VAT Director | Corporate Finance

2 months ago

London, UK, United Kingdom FTI Consulting Full time

FTI Consulting is the world’s leading expert-driven consulting firm. Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting experts have served as the trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies and the world’s leading law and private equity firms when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. Our strong performance and continued success are a direct reflection of the ambition, energy, and commitment of our talented professionals across the globe to make a positive impact for our clients and communities.

At FTI Consulting, you’ll be inspired and empowered to make an impact on headline matters that change history. Working side by side with the world’s leading experts in your field, you’ll be surrounded by an open collaborative culture that embraces diversity, recognition, professional development and most importantly, you.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join FTI Consulting and this is where you will do the most exciting and fulfilling work of your career.

Are you ready to make an impact?

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:

The practice is seeking a proactive and market facing Indirect Tax Director to help the growth of our Indirect Tax practice. The role will require the individual to help the Indirect Tax team win, manage, and deliver a wide range of indirect tax advisory projects for clients operating in the real estate, large and complex corporate, life science, and investor sectors. The role will also involve a limited amount of VAT compliance work, mostly arising from insolvency appointments led by our Restructuring group, but this is not our focus area and would be incidental to the higher value and more complex advisory portfolio.

The Indirect Tax team itself has an exciting growth trajectory and works with a wide range of complex and interesting international and domestic businesses on all facets of UK VAT, including supply chain advisory, due diligence and structuring advice on M&A and real estate transactions, dispute resolution, and risk and governance.

We are a member of the WTS International network which specialises in providing tax advice to clients with a global footprint. The role will involve taking a lead in responding to queries from the network and assisting their client base with UK VAT matters.

What You’ll Do

  • Providing a high standard of indirect tax technical and project management support to the growth of the Indirect Tax and wider tax teams.
  • Taking ownership of and running Indirect Tax advisory engagements.
  • Assisting with due diligences, transaction advisory and restructuring advisory work.
  • Fielding and addressing queries arising from the WTS International network.
  • Managing part of the practices limited VAT compliance portfolio, acting as the lead with clients and dealing with HMRC queries.
  • Delegating to and being actively involved in the development of the junior team.
  • Keeping up to date on technical matters and taking an active role in educating the wider tax team on indirect tax matters.
  • Helping to develop and execute business development initiatives.

How You’ll Grow

We are committed to investing and supporting you in your professional development and we have developed a range of programs focused on fostering leadership, growth and development opportunities. We aim to promote continuous learning and individual skills development through on-the-job learning, self-guided professional development courses and certifications. You’ll be assigned a dedicated coach to mentor, guide and support you through regular coaching sessions and serve as an advocate for your professional growth.

As you progress through your career at FTI Consulting, we offer tailored programs for critical professional milestones to ensure you are prepared and empowered to take on your next role.

What You Will Need to Succeed

Experience, Skills and Competencies:

  • Approximately 6 to 8 years’ experience working in Indirect Tax.
  • CTA qualified or hold an equivalent qualification.
  • An excellent understanding of UK VAT law is essential. Experience having advised on other Indirect Taxes (Customs, Excise, Environmental) is desirable but not essential.
  • Highly organised, have a good attention to detail and being able work to deadlines.
  • Able to communicate complex technical issues in a straightforward and practical way to tax and non-tax specialists.
  • Able to integrate with a team and interact with colleagues of all grades.
  • Able to build and maintain client relationships.
  • Able to prioritise and manage a varied workload under pressure.
  • A desire to contribute to business development initiatives and to take some ownership of the growth of the Indirect Tax function with support from the senior tax team.
  • Proven ability to take ownership of projects and come to decisions independently whilst being supported by the senior tax team.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.).
  • Be aware of and be able to manage engagement financials and risk.

Our Benefits

Our goal is to support the well–being of you and your families—physically, emotionally, and financially. We offer market competitive benefits (including pension), supplemented by 15 flexible benefits, to meet your needs. These include health, lifestyle and family friendly options. We also offer professional development programme, wellness, recognition, community volunteering initiatives, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements.

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