The role
In a Managed Service, clients are looking for a trusted, proactive partner and a seamless and highly collaborative service that gives them easy access to PwC’s diverse capabilities whilst simplifying how they work with us.
The Business Partnering role is at the heart of delivering this and is a core element of PwC’s Managed Services strategy. We are now embarking on an ambitious expansion of our Business Partnering capabilities, looking in particular for talented relationship builders, with broad tax knowledge, who understand how tax is done in-house and who can take a pragmatic approach to addressing tax risks, opportunities and challenges.
Acting as an extension of a client’s in-house tax or finance team, our Business Partnering team members are experienced tax professionals who take on the business facing role that an in-house tax manager or director would have, including spending time on site. They are the day-to-day face of PwC’s managed service; getting to know the client’s business and knowing what’s happening across PwC’s services.
Key Responsibilities
1. Managing a portfolio of clients, being the primary contact for day-to-day tax matters; Proactively interacting with key client stakeholders to discuss new projects, updates from the business, technical updates.
2. Identifying tax changes that impact the business and acting on these with practical and business-specific recommendations, whilst sharing insights and problem solving with clients.
3. Being the go to contact on tax technical queries and compliance, including managing client compliance obligations, tax accounting and reporting and corporation tax returns.
4. Oversight and responsibility across all PwC services, accessing PwC specialist support and actioning advice with the business.
5. Delivering specific tax projects.
6. Opportunity spotting for related PwC services and helping clients to manage their tax risk.
7. Leading a team, helping them to develop and gain experience across a wide range of clients.
8. Being involved in the running of our practice, contributing to the growth and profitability of the team.
The skills and experience we’re looking for:
9. Strong UK corporate tax knowledge.
10. Must possess an accountancy or tax professional Qualification (e.g., ACA, ATT, CTA, ACCA, or an international equivalent), or have equivalent work experience. This includes international candidates who qualify through experience in their home country.
11. A client service ethos and ability to adopt a flexible approach to meeting client needs.
12. Proven business development experience - ability to help manage and build new business through referrals, networking and spotting client opportunities.
13. Strong stakeholder management internally and externally.