Senior Associate, Corporate Tax
- Recruiter
- PwC
- Location
- Belfast
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 15 Aug 2017
- Closes
- 26 Aug 2017
- Sectors
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Who we are looking for
We are looking for a Senior Associate to join the successful and growing Belfast Corporate Tax team. We have opportunities for people to work in all parts of our business whether you specialise in advising Multinational groups or prefer working with Private Businesses.
Given the vast majority of our compliance work is managed by dedicated compliance teams across the UK, your role will offer you exposure to a high standard of tax consultancy work on a varied portfolio with great opportunities for career advancement. We are looking for a candidate that has:
The successful candidate will have strong UK corporate tax consultancy knowledge, combined with the proven ability to provide a commercial tax service to our clients and experience of working as part of a client team supporting ongoing clients and contributing to one-off projects.
You will be given the opportunity to work closely with specialists in particular areas such as international tax, structuring, research and development and transfer pricing.
The role is Belfast based but the candidate should expect to travel across the region and cross border on an ad-hoc basis to work with teams and clients across Ireland and the UK.
The responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
We're one of the world's leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
Tax
We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we're one of the UK's leading tax practices.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here
Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
Learn more here
We are looking for a Senior Associate to join the successful and growing Belfast Corporate Tax team. We have opportunities for people to work in all parts of our business whether you specialise in advising Multinational groups or prefer working with Private Businesses.
Given the vast majority of our compliance work is managed by dedicated compliance teams across the UK, your role will offer you exposure to a high standard of tax consultancy work on a varied portfolio with great opportunities for career advancement. We are looking for a candidate that has:
- UK corporate tax consultancy knowledge and experience,
- Passionate for client service with good interpersonal and technical skills
- Experience as a team player that can assist colleagues with a range of corporate tax consultancy tasks and maintain the teams' excellent service to clients at all times
- Interested in high quality challenging work.
The successful candidate will have strong UK corporate tax consultancy knowledge, combined with the proven ability to provide a commercial tax service to our clients and experience of working as part of a client team supporting ongoing clients and contributing to one-off projects.
You will be given the opportunity to work closely with specialists in particular areas such as international tax, structuring, research and development and transfer pricing.
The role is Belfast based but the candidate should expect to travel across the region and cross border on an ad-hoc basis to work with teams and clients across Ireland and the UK.
The responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
- Proactively manage and deliver ad hoc tax consultancy advice on a portfolio of clients and generally work to Managers and above
- Being proactively involved in managing and controlling deliverables, deadlines and project finances of clients
- Reviewing a wide variety of corporate returns linked with your own client allocation whilst considering whether any tax planning opportunities arise.
- Establishing effective working relationships with colleagues and clients
- Contributing to the development of personal and team knowledge
- Building your own network of contacts through regular attendance at internal and external meetings
- Keeping up-to-date with changes in law and the firm's products and services
- Keeping up-to-date with local and national business and economic issues that might potentially impact on clients and /or their industry
- ACA/CTA (or similar) qualification
- Up-to-date UK corporate tax consultancy experience (preferably 2 years+) and may potentially have a mixed tax background
- Excellent interpersonal skills (ability to communicate with non-tax specialists is key)
- Self- motivated
- The ability to work to tight deadlines effectively and manage a broad portfolio of clients and targets.
- Passion for client service and interest in understanding your clients business
- Appetite to support business development efforts to advertise our services and secure new clients
- Able to prioritise workloads efficiently to cope with high volumes of work to deadlines and meet the changing needs of clients
- A team player prepared to assist colleagues to maintain the teams' excellent service to clients at all times
- Self -motivated and continuously learns from experiences. Seeks out feedback and development opportunities.
- Risk aware.
- Experience working with cross border clients on UK tax advisory matters
- Good working knowledge / experience on UK tax / vendor due diligence
Closing date: Friday 15th September
We're one of the world's leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
Tax
We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we're one of the UK's leading tax practices.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here
Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
Learn more here