Managing Director

Job Title:
M
anaging Director
- Transactions Tax
Business Function:
C
orporate Finance - UK Tax
Job Status:
P
ermanent
Location:
London
Reporting to:
Senior Managing Director, Corporate Finance - UK Tax
About Tax Advisory: HF-LI
We provide business tax advisory services to leading private equity and infrastructure fund houses, and major corporations across a broad suite of tax services and technical specialisms. We are an independent expert led tax practice with definitive expertise across many areas of tax and a commercial approach to advising our clients. Our senior management team members are leaders in their field, qualified in accounting, tax, law and surveying and the team also includes valuations and technology experts and economists.

About The Role
The Corporate Finance Practice in FTI Consulting is seeking a Managing Director to lead in building the M&A and transactions tax service offering as well as leading tax workstream on transactions (including transaction advisory, structuring and due diligence on projects).

The tax team is involved in many transaction and due diligence projects which are generated from a variety of sources including the tax client base, part of wider projects with our Transaction Services and Restructuring teams, referrals from our international network, WTS Global, and referrals from other international parts of the FTI firm including our own transaction tax teams in the US and UAE. The role is to join as a senior member of the tax team and to lead the M&A and transactions team alongside leadership to build and grow the team both internally and outwardly to the market.

Ideally you will have multi-year experience of advising on transactions, are commercially minded when delivering transaction tax advice to clients, and can demonstrate skills to build strong relationships with clients. You are likely part of a transaction services team at Big 4 or equivalent and have been advising on infrastructure, private equity or corporate M&A transactions for a number of years.

At FTI, senior team members are encouraged to be actively present in the market and as part of this role you will have a responsibility to build relationships with new and existing clients. Working on transactions involves working across a diverse range of industries and jurisdictions and involves dealing with complexity and ambiguity in situations to help clients successfully execute their transaction and as our team is a growing team, there will be an expectation that you can work in an agile environment, proactively lead and manage the more junior members of the team and navigate through different situations.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading on the tax components of transactions including structuring and due diligence exercises;
• Building relationships with key and potential clients to provide excellent transaction advice;
• Market awareness of transaction trends with strong commercial awareness
• Collaborating with various departments within the firm to enhance service delivery and client relationships
• Providing leadership, coaching and training to junior staff
• Actively keeping up to date on technical matters and dealing with detailed technical queries raised, coordinating the preparation of practical, robustly supported advice
• Producing thought leadership

Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree (2.1) or equivalent
• ACA, CTA or equivalent qualified

Experience, Skills and Competencies:

• More than 6 years PQE work experience in corporate tax.
• Excellent technical skills and keen to develop further.
• Excellent project management skills, capable of planning and prioritising work whilst meeting deadlines.
• Proven ability to build and develop relationships with numerous stakeholders (internally and externally to the firm) and to manage such relationships.
• Client focused and commercially aware.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically and willing to proactively suggest ideas and work with others.
• Excellent communicator in a range of different forums (written and oral).