Corporate Tax Associate Director

Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. Our Private Capital corporate tax team specialises in looking after exciting entrepreneurial businesses – we focus on the tax affairs of privately owned and private equity backed companies. These are exciting businesses to work with, they are dynamic, entrepreneurial and often fast growing and they need us to help them navigate their increasingly complex tax compliance obligations and support with a range of tax advisory projects as they grow, restructure and consider succession planning. Our approach is to work hard to build a strong trusted adviser relationship – we listen to what they want to achieve from a business and a personal perspective and help them do so in the most tax efficient way. We are part of a much wider national tax practice that also consists of corporate and multinational (who deal with groups with significant multi-national footprint and in-house tax functions) and our specialist services (innovation tax, employment taxes, VAT and real estate). We are able to draw on this specialist expertise to support our Private Capital clients as they grow.

At Grant Thornton we do things differently – looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance. A true alternative.

With over 5,000 people in the UK, and a presence in 150 global markets, we\’re on an ambitious journey, from great to exceptional, and we need the best people to help us achieve our potential. And with that comes the opportunity to help redefine what our industry looks like, and what you want from your career.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise a broad range of clients on a range of tax issues, covering a broad range of compliance and advisory projects
• Be actively involved in client meetings, concisely and confidently answering client queries
• Engender trust and respect from clients by producing high quality tax advice accurately, delivering on expectations and deadlines
• Lead from the front in regards to delivering client work, engaging with the wider Tax teams to ensure correct skill utilisation on all projects
• Take responsibility for developing more junior team members, understanding their career aspiration and support in this delivery
• Provide intelligent and creative solutions to client tax issues both reactively and proactively, taking an active approach to cross‑selling wider solutions for other teams around the GT network
• Lead on pitch/proposals. You\’ll actively grow the business by being present in the market and demonstrating our capabilities to clients and targets

Minimum Qualifications

• A professional qualification (CTA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent) with post qualification experience
• Confidence managing a portfolio of entrepreneurial business clients

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation and a working knowledge of international concepts
• Reviewed work and supervised people in a tax environment
• Experience working within a professional services environment
• Experience of managing a large portfolio of tax clients
• Demonstrable Business Development experience
• An eagerness to develop deep knowledge of the firm\’s services and capabilities

Benefits

• Tailored development programmes and access to coaching
• Flexible bank holidays – allowing you to celebrate the days that are important to you
• Benefits including pension, life assurance and private medical, additional holiday purchasing and health benefits
• Access to shopping discounts, gym memberships and financial advice

We offer a competitive salary and reward package, and you will also benefit from flexible bank holidays, pension, life assurance, private medical, additional holiday purchasing, health benefits and access to shopping discounts, gym memberships and financial advice. Visit our benefits section to read more.