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Grant Thornton is seeking expressions of interest from tax professionals at all career levels for its Belfast team. Opportunities may span UK tax disciplines and involve advising entrepreneurial businesses and multinational groups, including complex cross-border engagements. Candidates are invited to submit their CVs for consideration against current or future roles and may be contacted for an informal discussion about their experience, ambitions, and potential fit.

Graduate trainee supporting financial statement audits across corporate, financial services, and global statutory engagements. Responsibilities include reviewing financial records and controls, analyzing financial data and audit risks, preparing working papers, performing substantive testing, participating in stock counts, identifying control weaknesses, gathering client information, and preparing reports. The role includes structured ACA training, mentoring, study support, and exposure to diverse industries.

Leads corporate finance and deal advisory engagements, including M&A mandates, due diligence, valuations, fundraising support, financial modeling, forecasting, and client reporting. Manages project delivery, coordinates legal, tax, banking, and other advisers, presents recommendations, mentors junior staff, and contributes to business development and proposal preparation.

Leads complex client projects and transformation programmes across financial services, digital transformation, customer experience, and operational excellence. Responsibilities include project planning, governance, documentation, cross-functional team leadership, customer journey redesign, stakeholder engagement, data-informed improvement, workshops, and business development. The role requires managing enterprise-wide initiatives, advising clients on delivery frameworks, and developing proposals and thought leadership.

Leads client HR and organizational change consulting engagements, including operating model design, workforce planning, organizational transformation, change management, stakeholder engagement, workshops, analysis, recommendations, and project delivery. Responsibilities include managing workplans, teams, project finances, deliverables, client relationships, proposals, business development, methodologies, and thought leadership initiatives.

Graduate trainee role within Grant Thornton’s Tax team, supporting tax compliance, returns, legislative research, advisory projects, international tax matters, transactions, restructuring, financial analysis, reports, and client engagements. The programme provides structured training, mentoring, professional qualification support, study leave, and exposure to corporate, international, VAT, private client, and employer tax services.

Leads audit engagements from planning through completion, managing budgets, timelines, audit strategies, risk assessments, financial statement reviews, and regulatory compliance. Manages and develops audit teams, maintains client relationships, resolves technical issues, supports business development, and contributes to audit practice growth. Requires a qualified accountant with substantial audit experience, strong technical knowledge, commercial awareness, and effective organizational and communication skills.

Leads complex organizational and technology-enabled transformation programs, developing change strategies, stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, training, adoption, and governance plans. Advises and coaches senior client leaders, manages resistance, facilitates workshops, leads multidisciplinary teams, and builds client relationships. The role also contributes to consulting practice growth through proposition development, methodology refinement, thought leadership, and knowledge sharing.

Leads complex transaction tax advisory engagements for large corporates, multinational groups, and private equity-backed businesses. Responsibilities include tax due diligence, structuring, transaction support, client relationship management, project and engagement economics, technical review, business development, risk management, and mentoring junior staff. The role supports acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, fundraisings, management buyouts, refinancing, and post-deal integration across domestic and international markets.

Leads employer tax advisory and compliance engagements, transaction-related employment tax work, client relationships, business development, engagement economics, quality and risk management. Advises clients on employment taxes, reward, payroll and workforce matters, supports tax due diligence and transaction structuring, and collaborates across professional service teams. The role also mentors junior staff, develops managers, and contributes to the growth of the Employer Solutions and wider Tax practice.