Corporate Tax Associate Director in Birmingham

Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. The Corporate and Multinational tax team specialises in working with large complex businesses to navigate the ever‑changing corporate tax landscape, manage tax risk and ensure compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations. In everything we do our aim is to deliver tailored, proactive and value add service to our clients. We combine technical expertise with a commercial approach, to build a strong trusted adviser relationship with our clients. We work with sophisticated tax teams, which means that the work we do is technically challenging and international. We have ambitious growth plans and are looking for an experienced, self‑motivated and enthusiastic Associate Director with a strong UK corporation tax background to work within our team.

We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we’ll support you to balance your work and life.

A look into the role:

• Be advising a broad range of clients on a range of tax issues, covering compliance and advisory projects.
• Be leading client relationships and, together with the senior team, deliver solutions for client advisory projects.
• Managing the preparation of tax provisions and ensuring tax reporting obligations and compliance deadlines are met.
• Develop and lead own client portfolio, ensuring a high level of client service.
• Work closely with colleagues across the Grant Thornton tax practice to identify opportunities from both new and existing clients.
• Proactively train and develop more junior members of the team, including through the delivery of bespoke training sessions.
• Lead from the front in delivering client work, engaging with the wider tax teams to ensure correct skill utilisation on all projects.
• Actively contribute to business development activities by proactively managing existing relationships and pitching work to new clients; support partner and director teams on proposals and actively grow the business by being present in the market and demonstrating our capabilities to clients and targets.
• Have a thorough understanding of and adhere to the firm’s risk management and quality procedures.

Knowing you’re right for us:

• The minimum criteria you’ll need is a professional qualification (ATT, CTA, ACA, ICAS or ACA) with post‑qualification experience, and will be confident managing a portfolio of tax clients.
• Strong UK corporation tax technical skills, including leading domestic and international advisory projects, and experience with tax provisioning / interim and full year group reporting.
• Strong corporate tax compliance experience – advising and awareness of hybrid and other mismatch rules, interest deductibility, controlled foreign companies regime, Pillar 2, etc.
• A track record of leading projects, with a focus on accountability, high quality and timely delivery.
• Self‑motivated and strong team player.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience coaching and developing more junior team members.
• A desire to network and play an active part in the growth of the broader team.
• Apply critical reasoning to bring clarity and insight; ask great questions, listen and draw on collective knowledge and experience to help others grow.
• Familiarity with Alphatax, Power BI, Microsoft Office and other relevant software.

Knowing we’re right for you:

The culture at Grant Thornton is what sets us apart; we’re known for our inclusive culture and creating environments where all our people can flourish. The things that set you apart, we value them, and this helps us all to perform at our best. Our values are the unwavering principles that shape our daily behaviours and decisions, alongside our drive to do the right thing. We’re looking for people who align with our values and are purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind.

It’s not just about our culture and values, in addition to a competitive salary and reward package, you’ll also get:

• 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.
• Benefits giving you access to shopping discounts, gym memberships, financial advice.
• And more.

How we work:

We have a trust‑based way of working, driven by responsible people who have the best interests of our firm and our clients at heart. Our how we work framework gives flexibility in where, how, and when we work to deliver the best results for our clients, whilst helping you keep a balance between work and life. Life is more than work, the things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles. That is how it should be.

We’re looking for people who can help drive the business forward, who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to be able to proudly do what’s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves. It’s how it should be.