Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. In Real Estate Tax we pride ourselves on helping transform our clients’ real estate into greater assets. Every day, we provide a diverse range of organisations with the kind of business and financial advice it takes to do this. Our ideas and insight empower our clients to make big decisions about the future and unlock sustainable growth. With a relentless focus on quality and integrity, we help businesses, communities and our people to flourish.
We advise real estate funds, global institutional investors, REITs, private investors, the public sector, on investment into UK and pan-European real estate providing tax structuring, tax compliance and tax due diligence advice. We work in all real estate sectors including commercial, office, student housing, industrial logistics, retail and hotels.
We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we’ll support you to balance your work and life.
A look into the role
As an Associate Director within our Real Estate Tax (RET) team, you will:
- Be a part of a high performing team with a great deal of tenure within the firm and the sector. We offer opportunities to work with high profile clients and on challenging projects.
- Take responsibility for developing more junior team members, understanding their career aspirations.
- Work with the biggest names in the market on some of the most interesting projects around – multi-jurisdictional transactions across real estate and infrastructure with current transactions on in the £60m, £250m and £500m ranges and recent deals over £1bn. The growing number of large clients now working with us means there are huge opportunities for rapid promotion at all levels.
- Own your own work – we are a team of self-starters and will give you the opportunity to cut your own path within the role. With the support of the Partner and Directors, you’ll lead from the front when it comes to dealing with clients, delivering work and engaging with the Real Estate and broader Tax teams. We’ll ensure that you are supported by a team of capable and engaged tax colleagues.
Knowing you’re right for us
Joining us as an Associate Director the minimum criteria you’ll need:
- ACA / ACCA / CTA qualified or equivalent qualification
- UK corporate tax experience, ideally within the Real Estate sector
- Experience of monitoring junior team members’ work and coaching / career development
Preferably, you’ll also have experience in the UK Real Estate market, and demonstrable Business Development experience including working collaboratively with Partner and Director team to build relationships on key accounts
It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don’t worry if you don’t tick every box, we’ll help you to develop along the way.
- Tax structuring – helping our clients to buy and sell properties in a tax efficient manner
- International tax advice and due diligence services on cross-border transactions
- Participate and lead in business development initiatives and proposal activity
- Tax compliance – advising our clients about on-going tax requirements
- Setting up property funds including UK Real Estate Investment Trusts
As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.
