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Senior Manager, International Tax and Transaction Services

Employer
AVTR
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
£73,000 - £100,000
Closing date
8 Jul 2022

Job Details

 


Join our client as a tax professional and you’ll be helping international and multinational companies align their global tax position with their business strategy, in order to maintain competitive advantage and provide shareholder value.

 

Our client's Financial Services (FS) Tax practice has a fine reputation for sector expertise and close, trusted adviser relationships across a broad range of FS clients including globally systemic financial institutions and niche new market entrants and disruptors.  The firm's FS practice is run on an EMEIA basis providing market differentiated capability for seamless client service on the Europe-wide tax advisory projects which the market is demanding.

 

The UK FS International and Transaction Tax Services (ITTS) team comprises 75 professionals, mainly in London but also in Edinburgh and Leeds and combines international tax services (encompassing all technical corporate tax advisory services) with transaction tax services (M&A / deals tax). This team structure, introduced on a global basis in 2019, provides a cross-fertilisation of tax advisory services and provides rich career prospects for those with an aptitude for providing tax advice to the FS market. 

 

The ITTS team advises a wide range of clients across the Banking, Insurance and Wealth & Asset Management sectors, including having advised on many high-profile transactions and deals reported in the press over the past few years with top FS multinationals. Our client's partners are well known and respected in the market and the work is technically challenging, creative and requires you to work closely with clients’ businesses. 

 


The role                          

 

This is a period of unprecedented change in the global international tax arena, which is resulting in huge demand in the market for specialised tax advisory services.

 

Our client has ambitious growth plans in their FS ITTS team. If you’re an experienced senior manager or director with an interest in Banking, Insurance and/or Wealth & Asset Management and want to further build on your industry knowledge and expertise, you can be certain that as a Tax Director within our client's team you’ll be joining a group which offers you unrivalled opportunities to work on a broad range of advisory opportunities from smaller inbound clients to huge multinationals.

 

Our client’s global merger of its International Tax and Transaction Tax teams means that ITTS professionals can also advise on the structuring aspects of some of the largest corporate M&A deals and due to this unique structure, they can offer variety and/or specialism. Professionals in our client's team may work across their sub-sectors; Banking, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management; or may specialise in any one of these.  

 


Key responsibilities 

 

  • Building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service
  • Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
  • Identifying and driving opportunities –use your knowledge gained from other projects and from the firm's knowledge sharing sessions and technical training to add input to projects and proposals
  • Building your own strong client and internal relationships - develop and use your relationship skills to create your own external and internal networks
  • Counsel and develop junior staff through delegation and on the job training

 


Skills and attributes

 

  • Client driven and strategically and commercially aware
  • Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.
  • Enthusiastic and flexible attitude to work
  • Strong and motivated team player
  • Coaching and developing more junior staff

 


To qualify for the role, you must have 

 

  • Experienced tax practitioner with reviewing skills and expertise in international tax
  • Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)
  • Experience of working with financial services clients
  • Graduate/graduate calibre or equivalent work experience
  • Previous people management experience

 


Ideally, you will also have

 

  • Experience of coaching and developing more junior team members

 


What our client looks for            

 

You’ll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues so that you can better advise clients.

 

The types of project you’ll contribute towards may include:

 

  • Expansion into new markets
  • Pre-transaction reorganisations and post-transaction integration
  • Organisational structure rationalisation
  • Business model redesign
  • Managing the risk arising from international developments (e.g. BEPS, ATAD)
  • Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in the UK and globally
  • Buy-side and sell-side tax diligence and structuring services
  • Optimisation of capital structure and financing 
  • Tax modelling

 

                                       
In return our client will provide investment in the right sort of training and offer you the opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop and challenge you so that you’re in the best place to further develop asa tax professional.

 

Whatever the projects and assignments you work on you can be confident that you’re contributing towards helping clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service.

 

Company

 

 

Andrew Vinell Tax Recruitment Ltd is a boutique tax recruitment consultancy servicing all areas of tax. With over twenty years of experience in the tax world, we are well placed to service all your recruitment needs. 

 

Andrew’s knowledge of the tax industry, having worked in practice at KPMG and EY and in-house at Saathi & Saatchi, gives him the cutting edge when it comes to identifying top talent and servicing client needs. Andrew is tenacious and driven when it comes to making connections which has led to him placing numerous tax professionals at all levels not only across the UK but in Europe and The Middle East. 

 

Andrew continues to grow his company on the vision of providing the highest quality service possible, tailoring to, and delivering exactly what clients need, as well as finding and securing fantastic roles for our truly exceptional candidates.

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