Associate Director, Tax Audit, Business Tax, Compliance and Reporting

Deloitte LLP; Newcastle upon Tyne, Manchester, Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Associate Director to join their dynamic tax team. This role offers the chance to work with prestigious clients and tackle complex tax audits, providing a unique opportunity to enhance your skills in a collaborative environment. You will lead a team of specialists, ensuring high-quality service delivery while managing key client relationships. With a focus on innovation and excellence, this position promises to challenge and inspire you as you contribute to impactful tax solutions. Embrace the chance to grow your career in a supportive and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience in tax audit work in a big 4 environment or similar.
• Ability to prepare and review tax accounting disclosures.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex tax audits and manage client relationships.
• Provide deep tax accounting expertise across various sectors.

Skills

Tax Audit Experience

IFRS Knowledge

US GAAP Understanding

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Client Management

Education

Degree in Accounting or Finance

Professional Tax Qualification

Job description

Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Reading

Business Line

Date published

07-May-2025

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Connect to your Industry

The Business Tax practice at Deloitte is offering an exciting opportunity to join our national tax reporting and audit of tax team, based throughout the UK.

The team consists of a group of tax reporting specialists who work with wide range of businesses including UK and foreign listed, private equity backed and family owed companies. You can expect to work across a variety of industry sectors, including nationally and internationally known businesses across all key sectors of the economy.

As the tax landscape is undergoing significant change; with changes to tax legislation, increased media focus and scrutiny, technology advancements, and the increasingly global reach of clients, the challenges faced by companies in the reporting and communication of tax risks and outcomes is becoming ever more complex.

We work closely with colleagues across core audit, accounting advisory and valuations, and alongside tax subject matter experts such as transfer pricing, treasury and innovation incentives. This enables us to provide a comprehensive audit of tax and end-to-end tax reporting service. We support our clients with the reporting of tax across all aspects of their business life cycle, including close involvement with corporate transactions, outsourcing of tax reporting, process improvement and delivery of assurance through high quality tax audits tailored to our clients’ particular tax risks.

This scope and range of businesses, and the intersection between tax, accounting and advisory services provides an exciting opportunity. The role will be varied and will range from complex tax audits of listed and private businesses, to multinational group reporting work, to supporting private equity backed businesses to account for tax on transactions. The different projects that you will be managing will ensure that you are challenged on a daily basis. You will also get to work with a great national team who are driven and ambitious, and meet and interact with prestigious client organisations.

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’show 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, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity

Our Associate Directors take the lead on delivering key parts of our client services.

You will use your commercial awareness and professional expertise, along with leveraging the skills and expertise of others, to deliver the best possible experience and outcomes for our clients.

You will manage key elements of a client relationship and will be expected to support Partners and Directors in developing existing relationships together with assisting with proposals for new clients.

You will be a confident team player and enjoy sharing your knowledge and expertise with others, as well as continuing to build your own technical expertise or specialism.

Responsibilities:

• Provide deep tax accounting and tax technical expertise on a wide variety of issues across a range of sectors;
• Lead the relationship with main Deloitte audit team, and deal with the most complex tax and tax accounting technical matters on audit engagements;
• Working with colleagues across service lines to plan and manage delivery of tax reporting advisory and outsource work to a broad range of clients, complementing your tax audit work;
• Be the main point of contact for the client’s tax and finance team on tax reporting matters;
• Manage a team of tax and tax reporting specialists, including overseas teams, to deliver complex audit of tax and tax reporting engagements.

National role

• Input into the wider Deloitte agenda on excellence in tax audit and tax accounting;
• Contribute to the leadership and development of the national tax reporting and audit of tax team.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Experience of tax audit work in a big 4 environment or similar (people from reporting roles in industry will be considered);
• Experience in preparing or reviewing reporting schedules and tax accounting disclosures under IFRS, FRS102 and US GAAP;
• Ability to integrate and work effectively within high performing teams;
• Delegation and leadership skills, and an ability to be clear and concise with regards to instructing more junior teams around them;
• High quality business writing and effective communication skills;
• The ability to work closely with audit teams and clients, applying practical and commercial concepts to technical work;
• Ability to effectively present to clients and internal teams;
• Individual needs to be organised and self-motivated.

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 locations 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