Tax Advisory & Compliance Services, Senior Manager

We are a leading provider of technology enabled corporate tax compliance and integrated advisory services, working across a prestigious client base. A career within our corporate tax team, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. You will advise Regional clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant and trusted adviser on a wide spectrum of tax issues, navigating the evolving UK and international tax landscape.
Our team is agile and open to new ways of working. The investment in automation and robotics enables us to be at the forefront of change and innovation. Together, we produce technical excellence, innovative solutions and an outstanding client experience.

Our Regional large corporate tax team comprises our offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, the East Midlands, Milton Keynes, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen however our team spans multiple other locations across the UK and we work collaboratively, as one team, with overseas centres.

The role

As a Senior Manager, you will work alongside our Compliance Centre of Excellence, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Our clients range from multinationals to smaller mid tier clients across a wide range of industry sectors, providing you with opportunities to broaden your technical knowledge and providing opportunities to specialise in.

As a Senior Manager, you will sit within our Regional market and work alongside our Compliance Centre of Excellence, helping our Regional clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Our clients range from multinationals to smaller mid tier clients across a wide range of industry sectors, providing you with opportunities to broaden your technical knowledge and providing opportunities to specialise in particular industries or technical areas. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Working with our Partner and Director team to develop and build strong client relationships, identifying opportunities to solve our clients problems and build our business;
• Managing a portfolio of clients, being the primary contact for all day-to-day tax matters;
• Opportunity spotting for related PwC services and helping clients to manage their tax risk;
• Leading a team of our more junior staff, helping them to develop and gain experience across a wide range of clients;
• Contributing to the development and sharing of technical knowledge;
• Being inquisitive, understanding the changing business environment, and considering how this impacts our clients;
• Developing internal relationships with our subject matter and line of services specialists;
• Managing our risk processes, investment in clients and related financial metrics and budget management.
• Managing client compliance obligations including all aspects of tax accounting and reporting and corporation tax returns.

Essential skills and experience

• Practice-trained finance professional, with relevant qualification (e.g. ACA/ACCA/CTA, ICAEw). or have demonstrable knowledge and skills that these qualifications provide
• Experience of advising large corporate clients on UK and international tax matters.
• Proven client relationship skills with strong interpersonal skills and ability to sustain relationships over a period of time
• Be an effective delegator and strong coach for more junior staff
• Have an interest in and understanding of broader UK and global business issues, and be confident discussing these issues with clients.
• Analytical skills and an ability to solve complex problems in a collaborative and creative way.
• Have the ability to help manage and build new business through referrals, networking and spotting client opportunities
• Sound accounting knowledge, including familiarity with accounting principles and ability to understand and interpret statutory accounts.
• Ability to write clear articulate reports summarising complex tax matters.
• Ability to manage your own time and to manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders.
• Commitment to developing self, proactive mindset and desire to make the role your own.

You will will benefit from:

• Experience working across a broad range of clients and technical areas, including the opportunity to specialise or deepen specialist knowledge in a particular technical area or industry. We have opportunities across the business.
• Being empowered to apply a growth mindset and play a part in shaping the future of compliance practices and approaches.
• Opportunity to continuously develop your technical, professional and digital skills based on your interests and ambition.
• Opportunity to drive and direct your career with mentorship from senior leaders.
• Empowered flexibility - As part of a hybrid working approach, it's our commitment to empowering our people to flex working patterns to accommodate what works best for you, our team and our clients.
• Being part of an inclusive and diverse team who support and encourage one another to be the best they can be.

We are an expanding, agile team of fun, collaborative individuals which gives people the opportunity to grow in their career. At PwC you will tap into a culture of openness, creativity and inclusivity and we are seeking like minded individuals to join us on our journey.