M&A Tax, Private Equity Portfolio, Senior Manager

Big 4 M&A Tax, Private Equity Portfolio, Senior Manager

Your new company

A career in this firm's Merger and Acquisition Tax practice, within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help their 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.

The team helps their clients with various aspects of a merger and acquisition transactions such as restructuring, divestiture, partnerships and insolvency. You'll focus on helping clients establish treasury goals, analyse and quantify tax assets, assess tax risks, and model taxable income and cash flow impacts.

As part of the team you'll experience unparalleled opportunities to develop your career. You'll work on complex and challenging projects and gain experience working with prestigious and diverse clients - from high profile multinational organisations and private equity firms to start-ups and owner-managed businesses.


Your new role

The role sits within the leading, dedicated Private Equity Portfolio (PE Portfolio) Tax team, within the firm's Deals Tax network. They work in a dynamic sector, combining ongoing relationship management with transaction support. The team has ambitious growth plans, providing the opportunity to work on household names, in a friendly, progressive environment, as well as working providing technically stimulating advice.

Responsibilities:

* You will be responsible for managing members of a growing team and providing tax advisory services to a range of PE portfolio company clients.
* Manage and deliver bespoke tax advice in relation to the PE portfolio company and the transactions it is involved with. The work is wide-ranging including international tax and supporting their clients throughout the deal cycle.
* Build and maintain relationships with clients and junior members of the team. In particular, working closely with clients to provide them with proactive innovative and commercial tax services.
* Seek specialist input from other parts of tax and wider network - in particular transaction services and non-UK teams.
* Be proactive in seeking business development opportunities helping to identify and progress opportunities with new/existing clients.
* Use technical knowledge and experience to help develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges for our clients.
* Take responsibility for developing your own and the team's technical and business acumen; keeping up to date with business and economic issues, industry insights and sharing your experience and technical knowledge as part of a team to solve important problems.

What you'll need to succeed

Essential skills and experience:

* Chartered Accountant (ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS, CAI) or Chartered Tax Advisor (ATT, CTA) or equivalent international or legal professional qualification.
* You will have significant UK corporate tax knowledge including management tax issues and will have experience advising on transactions.
* You will need a flexible approach to allow you to work as part of a number of client/transaction teams simultaneously.
* You will have experience of developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients and internally.
* You will need strong analytical skills and a proven ability to solve complex problems in a collaborative and creative way.
* You will have experience of project managing and delegating work within a team context, with excellent communication skills.
* You will have a focus on self-development and in the development of others in your teams.

What you'll get in return

Flexible working options available.

What you need to do now

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