Indirect Tax Senior Manager, PwC Edinburgh (flexible working)

A career in our Indirect Tax practice, within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their tax obligations across unique but ever changing tax specialties. You'll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing indirect taxes, dispute resolution, and global enterprise tax solutions.

Our team helps our clients optimise cash flow and reduce risk by managing challenges related to indirect taxes. You'll support our clients with all aspects of indirect taxation related to global, regional and domestic projects as well as comprehensive restructuring and reporting value added tax projects.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to

Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Directors and aboveBe involved in the financial management of clients
Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
Develop project strategies to solve complex technical challenges for our clients
Manage and deliver large projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team
Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria
Train, coach, and supervise team membersContinue to develop internal relationships and developing your PwC brand

About the role

We are essentially a consulting business and little of our work is routine. Projects range from one-off initiatives providing bespoke solutions to specific problems, working collaboratively with other specialisms within PwC to deliver a joined up solution to the client, through to advising UK clients on their international VAT obligations. One thing is guaranteed, the indirect tax practice offers a wide variety of opportunities.

Requirements

A proven track record in advising clients from a range of sectors and industries on complex Valued Added Tax (VAT) issues.
A motivated, proactive individual that has the ability to build and maintain their own client relationships and to win new business with minimal oversight from Partners and Directors.
To be able to assist in the development of VAT technical offerings and to easily disseminate complex messages in a manner that is easy to understand.
The ability to manage a client team and to support the development of junior staff.Someone who will respond well to being encouraged to shape and actively manage their career development through involvement in a broad variety of work.
Strong interpersonal and team working skills.
Excellent project management skills.
A commercial, client service driven approach to your work

Tax

We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.

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Diversity

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