Corporate Tax Senior Associate

Job Description

A career within Corporate Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. Youll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while actingas a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. Youll also help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as providing adviceon tax implications of deals. Our team helps our clients improve their tax function to control risk and facilitate better decision making. Youll focus on helping businesses with tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, increasing post tax profits, and providingapplication support to achieve the best corporate tax practices. Our Central large corporate tax team comprises our offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, the East Midlands and Milton Keynes.We advise a range of large and complex UK and multinational publicly traded groups, private equity backed businesses, and utilitiesgroups across the spectrum of tax issues that impact their business, including advising on strategic business expansion, deal activity, financing, profit repatriation, navigating the evolving UK and international tax landscape, and managing domestic compliance. As part of the team youll be actively encouraged to develop your skills, consult, share specialist knowledge and new ideas, and engage with our market leading team of tax professionals as we continue to innovate to deliver best in class service. Responsibilities As a Senior Associate, youll work as part of a team, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Managing a portfolio of clients and being the main client contact for day to day queries and tax technical matters.
• Keeping up to date with local and national business and economic issues and discussing the impacts with your portfolio of clients.
• Supporting Managers and Senior Managers with business development activities to identify opportunities on existing clients and target opportunities on new clients
• Developing a broad range of internal relationships domestically and internationally and working with them to deliver value to our clients
• To the extent preferred by you, developing a deeper specialism in international and/or treasury tax matters.

Essential skills and experience

• Practice-trained finance professional, with relevant qualification (e.g. ACA/ACCA/CTA).
• Experience of advising multinational groups on a variety of UK tax matters.
• Excellent written communication including providing concise advice for clients, report writing and drafting technical memoranda.
• Strong interpersonal skills including experience in client handling, managing internal teams and multiple stakeholders.
• Strong project management skills - able to manage several complex client projects and plan their own workload.
• Experience of and/or a desire to coach and delegate a team of associates and senior associates, helping them grow their tax technical expertise alongside their client management skills.
• An interest in understanding broader UK and global business issues and being confident discussing these issues with a diverse client base