Director, Real Estate Tax Advisory, London
About the role
Director - Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction
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 with UK / overseas MNCs, lawyers and banks on complex and exciting projects.
Our international 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 junior 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
- ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training Course; or Law qualification
- Degree qualified
- Experienced corporate tax practitioner
- Proven ability to read and interpret existing and new tax statute
- Experience of working in a client facing role in UK tax or similar jurisdiction
- Experience of working within the Real Estate sector
- Project management skills, plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
What we offer
Continuous learning
Success as defined by you
Transformative leadership
Diverse and inclusive culture
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