Senior Tax Advisor

About us:

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

About the role:

This role is a key position within our global tax function, working closely with the Heads of Tax to oversee the firm’s global tax affairs, with a particular focus on India tax compliance, Middle East tax compliance, permanent establishment risk management and withholding tax advisory.

You will be joining a globally diverse, collaborative Finance function that plays a central role in safeguarding the firm’s financial stability and driving value through data-led insight and financial stewardship. This is an excellent opportunity for a tax professional who enjoys a blend of hands-on compliance, complex advisory work and wide stakeholder engagement across a truly international platform.

Your main responsibilities will include:

India tax compliance and audit

• Support the firm’s Indian tax compliance, ensuring accurate and timely filing of returns, disclosures and other obligations.
• Liaise with local advisers to manage and meet compliance deadlines.
• Review and support on withholding tax queries relating to payments from clients, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.
• Support the Head of Tax on various tax audits.
• Provide analysis and advice on key Indian tax developments or changes in law that may impact the firm.

Permanent establishment (PE) risk management

• Support the Heads of Tax to monitor and manage the firm’s permanent establishment risks globally, working with the wider tax team to consider PE risks alongside other tax considerations.
• Assist in assessing whether the firm’s activities in different jurisdictions create potential PE risks and support the firm with business initiatives that involve PE risk.
• Provide guidance on mitigating PE risks, including advising on cross-border work activity.
• Collaborate with legal, regulatory and finance teams to ensure PE risks are identified early and addressed effectively.

Withholding tax

• Prepare and coordinate tax clearance applications (to receive interest payments at reduced rates of withholding tax).
• Liaise with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to request certificates of residence, certification of special forms and other ad hoc requirements.
• Anticipate and address withholding tax queries from the business and support in resolving queries with clients.

Middle East tax compliance

• Support the Head of Tax and Middle East Finance team on Middle East corporate tax, value added tax (VAT) and withholding tax compliance matters.

Other areas

• Review and support the firm’s compliance with the Corporate Criminal Offence legislation on failure to prevent tax evasion.
• Support the team on VAT compliance and advisory matters.

We are ideally looking for:

• Strong experience in corporate tax, VAT and withholding tax compliance and advisory.
• ACA or ACCA qualification.
• A tax qualification such as CTA or ADIT (desirable).
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with a keen eye for detail.
• Excellent Excel skills and the ability to manage and manipulate high volumes of data.
• The ability to work collaboratively and flexibly as part of a team and to contribute positively to team culture.
• Strong relationship management skills, delivering a responsive, high-quality service to partners, clients and Business Teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex tax topics and recommendations to a non-tax audience.

This role is based at the Linklaters London office with a hybrid working model available.

Our benefits:

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).