Consultant, Corporate Tax Advisory (Sports Industry focus), Business Tax

Each of Deloitte's service lines are represented across the practice. This advertised role sits within the Tax Advisory capability and you will be responsible for working within the Tax practice with a focus on the sports industry. This will involve collaboration with all of the relevant service lines, including working closely alongside the Sports Business Group, a group within the Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory practice who exclusively work on sports assignments. There are four pillars within the Sports Business Group, all of which the sports offering with in the Tax service line supports:

• We support major global sports transactions, facilitating client investment through M&A to create future value for private and institutional investors.
• We build a vision for economic development and growth through sport advising governments, public sector and private investors about how to maximise the impacts of their investments.
• We create strategies and reporting mechanisms to support the growth and sustainability of elite sporting organisations in a responsible manner.
• We advise organisations on future-proofing the sports business, charting new opportunities and driving innovation from ideation to delivery.
Joining the team will give you the opportunity to develop strong relationships with senior tax and finance leaders across the sports industry landscape, helping them address their tax management challenges. We can offer a genuinely varied role where you can balance your time on clients in the areas where you want to develop your career. This includes opportunities in tax compliance, tax reporting, tax advisory and transactions. Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most. Connect to your opportunity You will use commercial awareness and technical knowledge, along with leveraging the skills and expertise of colleagues from across our Business Tax practice, to deliver the best possible experience and outcomes for our clients in tax compliance and advisory projects. You will have the opportunity to be a people manager and a coach, with development of the team at the heart of the role. You will be a confident team player and enjoy sharing your knowledge and expertise with others, as well as continuing to build your own technical expertise or specialism. A role within the Business Tax team will involve:
• Acting as the main contact for your client portfolio - building deep trusted client relationships and being responsible for quality, delivery and all aspects of client service on the engagement;
• Using your knowledge of your clients' businesses to help bring tax advisory solutions - taking a leading role in delivering these advisory projects and working with our specialist teams (e.g. transfer pricing);
• Working with overseas member firms to deliver high quality tax solutions to large multinational organisations;
• Applying your understanding of how the evolving international tax landscape impacts large multinational organisations (e.g. Pillar II legislation);
• Developing an understanding our your clients' tax data and technologies, and building your experience of our tax management consulting advisory services, to identify and help deliver improvements to your clients' tax compliance and reporting processes, technologies and governance - offering a holistic solution;
• Having the opportunity to work on the tax audits of major multinationals, identifying and resolving material tax technical issues and reviewing the accuracy of tax reporting;
• Mentoring more junior members of the team, playing an active role in their development;
• Working across a range of industries (including Financial Services, Consumer Business, Energy & Resources, Technology, Media and Telecommunications); and
• Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.
  
  Our people are talented, out-going and flexible individuals who are confident working side by side with senior personnel to become trusted business advisors. They have deep experience in their corporate tax technical specialism but are able to adapt to the ever evolving world at the leading edge of tax management consultancy.
To qualify for the role you should be/have:
• ACA/CTA or equivalent qualification or experience;
• Experience of advising on transactions, both from a diligence and structuring perspective;
• Previous tax experience gained in industry or a professional services firm;
• Day to day management of a portfolio of clients;
• Relationship management with key UK and International contacts;
• Managing a team of individuals to deliver tax services to a varied portfolio of clients;
• Delivery and management of tax advisory projects, potentially including international restructuring and refinancing, transfer pricing and M&A projects;
• Managing and overseeing compliance and advisory projects, with regards to managing client and statutory deadlines, billing requirements and delegating effectively to both UK and overseas teams;
• Dealing with HM Revenue and Customs on technical matters; and
• Excellent communication and project management skills.
Interested candidates would not be required to have sports industry experience, but should demonstrate a wide interest in key sports markets.

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