Location: London

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.

The Private Capital Transactions tax team work with the world’s largest private equity clients as well as specifically focusing on the areas of the deals market that are developing the quickest.

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.

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.

• 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