Jobs at Grant Thornton UK

Manages corporate finance advisory assignments and transactions, including information memorandums, financial modeling, valuation analysis, deal structuring, risk management, and client relationships. Leads and coaches team members, coordinates transaction stakeholders, supports business development, develops new opportunities, and identifies cross-selling possibilities. The role focuses on technology and media sector transactions and requires strong financial, analytical, communication, and project management skills.

The Financial Reporting Advisory Manager delivers technical accounting advice across GAAP conversions, complex financial statements, M&A reporting, new accounting standards, restructurings, and training. The role manages client projects, budgets, timelines, risk, and project teams; coaches colleagues; develops client relationships; and supports departmental strategy, commercial objectives, and team training initiatives.

Leads Sale and Purchase Agreement advisory engagements for corporate, private equity, and investor clients. Oversees completion mechanism analysis, including net debt, working capital, locked box, and completion accounts calculations. Reviews and negotiates financial SPA provisions, manages client relationships and junior staff, presents recommendations, controls budgets and fees, and supports business development. Requires a professional accounting qualification and post-qualification transaction advisory experience.

Leads general insurance actuarial consulting projects, manages client delivery, oversees deadlines and quality, develops junior team members, researches technical topics, and supports business development. Requires qualification as an actuary and UK professional services experience, with desirable expertise in actuarial modelling, capital, reserving, or pricing.

Deliver live incident containment and recovery, security assessments, hardening, and managed security solution implementations for clients. Review and secure cloud, identity, firewall, endpoint, and network environments; design Zero Trust, SASE, segmentation, conditional access, and DLP solutions; preserve evidence and support forensic teams; and produce security architecture, deployment, and operational documentation.

Manage public-sector accounting and financial reporting engagements for NHS trusts, local authorities, and other public bodies. Responsibilities include resolving complex IFRS matters, implementing accounting standards, reviewing and preparing financial reports, supporting financial management and governance, overseeing project delivery and budgets, onboarding clients, developing relationships, contributing to business development, and coaching junior colleagues.

Manages a portfolio of media and entertainment clients, delivering UK corporation tax compliance, tax advisory, Creative Industry Tax Relief claims, transactions, reorganisations, and project financing support. Serves as the primary client contact, reviews work, supervises and coaches junior staff, manages deadlines, contributes to business development, and supports pitches and proposals.

Leads transaction advisory engagements, including financial due diligence for buy-side and sell-side transactions. Responsibilities include originating business, managing senior client relationships, assessing transaction risks, overseeing reports, budgets, fees and profitability, presenting findings, and coaching managers. Requires strong commercial judgment, extensive report-writing experience, client-facing expertise, and professional accountancy qualifications.

Leads technology consulting engagements across technology strategy, operating models, digital transformation, systems selection, M&A technology due diligence, and post-deal integration or separation planning. Analyzes technology estates, evaluates platforms and vendors, develops recommendations and transformation roadmaps, supports workshops and client relationships, and contributes to proposals and practice development.

Manages commercial audit engagements from planning through completion, serving as the primary client contact. Applies ISA, UK GAAP, and IFRS knowledge, evaluates complex risks, develops audit strategies, manages budgets and timelines, reviews financial statements, and ensures regulatory compliance. Leads and develops audit teams, builds client relationships, supports business development, identifies cross-service opportunities, consults specialists on high-risk matters, and maintains quality, risk management, and professional development standards.

Owns complex and high-risk audit engagements, setting strategy, managing technical and client escalations, portfolio profitability, resourcing, audit quality, and senior relationships. Leads recruitment, coaching, and performance management for managers and assistant managers. Supports business development through proposals, pitches, and networking, while advising clients on regulatory changes and maintaining firm risk and quality standards.

Leads finance consulting projects that improve clients’ finance functions, including reporting, month-end close, process improvement, finance transformation, and operating model redesign. Manages project teams, budgets, timelines, quality, compliance, and risk while communicating with CFOs, finance directors, and private equity stakeholders. Builds client and internal networks, supports business development, identifies root causes, develops practical solutions, and contributes to practice development initiatives.

Leads corporate tax compliance, provision, advisory, restructuring, transaction support, and Creative Industry Tax Relief claims for media and entertainment clients. Manages complex tax engagements, client relationships, audit-of-tax work, team development, portfolio financial performance, risk management, business development, and industry thought leadership. Advises on international expansion, rights migration, sell-side transactions, tax diligence, and Enterprise Investment Scheme matters.

Leads indirect tax client engagements, including scoping, delivery, billing, technical VAT advice, quality review, risk management, and financial oversight. Advises diverse clients on complex VAT legislation, case law, and compliance matters while guiding junior staff, managing client relationships, and supporting business development and project delivery.

Leads go-to-market planning and execution for TMT and emerging sectors. The role translates strategy into actionable plans, coordinates campaigns with commercial specialists, maintains accurate Dynamics CRM pipeline data, and uses AI tools to improve campaign delivery, reporting, and pipeline management. It requires commercial experience in business development, marketing, or a related function, strong stakeholder communication, and the ability to execute reliably in a matrixed organization.

Leads financial services transaction tax engagements, including tax structuring advice, buy-side and sell-side due diligence, acquisition analysis, reporting, and post-deal support. Manages client relationships, project budgets, business development proposals, technical tax research, team development, and multiple deliverables. Advises private equity, corporate, banking, asset management, insurance, and fintech clients throughout the deal lifecycle.

Manages financial crime consulting assignments, including client relationship management, report drafting and review, risk assessments, remediation, investigations, regulatory breach responses, team delegation, budgeting, mentoring, and business development. Maintains technical knowledge of UK AML, anti-bribery, sanctions, terrorist financing, and fraud regulations while delivering client work under Partner or Director supervision.

Provide commercial legal support by drafting and negotiating client and supplier contracts, advising cross-functionally on contracting, data and IP issues, delivering training, and helping leverage AI tools while managing risk.

Manages end-to-end external audit engagements for public interest clients, ensuring audit quality, regulatory compliance, technical accuracy, and timely delivery. Leads audit strategy, risk assessment, reporting, client and Audit Committee relationships, team coaching, budget management, and fee discussions. The role also supports practice growth across Birmingham and the Midlands while maintaining independence, ethical standards, and professional competence.

Leads major public interest audit engagements across a portfolio, owning audit quality, technical compliance, client relationships, budgets, profitability, business development, and people leadership. The role oversees complex audit strategies, presents findings to Audit Committees, manages senior finance stakeholders, develops managers, supports resource planning, negotiates fees, and grows the Birmingham and Midlands audit practice.