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Corporate Tax Associate Director

United Kingdom, Manchester · Job Posted June 28, 2026
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Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. The Corporate and Multinational tax team specialises in working with large complex businesses to navigate the ever-changing corporate tax landscape, manage tax risk and ensure compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations. In everything we do our aim is to deliver tailored, proactive and value add service to our clients. We combine technical expertise with a commercial approach, to build a strong trusted adviser relationship with our clients. We work with sophisticated tax teams, which means that the work we do is technically challenging and international. We have ambitious growth plans and are looking for an experienced, self-motivated and enthusiastic Associate Director with a strong UK corporation tax background to work within our team.

Job Responsibility

  • Advising a broad range of clients on a range of tax issues, covering a broad range of compliance and advisory projects
  • Leading client relationships and, together with the senior team, deliver solutions for client advisory projects
  • Managing the preparation of tax provisions and ensuring tax reporting obligations and compliance deadlines are met
  • Develop and lead your own client portfolio, ensuring a high level of client service
  • Work closely with our colleagues across the Grant Thornton’s tax practice, to identify opportunities from both new and existing clients
  • Proactively train and develop more junior members of the team, including through the delivery of bespoke training sessions
  • Lead from the front in regards to delivering client work, engaging with the wider Tax teams to ensure correct skill utilisation on all projects
  • Actively contribute to business development activities by proactively managing existing relationships and pitching work to new clients. You will support the partner and director team on proposals. You’ll actively grow the business by being present in the market and demonstrating our capabilities to clients and targets
  • Have a thorough understanding and adhere to the firm’s risk management and quality procedures

Requirements

  • Professional qualification (ATT, CTA, ACA, ICAS or ACA) with post qualification experience
  • Confident managing a portfolio of tax clients
  • Strong UK corporation tax technical skills, including leading domestic and international advisory projects, and experience with tax provisioning / interim and full year group reporting
  • Strong corporate tax compliance experience – experience in advising and awareness of the hybrid and other mismatch rules, interest deductibility, controlled foreign companies regime, Pillar 2, etc
  • A track record of leading projects, with a focus on accountability, high quality and timely delivery
  • Self-motivated and strong team player
  • Excellent interpersonal skills are required in addition to strong oral and written communication skills
  • Experience of coaching and developing more junior team members
  • A desire to network and play an active part in the growth of the broader team
  • You'll apply critical reasoning to bring clarity and insight
  • Familiarity with Alphatax, Power BI, Microsoft Office, and other relevant software

Nice to have

  • Strong UK corporation tax technical skills, including leading domestic and international advisory projects, and experience with tax provisioning / interim and full year group reporting
  • Strong corporate tax compliance experience – experience in advising and awareness of the hybrid and other mismatch rules, interest deductibility, controlled foreign companies regime, Pillar 2, etc
  • A track record of leading projects, with a focus on accountability, high quality and timely delivery
  • Self-motivated and strong team player
  • Excellent interpersonal skills are required in addition to strong oral and written communication skills
  • Experience of coaching and developing more junior team members
  • A desire to network and play an active part in the growth of the broader team
  • You'll apply critical reasoning to bring clarity and insight
  • Familiarity with Alphatax, Power BI, Microsoft Office, and other relevant software

What we offer

  • Life cover
  • Income protection
  • Matched pension
  • Screening
  • Dental and eye care
  • Doctor@Hand
  • Mortgage advice
  • Will writing
  • Investment accounts
  • Buying holiday
  • Bike schemes
  • Discounts and cashback
  • Tailored development programmes and access to coaching
  • Flexible bank holidays
  • Pension
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical
  • Additional holiday purchasing
  • Health benefits
  • Shopping discounts
  • Gym memberships
  • Financial advice

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