Legal Tax Disputes Director

Our Legal Tax Disputes practice offers clients an end-to-end tax disputes service integrated into PwC's wider tax practice, covering enquiries, investigations, negotiated settlements and court proceedings. We are recruiting a Legal Tax Disputes Director to strengthen senior capacity in the practice, with a particular focus on corporate tax disputes. This is an opportunity to take a leading role in complex matters, support key client relationships and help shape the practice's longer-term growth. The role requires a current practising certificate. What your days will look like

• Take day-to-day conduct of complex HMRC investigations, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, supporting the network leadership.
• Help develop the market for direct taxes legal disputes work and support the go-to-market plan with Tax, Legal and relevant sector and specialist teams.
• Enhance key client relationships and LPP-dependent matters through close coordination with the legal partners.
• Mentor more junior members of the team, contributing to capability building across the practice.
• Drive business development and support the practice's longer-term growth ambitions.
  
  You are a qualified solicitor or barrister with a current practising certificate.
• You have significant experience of conducting complex HMRC investigations, tax litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
• You have strong technical knowledge of UK direct tax, particularly corporation tax.
• You have a proven track record of building and maintaining client relationships and contributing to business development.
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, strategic advice at a senior level.
• You have the ability to mentor and develop junior team members.
  
  In order to be the leading professional services firm it's important we have the right values, culture and behaviours embedded throughout our organisation, so our work reflects our purpose and we can successfully deliver our strategy.
Our values set the expectations for the way we interact with each other, our clients, and in the communities in which we operate. These values, and the behaviours that they require from us, are relevant to all our people regardless of grade. They support a culture that empowers our people to be the best they can be, through challenging experiences and encouraging our people to speak up to make the firm a better place. We want all our people to understand and embrace the culture and personally feel part of the legacy this will create for our future employees. We're a hugely diverse business, bound together by our purpose - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and the communities in which we operate. We believe we can make the biggest impact when our purpose is embedded within everything we do.