Corporate Tax Associate Director

Grant Thornton UK LLP; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading audit and tax advisory firm in Cardiff is seeking an experienced Associate Director to join their Private Capital corporate tax team. In this role, you will advise a diverse range of entrepreneurial clients on complex tax compliance and advisory projects. The ideal candidate will possess strong knowledge of UK tax legislation and significant experience managing a portfolio of tax clients. Competitive benefits and the potential for flexible working arrangements are offered.

Benefits

Tailored development programmes

Flexible bank holidays

Pension and life assurance

Shopping discounts and gym memberships

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation with a working knowledge of international concepts.
• Experience managing a large portfolio of tax clients.
• Ability to supervise team members in a tax environment.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on a range of tax issues, covering compliance and advisory projects.
• Engage in client meetings, effectively addressing queries.
• Lead client work and ensure skill utilization on projects.

Skills

Knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation

Business Development

Advisory skills

Education

Professional qualification (CTA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent)

Job description

Overview

Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. Our Private Capital corporate tax team specialises in looking after exciting entrepreneurial businesses - we focus on the tax affairs of privately owned and private equity backed companies. These are exciting businesses to work with, they are dynamic, entrepreneurial and often fast growing and they need us to help them navigate their increasingly complex tax compliance obligations and support with a range of tax advisory projects as they grow, restructure and consider succession planning. Our approach is to work hard to build a strong trusted adviser relationship - we listen to what they want to achieve from a business and a personal perspective and help them do so in the most tax efficient way. We are part of a much wider national tax practice that also consists of corporate and multinational (who deal with groups with significant multi-national footprint and in-house tax functions) and our specialist services (innovation tax, employment taxes, VAT and real estate). We are able to draw on this specialist expertise to support our Private Capital clients as they grow.

Grant Thornton; we do things differently — looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. We empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance.

Responsibilities

• Be advising a broad range of clients on a range of tax issues, covering a broad range of compliance and advisory projects
• Be actively involved in client meetings, concisely and confidently answering client queries
• Engender trust and respect from clients by producing high quality tax advice accurately, delivering on expectations and deadlines
• Lead from the front in regards to delivering client work, engaging with the wider Tax teams to ensure correct skill utilisation on all projects
• Take responsibility for developing more junior team members, understanding their career aspiration and support in this delivery
• Provide intelligent and creative solutions to client tax issues both reactively and proactively, taking an active approach to cross-selling wider solutions for other teams around the GT network.
• Lead on pitch/proposals. You\'ll actively grow the business by being present in the market and demonstrating our capabilities to clients and targets.
• Joining us as an Associate Director, the minimum criteria you\'ll need is a professional qualification (CTA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent) with post qualification experience, and to be confident managing a portfolio of entrepreneurial business clients.

Qualifications

• You\'ll possess strong knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation and a working knowledge of international concepts
• You\'ll have reviewed work and supervised people in a tax environment
• You\'ll have gained experience working within a professional services environment
• You\'ll have experience of managing a large portfolio of tax clients
• You\'ll have demonstrable Business Development experience
• An eagerness to develop deep knowledge of the firm\'s services and capabilities

Benefits

• Tailored development programmes and access to coaching
• Flexible bank holidays - allowing you to celebrate the days that are important to you
• Benefits including pension, life assurance and private medical, additional holiday purchasing and health benefits
• Any benefits giving you access to shopping discounts, gym memberships, financial advice

How we work

We have a trust-based way of working, driven by responsible people who have the best interests of our firm and our clients at heart. Our how we work framework gives flexibility in where, how, and when we work to deliver the best results for our clients, whilst helping you keep a balance between work and life. Life is more than work, the things you do, and the people you\'re with outside of work matter, that\'s why we\'re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles. We\'re looking for people who can help drive the business forward, who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to be able to proudly do what\'s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves. It\'s how it should be.