Deal Advisory Tax Senior Manager - Financial Services

Deal Advisory Tax Senior Manager job, Financial Services, Big 4, London, permanent, flexible working


Are you someone who is keen to work in an environment that offers plenty of opportunities for personal and professional development? Then this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Your new company

In this firm you'll get to work with fantastic high-profile clients across a full range of sectors. You'll work with exciting, pioneering businesses, some of which are household names. Not just that, countless opportunities will arise to try out new things and to shape your career in a way that suits your skills and interest. This firm has a collaborative and supportive environment, which promotes inclusion, diversity, and equality of opportunity. This includes a focus on fair work allocation, promoting flexible working, and sharing resource across the national network.

Their team of more than 100 commercially minded specialists work on all aspects of the deal cycle, providing innovative tax advice and navigating complex technical changes for clients. You'll have the opportunity to build your knowledge, work alongside specialists across different functions, within the UK and internationally. As part of their national team, and global network of member firms, you'll work on many different types and sizes of cross-boarder deals.

Your new role

Delivering Quality Service:

* Engage in developing and maintaining client relationships alongside other functions;
* Support business development and input on marketing initiatives;
* Draft/review detailed technical advice covering a range of UK and international tax issues;
* Perform/oversee detailed analysis of the tax numbers in the financial statements and other primary documents e.g. tax computations and returns;
* Collaborate with other UK and overseas tax teams to provide input into due diligence and structuring deliverables, critically analysing and challenging their input;
* Demonstrate up-to-date knowledge in respect of developments in the field of UK and international tax e.g BEPS, Corporate Interest Restriction, Anti-Hybrids, FX etc;
* Understand financial models and analyse underlying tax assumptions.
* Provide visualised output (e.g. tables, charts, graphs, timelines etc.).
* Read and analyse due diligence reports, highlighting key issues and articulating the commercial impact of these to the client/senior members of the team.

Teamwork, coaching and developing people:

* Coach and manage junior staff members, providing constructive feedback when requested and liaising junior staff with senior team members.
* Design and monitor the distribution and allocation of tasks for each project.
* Perform initial review of the tasks performed by junior team members and the Global Support function.
* Become a key point of contact for clients, legal advisers and other teams in order to facilitate effective delivery.

Interaction with counterparties to a transaction:

* Lead/participate in conference calls and face-to-face meetings with targets' management, clients and bidders.
* Critically review and analyse information from Sellers and input from overseas offices to assess historical/structural tax issues.
* Assist Partners and Directors in market research and winning new work.
* Attend networking and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing events to build and personal relationships.

What you'll need to succeed

* Qualified CTA or ACA/CA or equivalent
* Experience working with UK Tax is preferred. In the absence of UK Tax experience, a lot of experience in deals including leading multi jurisdiction transactions is essential
* Ambitious, driven and a keen interest in Financial Services, Infrastructure and / or Private Equity
* Strong interpersonal skills
* Strong oral and written communication skills
* Strong UK corporate tax knowledge and good awareness of other tax and accounting areas
* Strong analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice
* Excellent project management skills, including ability to work as part of a team and to show initiative to drive projects forward
* Ability to build and maintain client relationships
* Be proficient in the use of Excel and PowerPoint
* Ability to develop as a coach and lead staff

What you'll get in return

Flexible working options available. Many benefits including; car allowance, private medical insurance, remote GP service, health assessments, and the list goes on.

What you need to do now

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