Real Estate Tax Associate Director

Overview

Alternatively, Grant Thornton 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. With over 5,000 people in the UK, and a presence in 150 global markets, we’re on an ambitious journey, from great to exceptional, and we need the best people to help us achieve our potential. And with that comes the opportunity to help redefine what our industry looks like, and what you want from your career.

Job Description: Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. In Real Estate Tax we pride ourselves on helping transform our clients’ real estate into greater assets. Every day, we provide a diverse range of organisations with the kind of business and financial advice it takes to do this. Our ideas and insight empower our clients to make big decisions about the future and unlock sustainable growth. With a relentless focus on quality and integrity, we help businesses, communities and our people to flourish. We advise real estate funds, global institutional investors, REITs, private investors, the public sector, on investment into UK and pan-European real estate providing tax structuring, tax compliance and tax due diligence advice. We work in all real estate sectors including commercial, office, student housing, industrial logistics, retail and hotels. We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we’ll support you to balance your work and life.

Responsibilities

• Be a part of a high performing team with a great deal of tenure within the firm and the sector.
• We offer opportunities to work with high profile clients and on challenging projects.
• Take responsibility for developing more junior team members, understanding their career aspirations.
• Work with the biggest names in the market on some of the most interesting projects around – multi‑jurisdictional transactions across real estate and infrastructure with current transactions in the £60m, £250m and £500m ranges and recent deals over £1bn.
• The growing number of large clients now working with us means there are huge opportunities for rapid promotion at all levels.
• Own your own work – we are a team of self‑starters and will give you the opportunity to cut your own path within the role.
• With the support of the Partner and Directors, you’ll lead from the front when it comes to dealing with clients, delivering work and engaging with the Real Estate and broader Tax teams.
• We’ll ensure that you are supported by a team of capable and engaged tax colleagues.

Qualifications

• ACA / ACCA / CTA qualified or equivalent qualification UK corporate tax experience, ideally within the Real Estate sector
• Experience of monitoring junior team members’ work and coaching / career development
• Preferably, you’ll have experience in the UK Real Estate market, and demonstrable Business Development experience including working collaboratively with Partner and Director team to build relationships on key accounts

Preferred Skills

• Tax structuring - helping our clients to buy and sell properties in a tax efficient manner
• International tax advice and due diligence services on cross‑border transactions
• Participate and lead in business development initiatives and proposal activity
• Tax compliance – advising our clients about on‑going tax requirements
• Setting up property funds including UK Real Estate Investment Trusts

Benefits & Working Arrangements

We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we’ll support you to balance your work and life. Whether that’s working reduced contracted hours, working your hours over a shorter period or utilising our ‘how we work’ framework, everyone has an immediate right to request a flexible arrangement through our flexible working policy. Read more about our approach to flexible working.

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