M&A Senior Tax Associate, PwC London

About the team

The Private Equity M&A Tax team in London is the largest specialist team in the PwC worldwide M&A network with over 120 partners and staff. Ranging from Private Equity Houses to Public Sector clients, the team has a truly global reach in terms of facilitating global transactions across different territories.

The collaboration between PwC teams locally and overseas, calls upon the extensive M&A network to tailor for each individual deal or transaction to deliver a one packaged solution to our clients.

The dynamic ‘deal-based’ nature of a lot of the work in M&A will present the opportunity to work with leading Investment banks and Law firms in complex and often high-profile deals.About the roleWithin the team there are sub-teams with specialism in Management Taxes, Stamp- Duty Taxes and VAT; we also work closely with the Transaction Services (TS) Team, Transfer Pricing Team and Capital Markets Team at PwC.

Some of the services and products provided by the M&A Tax team include:

Performing Tax Due Diligence reviews which involve looking at existing and potential tax issues, tax compliance and tax risks for clients wishing to sell/acquire businesses.
Provide Tax Structuring advice to help clients operate their business in the most tax efficient manner e.g. devising tax efficient acquisition and disposal steps for clients buying/selling businesses and implications f withholding tax, corporation tax and payroll taxes.
Tax Modelling, to simulate models of future tax liabilities of companies to help our clients make informed economic decisions and shape their business strategy.
Pre and post deal services, including assisting clients with pre-acquisition re-structuring and implementing new tax planning ideas.

The majority of the largest deals done in the UK and FSTE 100 have sought advice from or have been handled by the M&A team in London.

Additional informationAmount of time office based: 80%
Amount of time at client sites: 20%
Need to travel/overnight stays away from home: Occasional
Opportunity for flexible working (hours)?: Yes
Opportunity for working from home?: Potentially

Essential skills and experience
Experience of building internal and external relationships and networks
An ability to plan and deliver work against tight deadlines
Developed communication skills, specifically in negotiating with and influencing others
Ability to work well in a team
Experience in handling multiple complex projects and deadlines simultaneously

Desirable skills:
Tax Due Diligence Reviews, Vendor Assistance, Tax Structuring Advice, Tax modelling
Funds flow, Management tax planning, Sale & Purchase review service
Post deal implementation services
PFI deal structuring and modelling advice
Transaction tax and VAT advice on deals
Stamp Duty

Who we’re looking for:

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’.

The PwC Professional focuses on five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships. We use this framework to recruit, develop and assess our people, at all grades and all areas of our business, because we expect all of our people to be leaders.

Location
London

Tax
We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply
Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity