Job Description

Working hard and working together, our Tax team thrives on keeping busy. Friendly, driven and diverse, they service our clients across the country and around the world. By providing expertise in many different specialist areas of tax, they collaborate to deliver wider business solutions. From meeting clients’ evolving business needs to managing changes to legislation, there are always fresh challenges to face in the Tax team.

This role requires an experienced transaction tax operative who is comfortable leading a range of tax due diligence, both buy side and sell side, and tax structuring assignments. The role will require working closely with other members of the team including tax specialist colleagues in VAT, Employment Taxes etc and with colleagues in Transaction Services. The role requires technical excellence as well as the ability to think commercially and to communicate tax technical issues to various stakeholders.

Benefits

• 28 days’ holiday;
• Access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;
• Life assurance cover and income protection insurance.
• Buy up to ten days’ extra holiday;
• Add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance;
• Receive an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan;
• Access childcare vouchers;
• Take an online health assessment and utilise our employee assistance programme.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to work on a variety of tax due diligence and tax structuring projects, working closely with other specialists within the firm and the transaction support team.
• Develop your own network of contacts internally and externally and start winning own work and cross selling.
• Ability to contribute to the development of certain key transaction relationships, e.g. Key private equity accounts.
• An in depth, up to date, knowledge of taxation with specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex tax issues arising on transactions
• Demonstrable relevant transactions experience
• Project and staff management experience
• Experience of dealing with client senior management and other stakeholders such as legal advisers
• Educated to degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent