Deals - Tax | Infrastructure | Senior Associate

Pwc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in the UK is seeking motivated individuals for the Energy & Infrastructure sub-team within Deals Tax. This role involves providing tax structuring advice, performing due diligence, and supporting business development initiatives. Candidates will work on high-profile transactions across diverse sectors, gaining valuable hands-on experience in a collaborative environment. Successful applicants should possess strong communication and project management skills, and a commitment to ensuring compliance with tax obligations.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in handling multiple complex projects.
• Ability to negotiate and influence others.
• Experience with transaction tax advice on deals.

Responsibilities

• Perform Tax Due Diligence reviews for clients.
• Provide Tax Structuring advice for efficient operations.
• Review key tax assumptions within financial models.
• Assist clients with pre-acquisition restructuring.
• Support business development initiatives.

Skills

Tax Due Diligence Reviews

Tax Structuring Advice

Tax Modelling

Communication skills

Project management

Job description

Our Deals Tax team works closely with our Deals practice to advise on the tax implications of a variety of deals projects including Business Recovery Services, Real Assets & Credit and Mergers and Acquisitions. Part of the wider Corporate Tax network, we're committed to driving collaboration and cross‑working across specialities to drive innovation and success as we service clients all over the world. The Infrastructure sub‑team, positioned within the Deals Tax practice, provides transaction services to clients including some of the largest infrastructure funds / fund managers, institutional investors as well as corporate and private clients as they look to invest across the infrastructure and new energy markets. We're committed to driving collaboration and cross‑working across specialities to drive innovation and success as we service clients. Our team is supported by a wide variety of specialists including stamp, VAT, capital allowances, construction industry scheme, tax compliance and finance and treasury specialists. We also collaborate across different lines of service and with our overseas firms.

About the role

We are seeking motivated individuals to join our specialist Energy & Infrastructure sub‑team within Deals Tax. You will be part of a hardworking, supportive, and growing group that values collaboration and professional development. From day one, you'll gain hands‑on experience and be sponsored as you progress your career in this dynamic field. This role offers exposure to high‑profile domestic and international transactions across diverse sectors, including regulated utilities, transport, renewable and alternative energy (such as wind, solar, electric vehicle infrastructure, and energy from waste), and technology infrastructure (data centres, fibre networks, and more). As a member of our dedicated tax team, you will help clients understand the impact of tax as a key value driver in transactions. Acting as a strategic consultant, you'll advise on structuring deals to meet commercial objectives while ensuring compliance with tax obligations.

What your days will look like

• Perform Tax Due Diligence reviews which involve looking at existing and potential tax issues, tax compliance and tax risks for clients wishing to sell/acquire businesses; articulating the impact and advising clients on how to approach any risks as part of the deal process.
• Provide Tax Structuring advice to help clients operate their business in the most tax efficient manner e.g. devising tax efficient acquisition and disposal steps for clients buying/selling businesses and implications of withholding tax, corporation tax and payroll taxes.
• Tax Modelling: review the key tax assumptions within financial models to help our clients make informed economic decisions and shape their business strategy.
• Pre and post‑deal services, including assisting clients with pre‑acquisition re‑structuring and implementing new tax planning ideas.
• Support the team with business development initiatives including preparation of client proposals, market updates and technical workshops and training.
• Demonstrated experience in:
  • Tax Due Diligence Reviews
  • Vendor Assistance
  • Tax Structuring Advice
  • Tax Modelling + Funds flow
  • Management tax planning
  • Sale & Purchase review service
  • Post deal implementation services
  • PFI deal structuring and modelling advice
• Transaction tax advice on deals.
• Experience of building internal and external relationships and networks.
• Ability to plan and deliver work to deadlines.
• Developed communication skills, specifically in negotiating with and influencing others.
• Experience in handling multiple complex projects and deadlines simultaneously.

Our values

In order to be the leading professional services firm it's important we have the right values, culture and behaviours embedded throughout our organisation, so our work reflects our purpose and we can successfully deliver our strategy. Our values set the expectations for the way we interact with each other, our clients, and in the communities in which we operate. These values, and the behaviours that they require from us, are relevant to all our people regardless of grade. They support a culture that empowers our people to be the best they can be, through challenging experiences and encouraging our people to speak up to make the firm a better place. We want all our people to understand and embrace the culture and personally feel part of the legacy this will create for our future employees. We're a hugely diverse business, bound together by our purpose - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and the communities in which we operate. We believe we can make the biggest impact when our purpose is embedded within everything we do.