Tax Manager, Indirect Tax & VAT, PwC London

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 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 Senior Managers and above
Be involved in the financial management of clients
Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
Assist in the management and delivering of large projects
Train, coach, and supervise staff
Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

We are looking for a Manager to join our Indirect Tax Services group. You will be working in our middle market team that covers a broad sector of the market including the FTSE 101 to 350, other listed businesses, privately owned businesses, real estate, high net worth individuals and the not for profit sector. You would be joining a successful and growing team.

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, and the mid-tier in particular, 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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