Managing Director

Job Title:
Managing Director - Corporate Tax

Business Function:
Corporate Finance - Tax

Job Status:
Permanent

Location:
London

Reporting to:
Senior Managing Director - Corporate Tax

About Tax Advisory At FTI
We are an independent expert led tax practice that sits within the Corporate Finance practice of FTI Consulting. We provide corporate business tax advisory services to leading private equity and infrastructure fund houses, FTSE 100/listed groups, international funds and major corporations across a broad suite of tax services and technical specialisms. We have definitive expertise across many areas of tax and take pride in taking a pragmatic and commercial approach to advising clients. Our senior management team members are leaders in their field, and includes tax, accounting, legal, valuations, and technology experts, and economists.

About The Role
We are seeking an experienced proactive and market facing Managing Director in our Tax Advisory practice, based in London, with a specific focus on Corporate Taxes (both advisory and compliance / reporting engagements).

The purpose of the role is to help lead and develop our Corporate Tax team, be responsible for and manage a portfolio of large & complex clients and work closely with our other tax specialist teams across a variety of tax advisory and transaction projects.

Our clients are a mix of both International and Domestic businesses, with a large and/or complex UK footprint, but typically with little or no in-house UK tax expertise, therefore requiring full tax support from the FTI tax team, often working closely with or as part of the in-house finance team.

Our engagements are typically anchored around the provision of corporate tax compliance and reporting support, but will also involve group tax planning & reorganisations, tax advice on financing, M&A transaction support, cross-border tax advisory, tax risk management (such as SAO) and dealing with HMRC. We often lead the relationships and planning on our clients and will manage the support from our other tax specialist colleagues such as Transfer Pricing, Capital Allowances, R&D, Real Estate, VAT, Employment Taxes and Share Schemes.

Our clients operate across a wide range of industries and sectors. Currently, about a third of our portfolio are Real Estate clients and the role may involve working closely with our RE Transactions team to provide post-transaction ongoing tax advisory and compliance support to those clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Help lead and develop the Corporate Tax team and be part of the wider Tax Senior Leadership
• Manage and develop large client relationships
• Lead on delivery of Corporate Tax projects and engagements working closely with other tax specialist teams to provide full support on client relationships
• Ongoing participation in business development and seeking new client and project opportunities, utilising existing and new contacts
• Actively keep up to date on specialist technical matters, contributing to thought leadership material as required
• Appropriately manage risk and financials across your client portfolio
• Provide leadership, coaching and training to junior staff

Education And Qualifications

• Qualified to a degree level (2.1) or equivalent, ideally in a finance or numerical related subject
• ACA, CTA, or equivalent qualified
• At least 10 years PQE

Experience, Skills And Competencies

• Demonstrable background in helping to lead and build a team within a large accounting / tax consultancy firm
• Proven experience in managing and developing the ongoing relationships and delivery of work across a portfolio of large and complex clients
• Track record of building and developing relationships with numerous stakeholders (internally and externally to the firm) and to manage such relationships
• Client focussed and commercially aware
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically and willing to proactively suggest ideas and work with others
• Strong analytical skills and an eye for detail
• Personable and able to integrate with a team and interact with colleagues of all grades
• Excellent communicator in a range of different forums (written and verbal).