Entity Governance and Compliance, Senior Associate

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Job description

Tax

We help our clients stay ahead of changes that impact their businesses, navigating complexity and risk. We deliver deep tax technical, people and legal expertise, while providing the critical context to make informed and compliant decisions. With clients ranging from multinational organisations and public sector bodies to entrepreneurs and family businesses, the work we do is diverse.

Hear from Ed Stacey, Tax People Leader about what a career in Tax could mean for you - from development, to our culture, to what we value in our people when building our team.

Our Entity Governance & Compliance (EGC) business sits within our Tax & Legal Line of Service, and helps our clients stay ahead of changes that impact their businesses, navigating complexity and risk. We deliver deep Tax, Legal and Governance expertise, while providing the critical context to make informed and compliant decisions. With clients ranging from multinational organisations to entrepreneurs and family businesses, the work we do is diverse

The EGC team consists of 50+ members across London, Birmingham, Manchester and Belfast with a leadership team of 10.

The EGC team is a market leading global practice and is part of a network of over 3,500 legal and governance professionals in 160 countries led by Jonathan Gibson in the UK.

The team specialises in supporting clients on all aspects of governance, transactions and compliance, and is at the forefront of UK and global corporate governance reforms, providing market leading thought leadership in the industry.

This role requires someone who wants to be involved in innovative projects for clients.

About the role:

• Support the delivery of governance and transaction projects (including entity restructuring and simplification mandates, design and implementation of corporate governance frameworks, provision of director training, and more).
• Coach and support other members of the team.
• Develop client relationships.
• Collaborate with and develop relationships with colleagues across the firm.
• Manage time against a budget on client projects.
• Embrace new technologies including visualisation tools such as Tableau to deliver quality outputs as efficiently as possible.
• Consider better and innovative ways of supporting clients and the team.

There will also be opportunities to support new business development, and progress a career with PwC by developing new skills according to PwC's professional leadership development framework.

Coaching and mentoring will be provided

Essential skills:

• Passionate about client service - a strong willingness to deliver excellent client service, add value and flexibly meet client requirements.
• Ability to develop relationships with clients and colleagues at all levels.
• Self awareness and open to personal development.
• Experience in coaching and developing others.
• Commercial and risk aware.
• Creative thinker who enjoys problem solving.
• Self Organised

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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.

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The Deal
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Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

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 because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.