Associate Director, Corporate Tax

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.

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, 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.

We are looking for an experienced tax professional to join our corporate tax team in Reading. Expand your skill set and take the opportunity to establish deep client relationships and build your client portfolio with some of the largest and most influential companies. Joining our team will allow you to expand your tax advisory skills, due to the breadth and variety of work we can offer and our dynamic client base.

The Reading Corporate Tax team is over 100 strong and covers a wide range of disciplines including international tax, transfer pricing, mergers and acquisitions and private client services allowing us to serve a large range of clients across the multi‑national and privately‑owned markets.

Our Associate Directors take the lead on managing our client services. You will use your commercial awareness and professional expertise, along with leveraging the skills and expertise of others, to deliver the best possible experience and outcomes for our clients. 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, you will also receive continuous on‑the‑job training.

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

• Ownership and development of existing UK and international client relationships and cultivation of new relationships
• Support senior team members and subject matter specialists in communication, marketing and delivery of a range of advisory services to clients
• Development of the technical and operational skill set of junior team members
• Managing and overseeing compliance and advisory projects, with regards to managing client and statutory deadlines, billing requirements and delegating effectively to your team
• Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution

• Current or past experience in a practice firm
• ICAEW or CTA qualifications (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

Our…