Consultant, Financial Investors, Indirect Tax Birmingham, England
Job description
Connect to your Industry
The Indirect Tax Team has grown rapidly over the last 5 years and to continue that growth needs high calibre additional resource at Consultant level. Our team is regarded within the firm as one of the leading and most successful service lines, with a reputation for being proactive, entrepreneurial, successful and fun to work with. We reward our employees on merit and not time served.
Working for us will present you with the opportunity to get involved with high profile clients and expand your horizons.
The Financial Investors VAT team sits within the Indirect Tax group and primarily works alongside Deloitte's Transactions team - one of the most dynamic and fast-growing areas of the business. The team advises across all aspects of VAT for our financial investor clients - working on many of the highest value private equity and real estate transactions in the country, supporting high profile investment businesses on their VAT positions and advising private equity backed businesses in all sectors.
Team members split their time between providing pragmatic advice on transactions scenarios and building and maintaining advisory relationships. In this way the team develops a well-rounded knowledge of the constantly evolving VAT matters impacting various sectors, including real estate, energy & infrastructure and TMT.
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
Working in Deloitte's Financial Investors VAT team will present any new member with the opportunity to become involved in challenging and interesting work, where innovation is welcomed, and team spirit is vibrant and sociable.
Your skill set will be enhanced with us, and there will be plenty of opportunity for you to progress quickly, as you work on engagements involving a diverse range of clients with specific needs and requirements. This may include collaborating and working with our specialist Global Trade Advisory, Compliance and Technology and Litigation, Advisory and Settlement teams depending on your own interests and those of your clients.
As you are given the autonomy to establish your own contacts within a client and reach your own solutions your independence will be accelerated.
It is up to you to take this independence and build your own network. Whilst autonomy is encouraged the team network will always be available when you need support and advice.
You will have responsibility for:
- Leading small teams day-to-day on client engagements (likely to be a balance of transaction projects and advisory work), supported by a Director or Partner
- Assisting with deepening relationships with clients and targets, contributing to winning new work
- Assisting with developing Analysts and Consultants with hands on advice and support
- Input into development of new market opportunities locally, nationally and internationally with an opportunity to lead the market development of the new ideas
- Working closely with colleagues in other parts of the firm, particularly within Transactions
- Helping to shape the culture and goals of the team, ensuring it remains a great place to work
- Having a broader perspective of potential issues encountered when managing diverse teams and the strategies to overcome them; having a clear understanding of the firm's commitment to creating a more inclusive culture
Connect to your skills and professional experience
To qualify for the role you must have:
- CTA or equivalent qualification
- Relevant experience either in practice, industry or with HMRC
- Excellent client facing, relationship building and business development skills, coupled with commercial awareness
- The ability to be proactive, identify opportunities, take early responsibility and lead project teams
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. 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. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
“At Deloitte we work with some of the world’s biggest and most prestigious businesses, because we’re recognised for our expertise and insight. Every challenge, issue or opportunity has tax considerations – and so we give insightful and proactive advice to help clients navigate risk, complexity, and business-critical decisions.”
- Oliver, Tax Consulting
“I thoroughly enjoy the opportunities and the people I engage with: they enrich my day immensely. Every week throws up new challenges, new risks to assess, new plans to develop.”
- Montine, Tax Consulting
Connect to your agile working options
Location: All UK Locations considered
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
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Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
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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