Executive / Assistant Manager - Corporate Tax
Grant Thornton (NI) LLP
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Job summary
Grant Thornton Belfast is seeking a Corporate Tax Executive / Assistant Manager to join the NI Tax Team. You will manage a corporate tax compliance portfolio, supervise junior staff, and collaborate across a growing international platform to deliver high-quality tax services to owner-managed businesses, large groups and multinational clients.
The role blends technical tax advisory with delivery leadership, client liaison, and ongoing career development within a leading UK and international
Qualifications
- ACA (or CTA) qualified.
- Experience in a corporate tax department within a practice environment.
- Strong technical tax knowledge with ability to apply to compliance work.
- Good organisational and project management skills with ability to meet multiple deadlines.
- Ability to supervise and review junior team members and provide feedback.
- Ability to work on own initiative with escalation of complex matters.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with clients and colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day execution of a corporation tax compliance portfolio, ensuring deadlines and quality standards are met.
- Coordinate workflow across engagements and monitor progress against budgets.
- Review work prepared by junior team members prior to Manager review.
- Identify issues during delivery and escalate complex or higher-risk matters.
- Act as day-to-day client contact and build relationships with oversight from the Manager.
- Apply strong technical knowledge to deliver high-quality outputs and undertake research when needed.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of tax legislation and share it within the team.
- Ensure compliance with firm procedures and engagement requirements.
- Provide guidance and coaching to junior team members and review their work.
- Support delivery efficiency by managing time and contributing to utilisation targets.
Skills
Education
Job description
The Grant Thornton Advisors (NI) Tax Team is an ambitious and growing team of over 100 specialists, bringing together deep industry, sector and technical expertise. Our Corporation Tax Compliance client base continues to grow significantly, with increasing demand from owner-managed businesses, large groups and internationally active clients.
Grant Thornton is part of a fast-growing and rapidly evolving international platform, bringing together specialist teams across the UK, Ireland, the US and an expanding global network of member firms. This creates opportunities for our people to work on complex, cross-border assignments, collaborate with leading specialists across the network and build expertise across the full spectrum of UK and international tax services. From Belfast, our team supports a diverse client base that includes owner-managed businesses, large corporate and multinational groups, giving our people exposure to some of the most interesting and complex tax challenges in the market while benefiting from the scale, resources and opportunities of a growing international platform.
We are therefore seeking a Corporate Tax Executive / Assistant Manager to join our growing team. As an Executive / Assistant Manager, you will work closely with other members of our Compliance team to deliver high-quality services to our clients while developing your own skills and technical capability.
Excellent opportunities exist for ambitious and driven candidates to progress within the firm. The position attracts a competitive remuneration package and ongoing career development.
The Grant Thornton Advisors (NI) Tax Team is an ambitious and growing team of over 100 specialists, bringing together deep industry, sector and technical expertise. Our Corporation Tax Compliance client base continues to grow significantly, with increasing demand from owner-managed businesses, large groups and internationally active clients.
Grant Thornton is part of a fast-growing and rapidly evolving international platform, bringing together specialist teams across the UK, Ireland, the US and an expanding global network of member firms. This creates opportunities for our people to work on complex, cross-border assignments, collaborate with leading specialists across the network and build expertise across the full spectrum of UK and international tax services. From Belfast, our team supports a diverse client base that includes owner-managed businesses, large corporate and multinational groups, giving our people exposure to some of the most interesting and complex tax challenges in the market while benefiting from the scale, resources and opportunities of a growing international platform.
We are therefore seeking a Corporate Tax Executive / Assistant Manager to join our growing team. As an Executive / Assistant Manager, you will work closely with other members of our Compliance team to deliver high-quality services to our clients while developing your own skills and technical capability.
Excellent opportunities exist for ambitious and driven candidates to progress within the firm. The position attracts a competitive remuneration package and ongoing career development.
- Manage the day-to-day execution of a corporation tax compliance portfolio, ensuring deadlines and quality standards are met.
- Coordinate workflow across engagements and monitor progress against budgets and timelines.
- Review work prepared by junior team members for accuracy and completeness prior to Manager review.
- Identify issues arising during delivery and escalation complex or higher-risk matters.
- Act as a day-to-day contact for clients, responding to queries and providing updates.
- Build effective working relationships with client contacts, with oversight from the Manager.
- Ensure client expectations are understood and met in the delivery of work.
- Apply strong technical knowledge to deliver high-quality compliance outputs.
- Undertake technical research and propose solutions for review.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of tax legislation and share knowledge within the team.
- Ensure all work complies with firm procedures and engagement requirements.
- Identify potential risk issues and escalation appropriately.
- Support the accurate completion of engagement processes from initiation through to invoicing.
- Provide guidance and on-the-job coaching to junior team members.
- Perform initial reviews of work and support development through informal feedback.
- Support efficient delivery by managing time and working within agreed budgets.
- Contribute to achieving team utilisation and delivery targets.
- ACA (or equivalent) or CTA qualified.
- Relevant experience working in a corporate tax department within a practice environment.
- Strong technical tax knowledge with the ability to apply it effectively to compliance work.
- Good organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
- Ability to supervise and review the work of junior team members, providing clear and constructive feedback.
- Capable of working on own initiative, with appropriate escalation of complex or higher-risk matters.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues and clients.
Grant Thornton Ireland is rapidly approaching 3,000 people, in 9 offices across Ireland, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and Bermuda. With a presence in over 149 countries around the world and a global network of 73,000 people, we bring our clients the local knowledge, national expertise and global presence to help them succeed – wherever they’re located.
At GT, we work as trusted advisors, bringing local knowledge and national expertise, with a global presence, to help businesses succeed – wherever they are located. We make business more personal by investing in building relationships and empowering our clients to make the right decisions for their organisation now and for the future. Whether that is working with the public sector to build thriving communities, with regulators and financial institutions to build trust, or with a diverse range of businesses to help them achieve their goals, Grant Thornton Ireland work hard to support clients to act on the issues that matter.
Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently.
A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for your clients. We respect and value your experience. And we want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best. It is how it should be.
At Grant Thornton, we care about our people and work hard to make you feel valued. If you are looking to deepen and develop your skills, knowledge, and experience throughout your career, then that is what you will get, and more.
Please follow this link for information on our generous benefits package.
At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied individuals present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.
We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.
Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access …
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