax advice to clients with a global footprint. The role will involve taking a lead in responding to queries from the network and assisting their client base with UK VAT matters.

What You’ll Do:

• Providing a high standard of indirect tax technical and project management support to the growth of the Indirect Tax team.
• Assisting with due diligences, transaction advisory and restructuring advisory work.
• Fielding and addressing queries arising from the WTS International network.
• Managing part of the practices limited VAT compliance portfolio, acting as the lead with clients and dealing with HMRC queries.
• Delegating to and being actively involved in the development of the junior team.
• Keeping up to date on technical matters and taking an active role in educating the wider tax team on indirect tax matters.
• Helping to develop and execute business development initiatives.

How You’ll Grow: We are committed to investing and supporting you in your professional development and we have developed a range of programs focused on fostering leadership, growth and development opportunities. We aim to promote continuous learning and individual skills development through on-the-job learning, self-guided professional development courses and certifications. You’ll be assigned a dedicated coach to mentor, guide and support you through regular coaching sessions and serve as an advocate for your professional growth. As you progress through your career at FTI Consulting, we offer tailored programs for critical professional milestones to ensure you are prepared and empowered to take on your next role.

What You Will Need to Succeed:

• Solid experience working in Indirect Tax.
• ACA/CTA qualified or hold an equivalent qualification.
• An excellent understanding of UK VAT law is essential. Experience having advised on other Indirect Taxes (Customs, Excise, Environmental) is desirable but not essential.
• Highly organised, have a good attention to detail and being able to work to deadlines.
• Able to communicate complex technical issues in a straightforward and practical way to tax and non-tax specialists.
• Able to integrate with a team and interact with colleagues of all grades.
• Able to build and maintain client relationships.
• Able to prioritise and manage a varied workload under pressure.
• A desire to contribute to business development initiatives and to take some ownership of the growth of the Indirect Tax function with support from the senior tax team.
• Proven ability to take ownership of projects and come to decisions independently whilst being supported by the senior tax team.
• Be aware of and be able to manage engagement financials and risk.

Our goal is to support the wellbeing of you and your families—physically, emotionally, and financially. We offer market competitive benefits (including pension), supplemented by 15 flexible benefits, to meet your needs. These include health, lifestyle and family friendly options. We also offer professional development programme, wellness, recognition, community volunteering initiatives, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements.

About FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting, Inc. is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation, with more than 8,300 employees located in 34 countries and territories. Our broad and diverse bench of award–winning experts advise their clients when they are facing their most significant opportunities and challenges. The Company generated $3.49 billion in revenues during fiscal year 2023.