Associate Corporate Tax Manager Director (Experienced)

Grant Thornton UK; California (MO); On-site; USD 93,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Income protection

Matched pension

Life cover

Private medical

Professional subscriptions

Job summary

Grant Thornton UK is recruiting an Associate Director or Experienced Manager for its Private Capital Corporate Tax team. You will advise owner-managed and private equity-backed clients on a broad range of tax issues and lead high-quality advisory work, strengthening relationships.

You will manage a diverse client portfolio, supervise juniors, and help grow the business through proactive cross-selling across the GT network.

Qualifications

• CTA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent with post-qualification experience.
• Strong knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation and international concepts.
• Experience managing a portfolio of entrepreneurial clients.
• Demonstrated business development experience.
• Experience supervising and developing junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Advise a broad range of clients on tax issues across compliance and advisory projects.
• Lead client meetings and provide high-quality tax advice on complex matters.
• Collaborate with GT network to cross-sell services and develop the client base.

Skills

Client advisory

Tax compliance

Business development

Mentoring

Education

CTA/ACA/ACCA

Job description

• 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
• As a member of our Private Capital Corporate Tax team you will have the opportunity to work with a varied client base, from owner-managed business to private equity backed businesses
• As an Associate Director or Experienced Manager within our Private Capital Corporate Tax team, you will have the opportunity to work with a varied client base, from owner-managed business to private equity backed businesses
• As an Associate Director or Experienced Manager within our Private Capital Corporate Tax team, you will:
• Advise 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

Benefits

• Income protection
• Matched pension
• Life cover
• Private medical, including anytime access to Doctor@Hand and Stronger Minds
• Professional subscriptions

Joining us as an Associate Director, or Experienced Manager 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 clientsYou’ll possess strong knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation and a working knowledge of international conceptsYou’ll have demonstrable Business Development experienceYou’ll have gained experience working within a professional services environmentYou’ll have reviewed work and supervised people in a tax environmentYou’ll have experience of managing a large portfolio of tax clientsAn eagerness to develop deep knowledge of the firm’s services and capabilities