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Private Business/Private Client Tax; Manager or Senior Manager

Employer
PwC
Location
London
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
1 Apr 2019

Job Details

We are leading experts at offering advice on personal and corporate tax affairs for Private Businesses, their owners and Private Clients.

We are looking for Senior Managers and Managers to join our Private Business Private Client team, based in London. The Private Client and Private Business team in London is an area of significant investment and growth for PwC. We have a talented and diverse team of tax experts focused entirely on this market, with a shared ambition to give our clients the best advice and service possible.

Our clients range from significant family businesses of FTSE equivalent size, to scale-up and fast growth companies and everything in between. We work across all industries sectors. Our private client business advises HNWIs, landed estates, trusts, international and UK clients, family offices and business owners. We have a combined team that joins up all the dots, such that we are really strong where the business and individual’s interests meet.

You will be encouraged to shape and actively manage your career and will be actively supported in the area(s) of the Private Business market within which you work or specialise.

As a tax expert you will be responsible for delivering exceptional client service, strong technical know-how and tailored solutions to meet the personal and commercial objectives of your clients. You will balance an active portfolio of clients and manage multiple project-based assignments, while taking a lead role in managing client relationships.

Specific duties will include

  • Managing client relationships - managing and controlling deliverables and deadlines, handling day-to-day queries and establishing your role as the trusted/primary point of contact.

  • Tax planning and advisory projects, often with an international aspect and often working alongside other PwC advisory areas, including Legal and Investment Advisory teams.

  • Providing advice to entrepreneurs and shareholders on restructuring their business interests, demergers, corporate transactions and deals, cash extraction and succession-planning,

  • Reviewing a wide variety of personal tax returns linked with your own client allocation whilst considering whether any tax-planning opportunities arise

  • Providing advice individuals on all the UK and international tax aspects of their wealth, including trusts, domicile tax law, corporate investments, preparing instructions to Counsel and supporting clients through tax disputes and enquiries.

  • Training and supporting junior team members, from both a technical tax and a client relationship perspective.

  • Technical research and report writing.

  • Leading business development initiatives within the practice

Essential skills

  • Advanced interpersonal and technical skills are a must; You will have strong UK and/or international tax knowledge and demonstrable post-qualification experience of managing a portfolio of clients, leading client relationships, and teams of other tax experts at varying levels of seniority

  • You will have experience of being an all-round business adviser who enjoys working closely with clients to provide them with a pro-active service giving them innovative and commercial tax solutions.

  • You will have the ability to actively seek opportunities for developing new and existing clients, for not only the Tax business, but for other areas of the PwC network too.

  • The ideal candidate will be ACA or CTA qualified, or equivalent.

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.

 

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.

 

Company

Our values define how we do things. And our purpose is why we exist - now more than ever - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and our communities. In a world we no longer recognise, we need to rely on the strength and agility of our people to help us to navigate these uncertain times.

We're committed to ensuring that care and our people's wellbeing remains central to our culture. While we may not know what’s ahead, we can do all we can to help shape the future. As we continue to navigate this unprecedented time, it’s important that we support our people, to help them take care of themselves and to ensure the right support is available when it’s needed.

For now, we ask you to join our talent network and stay in touch with what’s happening in real time, including new possibilities as they arise. Visit our website for more information on how we’re responding to this pandemic and what changes we’re making to our recruitment process. 

Stay safe and stay connected in this rapidly changing world.

PwC

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What we do

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.

What we offer

‘Dress for your day’ policy

At PwC our culture drives our success and gives us a sustainable advantage, and we want to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to work in a way that works best for them and help them become the best that they can be. To support our flexible work environment we’ve evolved our dress code policy to “dress for your day”. This reflects the trust we have in our employees to decide what they think is appropriate given their daily responsibilities.

Flexible Talent Network/Flexible working

We’re looking for talented professionals we can deploy on a recurring basis across all areas of  PwC, depending on our business needs. The way you work is up to you, whether that’s full-time, part-time, term-time or reduced hours, just let us know and we’ll try and match you to a suitable role. As well as wide ranging opportunities across our business, we have a specific need for qualified accountants to work during our busy season and a programme supporting those returning to work after a break.

Our Flexible Talent Network video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhaNetNieV4

As a leading professional services network we’re confident we can offer outstanding training and development opportunities, exposure to multi-disciplinary teams, and support from industry-leading experts. Discover where your talent could take you and join an employer focused on helping you reach your full potential.

Take the opportunity of a lifetime!

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