Corporate Tax Associate Director

Overview

At Grant Thornton we do things differently – looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance. A true alternative.

Every day our teams help people, businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. We pride ourselves on helping our clients achieve their strategic aims whilst maximising the tax exemptions available to them.

We work with a diverse range of organisations, including University Groups, Social Housing Groups, Registered Charities, Mutual Traders, Local Authorities and Local Authority Trading Companies. We provide tax structuring, tax compliance and tax due diligence advice to support these organisations, who represent some of the less privileged in society, growing to deliver more valuable services for the benefit of the communities they represent.

Our ideas and insight empower our clients to make big decisions about the future, potential diversification in the face of reduced grant funding and unlock sustainable growth.

Given our large Social Housing and Local Authority client base, a large amount of our work is focused on real estate transactions including tax structuring on collaborative regeneration projects, mixed‑tenure development schemes, student housing and acquisitions/disposals arising from estate management projects. We advise on Capital Gains and Corporate Tax and work closely with our colleagues in Stamp Taxes and VAT to provide holistic tax advice.

We are happy to discuss flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares to support work‑life balance.

As an Associate Director within our Tax team, you will:

• Advising a broad range of Public Sector clients on a range of tax issues, covering a broad set of compliance and advisory projects.
• Actively involved in client meetings, concisely and confidently answering client queries.
• Engender trust and respect from clients by producing high‑quality tax advice accurately, delivering on expectations and deadlines.
• Lead from the front in delivering client work, engaging with the wider Tax teams to ensure correct skill utilisation on all projects.
• Take responsibility for developing more junior team members, understanding their career aspirations and supporting them.
• Provide intelligent and creative solutions to client tax issues both reactively and proactively, taking an active approach to cross‑selling wider solutions for other teams around the GT network.
• Drive pitch/proposals – actively grow the business by being present in the market and demonstrating our capabilities to clients and targets.

Joining us as an Associate Director, the minimum criteria you’ll need:

• ACA / ACCA / CTA qualified or equivalent qualification.
• UK corporate tax experience, ideally within the Real Estate / Public sector.
• Experience of monitoring junior team members’ work and coaching and career development.

• Strong knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation, ideally within Real Estate / Public sector.
• Reviewed work and supervised people in a tax environment.
• Experience working within a professional services environment.
• Experience managing a large portfolio of tax clients.
• Demonstrable business development experience.
• Eagerness to develop deep knowledge of the firm’s services and capabilities.

Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on contributions of all our people. We value difference and respect our colleagues, build an inclusive culture and give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work.

Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm.

We’re looking for people who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations.

Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.

It’s how it should be.