Corporate Tax Associate Director

Join Grant Thornton, a leading business and financial advisory firm, as a Corporate Tax Associate Director. In this role, you will work with large complex businesses to navigate the corporate tax landscape, manage tax risk, and ensure compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations. You will lead client relationships, manage tax provisions, develop your own client portfolio, and contribute to business development activities. The ideal candidate will have a strong UK corporation tax background, excellent interpersonal skills, and a desire to network and grow the team.

• Advising a broad range of clients on various tax issues, leading client relationships, and delivering solutions for client advisory projects.
• Managing the preparation of tax provisions, ensuring tax reporting obligations and compliance deadlines are met, and developing and leading your own client portfolio.
• Proactively training and developing junior team members, engaging with the wider Tax teams to ensure correct skill utilization on all projects.
• We have ambitious growth plans and are looking for an experienced, self-motivated and enthusiastic Associate Director with a strong UK corporation tax background to work within our team
• It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don’t worry if you don’t tick every box, we’ll help you develop along the way
• You'll apply critical reasoning to bring clarity and insight. We do it by asking great questions, listening and drawing on our collective knowledge and experience to really help others grow
• A track record of leading projects, with a focus on accountability, high quality and timely delivery
• Strong corporate tax compliance experience – experience in advising and awareness of the hybrid and other mismatch rules, interest deductibility, controlled foreign companies regime, Pillar 2, etc
• Excellent interpersonal skills are required in addition to strong oral and written communication skills
• Experience of coaching and developing more junior team members
• A desire to network and play an active part in the growth of the broader team
• Joining us as a Corporate Tax AD the minimum criteria you’ll need is a professional qualification (ATT, CTA, ACA, ICAS or ACA) with post qualification experience, and will be confident managing a portfolio of tax clients
• Familiarity with Alphatax, Power BI, Microsoft Office, and other relevant software
• Strong UK corporation tax technical skills, including leading domestic and international advisory projects, and experience with tax provisioning / interim and full year group reporting
• Self-motivated and strong team player