Director, VAT, Financial Advisory

Join the UK's market leading restructuring and advisory tax team and make a real difference on a range of high profile and dynamic transactions, advisory projects and complex insolvencies.

The Teneo Tax Team specialises in providing tax advice on the restructuring of financially distressed businesses as well as advisory services as part of our rapidly growing capital advisory business.

They have built a fantastic track record in recent years, leading on some of the UK's largest and most complex restructuring processes. These include insolvency appointments such as well known company administrations, liquidations and receiverships as well as debt-for-equity swaps, schemes of arrangement and M&A processes.

The variety of work really stands out, as does the friendly and supportive nature of the team. The team has a great mix of UK and international transactions work and is looking to recruit a VAT specialist at Director level to build on the existing business capability and target a number of exciting developments in our key markets. This role is a combination of advisory and oversight of compliance across a broad spectrum of business sectors.

This is a unique opportunity to get involved. The role is technically interesting and personally rewarding.

• Manage the effective delivery of indirect tax projects, ensuring technical excellence in a complex commercial environment
• Mentor and develop junior team members
• Contribute to winning new work by building and maintaining client relationships (including internal stakeholders) with support of the wider tax team
• Keep up to date with indirect tax legislation and practical changes and assist in the technical development of the team
• Responsible for managing team members to meet project deadlines and HMRC liaison where appropriate

• CTA qualified with excellent VAT technical and analytical skills
• Broad UK VAT technical knowledge/experience
• Strong partial exemption, insolvency and M&A experience is very useful
• A commitment to team working
• Excellent project management skills and the ability to prioritise tasks
• Ability to build strong client relationships, both internal and external
• Existing strong client and market relationships

New joiners are supported by a week-long induction programme, and continuous improvement is achieved through a structured and tailored programme that suits your career development.

As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;

• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Cash benefits allowance
• Pension Scheme
• Extensive investment in personal development & learning
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Group Income protection
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,500 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.