Tax - Director - Private Capital Transactions Tax - London | London, UK

Tax works with clients of all sizes in all industries, working closely with the incredibly strong network of transaction tax teams around the world. In this dynamic and fast-moving environment, individuals apply their skills to a variety of transactions. With a truly entrepreneurial spirit, there is the flexibility to shape your career in particular sectors or areas of the M&A landscape or to get experience across the spectrum.

The Private Capital Transactions tax team works with the world's largest private equity clients as well as specifically focusing on the areas of the deals market that are developing the quickest. Our flexibility and speed to market means that we have grown each year throughout the downturn. In order to take advantage of the current opportunities in the market, we need to continue to recruit the best talent.

The opportunity

In this team, you will get wide-ranging experience in all the core areas of transactional work - including private equity, infrastructure and clean-tech, distressed debt and turnaround transactions, and restructuring. As deal advisers, Private Capital Transactions team members not only gain good UK tax technical experience but also develop a commercial understanding of what is important to our clients in a deal context. As a large part of transactions work is cross-border, you will also have an early introduction to international structuring techniques and overseas tax regimes.

We are currently looking to expand our Private Capital Transactions Tax team and are keen to speak with experienced Tax Advisors.

Your key responsibilities

• Contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of tax services to the client, building and maintaining tax relationships with clients to provide high levels of client service.
• Proactively manage existing clients and ensure technical excellence and a practical/business focus approach.
• Manage the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business focus approach taken.
• Overall responsibility for the quality of client service.
• Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice.
• Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from.
• Develop junior staff through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring.
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing staff development and assignments.

Skills and attributes for success

• Client focus and commercially aware.
• Strong international and UK tax technical skills and understanding.
• Commitment to building strong client relationship management with the ability to develop quality outputs to clients.
• Negotiation skills and ability to handle challenges.
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to manage engagement financial results.
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.
• Enthusiastic team player with the ability to create and sustain effective teams.
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day-to-day delivery.
• Change orientated and innovative with a flexible approach to ways of working and adoption of new technologies.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Experienced tax practitioner with deep experience of tax transactions.
• Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification).
• Graduate or equivalent work experience.
• Experience of managing a team and/or coaching and developing team members.
• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget.

What we look for

You will proactively maintain your technical understanding by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues so that you can better advise our clients. In return, we will provide investment in specialist training and offer you opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop you so that you are in the best place to build your tax career.

Whatever the projects and assignments you work on, you can be sure you are contributing towards helping our clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy, ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service.