Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Tax

Market Leading Organisation Top Financial Services Tax Practice Department Hybrid Working Central London


If you have an interest in Banking, Insurance and/or Wealth & Asset Management and want to further build on your industry knowledge and expertise, you can be certain that as a Corporate Tax Mergers and Acquisitions Specialist you'll be joining a group which offers you unrivalled opportunities to work on a broad range of advisory opportunities from smaller inbound clients to huge multinationals.


Your key responsibilities


Building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service

Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken

Identifying and driving opportunities -use your knowledge gained from other projects and from our knowledge sharing sessions and technical training to add input to projects and proposals

Building your own strong client and internal relationships - develop and use your relationship skills to create your own external and internal networks

Counsel and develop junior staff through delegation and on the job training


Skills and attributes for success

Client driven and strategically and commercially aware

Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.

Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work

Strong and motivated team player

Coaching and developing more junior staff


To qualify for the role, you must have

Experienced tax practitioner with reviewing skills and expertise in international tax

Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)

Experience of working with financial services clients

Graduate/graduate calibre or equivalent work experience

Previous people management experience


Ideally, you will also have


Experience of coaching and developing more junior team members


What we look for

You'll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues so that you can better advise our clients.

The types of project you'll contribute towards may include


Expansion into new markets

Pre-transaction reorganisations and post-transaction integration

Organisational structure rationalisation

Business model redesign

Managing the risk arising from international developments (e.g. BEPS, ATAD)

Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in the UK and globally

Buy-side and sell-side tax diligence and structuring services

Optimisation of capital structure and financing


Tax modelling


In return we'll provide investment in the right sort of training and offer you the opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop and challenge you so that you're in the best place to further develop as tax professional.

Whatever the projects and assignments you work on you can be confident that you're contributing towards helping our clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service. As a tax professional and you'll be helping international and multinational companies align their global tax position with their business strategy, in order to maintain competitive advantage and provide shareholder value.

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