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About the Role
We're looking for a Director to support our Media and Entertainment tax team. You'll work with a broad range of clients across the sector, providing corporate tax advisory and compliance services, and bringing together deep technical knowledge of creative industry reliefs with broader corporate tax expertise.
Responsibilities
- Supporting portfolio of corporate tax compliance and provision engagements, with particular responsibility for complex Creative Industry Tax Relief claims across TV, film and video games
- Acting as the primary point of contact for a defined client base, building relationships that go well beyond the engagement
- Leading large and complex audit of tax engagements for media sector clients, managing the relationship with audit teams and reviewing technical positions
- Advising media clients on tax structuring, including international expansion and migration of operations and rights
- Providing Enterprise Investment Scheme advice to clients raising investment into qualifying media and entertainment ventures
- Supporting the transactions practice on deal structuring and tax diligence for media companies, including sell-side advisory
- Managing, coaching and developing a team of tax professionals, and taking an active role in their technical training and career progression
- Setting the standard for quality and technical rigour across the team's output
- Playing a part in recruitment and resourcing decisions for the media tax team
- Owning financial performance for your portfolio, including billing, recoveries and WIP management
- Making sure engagements are risk-managed appropriately and in line with firm policy
- Contributing to the wider operational running of the tax service line
- Building and maintaining a network of contacts across the media sector, including intermediaries, industry bodies and target clients
- Spotting and converting new business opportunities within existing and new clients
- Representing the firm at industry events and contributing to thought leadership on media sector tax matters
- Working with colleagues across the firm to spot cross-selling opportunities
Requirements
- Fully tax qualified and comfortable leading an engagement across the entire corporate tax role - compliance, provision, advisory and reliefs
- CTA and/or ACA qualified (or equivalent), with significant post-qualification experience in corporate tax
- Strong technical knowledge of Creative Industry Tax Reliefs across TV, film and video games
- Experience advising on tax structuring, including international expansion and migration
- A track record of managing complex compliance and advisory engagements, ideally including audit of tax work
- Experience supporting transactions, including sell-side advisory and tax diligence
- Proven people management experience, with a genuine interest in developing others
- Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to advise senior stakeholders and represent the firm externally
Skills
- Corporate tax advisory
- Corporate tax compliance
- Creative industry reliefs
- Corporate tax expertise
- Audit of tax
- Tax structuring
- International expansion
- Migration of operations and rights
- Enterprise Investment Scheme advice
- Deal structuring
- Tax diligence
- Sell-side advisory
- People management
- Team development
- Financial performance management
- Risk management
- Business development
- Networking
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Flexible working options
Experience Level
- Director
- Significant post-qualification experience
Education Level
- CTA qualified
- ACA qualified
Benefits
- Real opportunity
- Inclusive culture
- Work life balance
- Genuine investment in your development as a leader
- Team support
- Secondments
- Fundraising for local charities
- Investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world
About the Company
- At Grant Thornton we do things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry.
- Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership.
- We empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance.
- With over 5,000 people in the UK, and a presence in 150 global markets, we're on an ambitious journey, from great to exceptional.
- Our values are: purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind.