Associate Director, Indirect Tax, Financial Investors

Deloitte LLP; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking an Associate Director for its Financial Investors Indirect Tax team in the UK. This role involves leading high-value VAT advisory projects for prominent clients, with substantial opportunities for career growth and professional development. Ideal candidates will have strong business development experience and the ability to foster client relationships while working flexibly within the team.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience either in practice, industry or with HMRC.
• Excellent client-facing skills with a proven ability to build relationships.
• Proactive, able to identify opportunities and lead project teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead VAT input on Deloitte’s largest transaction engagements.
• Provide end-to-end VAT advice for clients and their portfolios.
• Advise private capital businesses on their VAT recovery positions.
• Lead teams on client engagements balancing projects and advisory work.
• Assist in developing Analysts and Consultants through advice and support.

Skills

Relationship building

Business development

Client facing

Commercial awareness

Job description

Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Guernsey, Ipswich, Isle of Man, Jersey, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Port Talbot, Reading, Southampton, St Albans

Connect to your Industry

Deloitte’s Financial Investors Indirect Tax team has grown rapidly and to continue that growth is looking to recruit high calibre individuals at Associate Director level.

The Indirect Tax Practice is regarded within the firm as one of the leading and most successful service lines, with a reputation for being proactive, entrepreneurial, successful and fun to work with. We reward our employees on merit and not time served.

Working for us will present you with the opportunity to get involved with high profile clients and expand your horizons.

Within the Indirect Tax practice, through the merging of our successful M&A and Real Estate indirect tax teams in 2019 we formed a Financial Investors team. It has seen consistent and significant growth since then (both in revenue and team size). The team has exciting plans for even further growth over the coming years, operating in an area considered a major priority.

The team sits within the Indirect Tax group and primarily works alongside Deloitte's Financial Investors Tax team - one of the most dynamic and fast‑growing areas of the business. The team advises across all aspects of VAT for our financial investor clients - working on many of the highest value private equity and real estate transactions in the UK and Europe, supporting high profile investment businesses on their VAT positions and advising private equity backed businesses in all sectors.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,foster inclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

Having formed a diverse and successful team of 30+ individuals, led by 4 Partners, we are now looking to bring in additional experienced individuals to join the leadership team, help us pursue new growth opportunities and bring a fresh perspective. We are looking for people with great experience in the financial investors sector (including those with experience working with real estate investors), and most importantly an interest/track record in winning new advisory relationships. They will have the full support of the team to leverage our internal and external relationships.

We also have a great track record of supporting individuals to shape their career as they like – whether that is career progression (we have had two partner and several director promotions in the team in recent years) or flexible working.

• Leading the VAT input on Deloitte’s largest transaction support engagements. This includes buy‑side support, sell‑side support, carve‑outs, and reorganisation/restructuring
• Providing end‑to‑end VAT advice for our clients, the transactions they are involved in, and their portfolios of investee businesses
• Advising private capital businesses on their VAT recovery position, new fund structure and day‑to‑day compliance issues
• Advising and supporting various holding structures in managing recovery of VAT on deal costs
• Reviewing various contracts/agreements and advising on the UK VAT issues that impact commercial decisions
• Leading teams day‑to‑day on client engagements (likely to be a balance of transaction projects and advisory work)
• Assisting with deepening relationships with clients and targets, contributing to winning new work
• Assisting with developing Analysts and Consultants with hands on advice and support
• Input into development of new market opportunities locally, nationally and internationally with an opportunity to lead the market development of the new ideas
• Working closely with colleagues in other parts of the firm
• Helping to shape the culture and goals of the team, ensuring it remains a great place to work
• Having a broader perspective of potential issues encountered when managing diverse teams and the strategies to overcome them; having a clear understanding of the firm's commitment to creating a more inclusive culture

Connect to your skills and professional experience

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Relevant experience either in practice, industry or with HMRC
• Excellent client facing, relationship building and business development skills, coupled with commercial awareness
• The ability to be proactive, identify opportunities, take early responsibility and lead project teams

Connect to your business – Tax

Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at Deloitte. We’re constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what’s possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.

Tax

Our comprehensive range of services encompasses everything from the completion of tax returns (corporation tax self‑assessment) to complex consultancy assignments and strategic tax planning. We advise on corporate and general tax, international M&A, stamp tax, cross‑border transfer pricing, reorganisations and reconstructions, and competent authority negotiations.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

“We advise some of the largest, most prestigious clients in the world, so the work is really challenging and exciting. We also have a fantastic team of smart, driven people, and a supportive, entrepreneurial culture where everyone’s encouraged to be bold, creative, and ambitious.” - Oliver, Tax

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in UK Wide with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world‑class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose‑driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers