I am a senior manager in Corporate Tax at CP. I work with loads of great clients ranging from entrepreneur's and owner managed businesses to privately funded businesses to large multinationals and Plc's. No day is ever the same, but my responsibilities include: - Understanding my client’s motivations and drivers to ensure I can provide tailored proactive and relevant advice. - Working closely with my associates overseas to provide joint international advice to our clients including international structuring and commercial and compliant transfer pricing. - Assisting with large tax advisory projects including reviews of permanent establishments and tax residency, CFC reviews, diverted profits tax review, anti-hybrids reviews, group rationalisations, international reorganisations and migration. - Assisting clients with HMRC enquiries. - Helping my clients ensure they are meeting their compliance obligations both in the UK and overseas and that they are paying the right amount of tax. - Making sure my clients are aware of all tax reliefs available to them e.g. R&D, Capital allowances and linking in with my specialist colleagues to help them claim the reliefs. - Line managing talented members of the team and ensuring all our trainees get the support and training they need. - Keeping my clients up to date on developments in tax legislation relevant to them. - Having fun with my fellow tax geeks along the way.

At KPMG LLP I managed a wide portfolio of clients across a number of industry sectors.Responsibilities included:• Taking responsibility for managing a portfolio of clients including listed companies, large multinationals, private equity businesses and owner managed businesses. • Developing and maintaining the relationship with those clients, undertaking the final review of tax compliance and providing proactive advice. • Assisting with transfer pricing projects including thin capitalisation reviews and management service reviews. • Assisting with large tax advisory projects including group rationalisations and reorganisations, refinancing, tax due diligence and health checks, assistance with HRMC enquiries and CRM meetings, running SAO workshops and assistance with producing tax strategies and tax risk registers. • Identifying potential tax opportunities and facilitating introductions to appropriate specialists to maximise value for clients. • Assisting partners in targeting activity including the preparation of formal proposal documents and contributing to pitch discussions for targets. • Undertaking tax audits (both IFRS and US GAAP) for group reporting and statutory reporting groups. • Supervision and coaching of junior staff including being directly responsible for the performance management of three graduates.Other responsibilities• I was head of the East Midlands Corporate Responsibility committee. • I was chair of the East Midlands tax ‘fun’ committee and arrange social events for the tax department. • I started a focus group with the junior staff members in order to try to maximise retention, team spirit and job satisfaction.

During my time at Ernst & Young LLP I worked on a variety of client accounts (mainly large international groups) across the tax compliance, tax advisory and tax audit fields. Responsibilities included:• Maintaining relationships with client contacts and acting as a member of the team on a number of large clients. This involved managing UK corporation tax affairs, delivering corporate tax compliance and ad hoc advisory work to international groups and liaising with HMRC on behalf of clients. • Taking de facto responsibility for managing the compliance process for smaller clients, including preparation and review of tax computations and tax accounting disclosures, ensuring applicable tax legislation and accounting standards are adhered to (subject to appropriate internal review).• Undertaking tax audits (both UK GAAP and IFRS) for group reporting and statutory reporting groups. • Transfer pricing projects, including assisting with the drafting and negotation of ATCA's and the preparation of both masterfile and country file documentation• Assisting with other adhoc advisory work (demerger transactions, substantial shareholding exemption review, the corporation tax obligations of setting up a company in the UK).• Supervision and development of junior staff and building strong relationships with colleagues in other departments, in particular Audit. • Other responsibilities included member of the graduate recruitment team, member of the Nottingham office corporate responsibility team and organising tax socials.

Responsibilities included: • Entering all invoices from the bank statements into our internal system and maintaining a spreadsheet to ensure the accounts balanced. • Liaising with credit control in order to solve their queries and ensure money was allocated to customers correctly. • Training and supervising two permanent members of staff and creating a training guide for future new starters