Transfer Pricing Senior Manager

Our client’s transfer pricing practice is a highly dynamic and successful area within their tax business. A constantly changing and increasingly significant field, the transfer pricing team helps clients establish, document and defend market based pricing terms in relation to transactions between parts of multinational businesses.

They are a national team mostly based in London and key UK cities. There is a good mix of tax professionals, accountants and economists with backgrounds from industry, practice and HMRC.  This variety of backgrounds will give you the opportunity to work with people who are experts in their field, and help you to build a diverse skillset.

Key responsibilities        

This role involves working on a range of projects for large corporate clients.
The work involves:

• Developing and maintaining client relationships
• Developing detailed technical transfer pricing analyses
• Project managing large projects across multiple jurisdictions
• Driving financial management, including developing and managing project budgets and billing to ensure profitable delivery of client engagements
• Coaching and developing junior team members
• Driving the team’s business development and taking a lead on marketing initiatives
• Coordinating with the firm’s transfer pricing, international tax, indirect tax and advisory teams on a range of topics.

Skills and attributes       

Our client is looking for candidates with the following skills/experience:

• Very strong people skills for engaging with clients and team members
• Excellent communication and project management skills
• Extensive experience in a transfer pricing or tax value chain environment – preferably including experience of preparing transfer pricing documentation, tax value chain analyses, benchmarking, supporting with tax authority enquiries/Advance Pricing Agreements, project management and managing junior team members
• Very strong technical skills, ability to lead technical discussions with client
• Sound judgement, including the ability to identify and evaluate risk issues and know when to involve others.
• Very strong analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice
• High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude
• Very strong commercial awareness
• Keen ability and willingness to keep up to date technically
• An appreciation of and/or understanding of ethical/risk issues within a client service environment
• Efficient management of project P&Ls
• CTA, CA, ACA, ACCA, Masters in Economics or equivalently qualified