Consultant (Assistant Manager / Manager), Corporate Tax

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

Organisations today are faced with an increasingly complex global talent landscape. The workforce is more agile, diversified and 'on demand', leading organisations to re-evaluate their talent models and how they deploy teams globally.

We are offering a unique opportunity to join our team and work with Deloitte leaders to develop insights, build experience and truly add value to our client base. This successful team provides ample room for career development and progression.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

We are looking for experienced tax professionals to join our Corporate Tax team in Belfast.

Joining the team in Belfast will give you the opportunity to develop strong relationships with senior tax and finance leaders across a range of industries in the national practice, helping them address their tax management challenges. We can offer a genuinely varied role where you can balance your time on clients in the areas where you want to develop your career.

The team, of over 120 people, located in both Belfast and Hyderabad (India) is involved in most of the corporate tax compliance work which Deloitte undertakes nationally, and the role also offers opportunities in tax reporting, tax audit's services as well as interacting with tax advisory and transactions.

We take individual development very seriously and as well as the opportunity to work on a range of diverse and challenging clients with direct interaction with the partners and directors in the team, you will also receive continuous on the job training.

Our performance management process is structured, transparent and interactive, ensuring you'll receive ongoing supportive feedback to help you achieve your goals.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Liaising with clients to plan and agree engagements to meet their UK direct tax obligations in an efficient and timely manner
• Reviewing all complexities of tax returns and tax accounting (where required), ensuring the quality of work is technically accurate and prepared in line with the firm's standard approach
• In addition, you may be required to prepare complex tax returns and tax accounting from time to time
• Overlaying group information to maximise use of various group allocations, e.g. group relief, group deductions allowance, corporate interest restriction and annual investment allowance
• Working effectively as part of a team to deliver these tax compliance projects
• Advising clients on the impact of recent and proposed legislation as they apply to specific industries and clients
• Using client specific knowledge to identify opportunities for further tax technical projects
• Assisting with the transformation of the annual tax process through process improvement, technology, risk and organisational design
• Planning and managing the implementation of identified technology solutions
• Identifying opportunities in both internal and client processes with the aim of improving and growing services
• Developing and upskilling the team by sharing best practices and insight
• Providing guidance to junior team members on day-to-day issues and to aid their long-term development and growth
• All other corporate compliance related activities as required

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Successful candidates will have:

• Experience of working in a corporate tax compliance role and an understanding of preparation processes
• Ideally AAT, ACA, ACCA or CTA qualified (or equivalent)
• Strong communication skills - both written and oral
• Ability to plan and prioritise workload, meet deadlines and work well under pressure
• Strong client engagement experience
• Able to take ownership and use initiative to resolve problems
• Ability to exercise appropriate level of judgement
• Drive and spirit to succeed and exceed our clients' expectations and a positive approach to personal development
• Strong business acumen and commercial awareness
• Ability to adapt to changes in the external environment rapidly and to respond to clients appropriately in this context
• Good team player with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels
• Experience of delegation and interest and skills to develop more junior members of the team

Connect to your business - Tax

Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"We advise some of the largest, most prestigious clients in the world, so the work is really challenging and exciting. We also have a fantastic team of smart, driven people, and a supportive, entrepreneurial culture where everyone's encouraged to be bold, creative, and ambitious"

Oliver, Tax Consulting

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in (Belfast) with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level .

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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