Tax - Director - Private Capital Transactions Tax - London
Tax - Director - Private Capital Transactions Tax - London
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Director Private Capital Transactions Tax (Open to flexible working)
Tax works with clients of all sizes in all industries working closely with the incredibly strong network of transaction tax teams around the world. In this dynamic and fast-moving environment individuals apply their skills to a variety of transactions. With a truly entrepreneurial spirit there is the flexibility to shape your career in particular sectors or areas of the M&A landscape or to get experience across the spectrum.
The Private Capital Transactions tax team work with the worlds largest private equity clients as well as specifically focussing on the areas of the deals market that are developing the quickest. Our flexibility and speed to market means that we have grown each year throughout the downturn in-order to take advantage of the current opportunities in the market we need to continue to recruit the best talent.
The opportunity
In this team you will get wide-ranging experience in all the core areas of transactional work including private equity infrastructure and clean-tech distressed debt and turnaround transactions and restructuring.
As deal advisers Private Capital Transactions team members not only get good UK tax technical experience but also get a commercial understanding of what is important to our clients in a deal context. As a large part of transactions work is cross-border you will also have an early introduction to international structuring techniques and overseas tax regimes.
We are currently looking to expand our Private Capital Transactions Tax team and are keen to speak with experienced Tax Advisors.
Your key responsibilities
You will contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of tax services to the client building and maintaining tax relationships with clients to provide high levels of client service. Youll contribute to winning new work by proactively managing existing clients and ensure technical excellence and a practical/business focus approach.
The opportunity
The combination of experience and innovation in our team makes it not only one of the most exciting places to work in tax but also a place where you can learn and develop into a skilled and renowned international tax adviser working withK / overseas MNCs lawyers and banks on complex projects.
Our tax professionals will work on a variety of projects which are focused on helping clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy including:
- Expansion into new markets
- Pre-transaction reorganisations and post-transaction integration
- Legal structure rationalisation
- Operating model redesign
- Optimisation of capital structure and financing
- Optimisation of intellectual property ownership and reliefs
- Managing the risk arising from global law change such as BEPS and
- Lobbying and negotiation with tax authorities in UK and globally
Your key responsibilities
- Build and maintain relationships with clients winning work proactively and contributing to winning new clients
- Management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects ensuring technical excellence and practical / business focus approach taken
- Overall responsibility of quality of client service
- Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
- Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
- Develop junior staff through effectively supervising coaching and mentoring
- Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing staff development and assignments
Skills and attributes for success
- Client focus and commercially aware
- Strong international and UK tax technical skills and understanding
- Commitment to building strong client relationship management with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
- Negotiation skills and handle challenges
- Business development skills able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
- Strong business acumen with ability to manage engagement financial results
- Effective time management ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
- Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
- Enthusiastic team player with ability to create sustain effective teams
- Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day delivery
- Change orientated and innovative with flexible approach to ways of working and adoption of new technologies
To qualify for the role you must have
- Experienced tax practitioner with deep experience of tax transactions
- Any of the following preferred: ATT / ACA / CA / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA e.g. law qualification)
- Graduate or equivalent work experience
- Experience of managing a team and/or coaching and developing team members
- Project management skills plan and prioritize work meet deadlines monitor own budget
What we look for
Youll proactively maintain your technical understanding by keeping abreast of global developments in UK and international tax concepts and issues so that you can better advise our clients. In return well provide investment in specialist training and offer you opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop you so that youre in the best place to build your tax career.
Whatever the projects and assignments you work on you can be sure youre contributing towards helping our clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service.
What we offer
- Continuous learning: Youll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you: Well provide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact your way.
- Transformative leadership: Well give you the insights coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: Youll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
- You can read more here: you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above please contact us as soon as possible.
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Who we are
EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly and at times be based at client sites our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.
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