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Corporate Finance and Deal Advisory
We offer a dedicated team of experienced individuals with a focus on successfully executing transactions for corporates and financial institutions. We offer an integrated approach, with our corporate finance specialists working seamlessly with tax and other specialists to ensure that every angle is covered.
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Digital Risk
Grant Thornton offers solutions to the digital risk issues you are sure to face. Our skilled and experienced security team can helping by advising and consulting, giving you peace of mind, clear value for money and an enhanced ability to react to attacks.
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Technology Consulting
Motivating and assisting our clients to pursue, maintain and secure the benefits of digital solutions is at the core of our Digital Transformation teams' agenda and goals. We work with business leaders to deliver efficient digital strategies and operating models that provide new or enhanced capabilities.
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Economic Advisory
Our all-island Economics Advisory team combines expertise in economics and business with a wealth of experience across the public and private sectors.
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Forensic Accounting
We have a different way of doing business by delivering real insight through a combination of technical rigour, commercial experience and intuitive judgment. We take pride in delivering responsive and tailored solutions to all our clients, capitalising on the wealth of experience housed within our Belfast and wider Forensics team
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People and Change Consulting
The Grant Thornton People & Change Consulting practice works with clients on these issues as well as on all aspects of how they attract, retain, engage develop, deploy and lead their people.
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Restructuring
We work with a wide variety of clients and stakeholders such as high street banks, private equity funds, directors, government agencies and creditors to implement solutions which provide the best possible outcomes.
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Corporate and International Tax
Northern Ireland businesses face further challenges as they operate in the only part of the UK that has a land border with a country offering a lower tax rate.
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Employer Solutions
Our team specialises in remuneration and incentive planning and works closely with employers, shareholders and employees to ensure that business strategies are aligned and goals achieved in the most tax efficient, cost-effective manner.
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Entrepreneur and Private Client Taxes
Our team of experienced advisors are on hand to guide you through any decision or transaction ranging from the establishment of new business ventures, to realising value on exit, to succession planning and providing for loved ones.
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Global Mobility Services
Grant Thornton offer a different approach to managing global mobility. We have brought together specialists from our tax, global payroll, people and change and financial accounting teams across Ireland and Northern Ireland, while drawing on the knowledge and insights of our global network of over 143 offices of mobility professionals to provide you with a holistic approach to managing global mobility.
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Outsourced Payroll
Our outsourced service provides valued service to over 150 separate PAYE schemes. These ranging from 1 to 1000 employees, working for micro, SME and global employers. The service is supported by the integrated network of tax and global mobility teams and the wider Grant Thornton network delivering a seamless service. Experienced staff deliver a personal service built around your business needs.
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Tax Disputes and Investigations
Our Tax Disputes and Investigation team is made up of tax experts and former HMRC investigators who have years of experience in dealing with a variety of tax investigations. Our expertise and insight can guide you through all interactions, keeping your cost at a minimum while allowing you to continue with the day to day running of your business.
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VAT and Indirect Taxes
At Grant Thornton (NI) LLP, our team helps Northern Ireland businesses manage their UK and global indirect tax risks which, as transactional taxes, can quickly become big liabilities.
In an era of intense global competition, securing a graduate position is a big challenge. However, there is one way for graduates to make themselves stand out from their peers, and that is by doing an internship. Employers now tend to focus their recruitment efforts on graduates who have undertaken at least one internship, as they view these candidates as having displayed the initiative and commitment to their chosen career that the employer is looking for.
From an employer’s perspective, an internship is a work placement or temporary job lasting anything from a week to a year. It can be paid or unpaid and usually has more focus on training than a normal day job. It is clear that internships are now invaluable to both employers and graduates.
Large corporate employers are now using their intern programmes as their key recruitment tool, with job offers made as a priority to those graduates who impress during their placement. Indeed the goal of some savvy students is to gain enough relevant work experience and intern placements in their initial years at university to enable them to get on the intern programme run by their employer of choice in the summer before their final year.
From a student’s perspective, gaining an internship in multiple workplaces has several advantages, (not only if it is required from your current education pathway). For some it can help secure their chosen job with their chosen employer. However, not everyone is as certain from an early stage what career they wish to follow. The diverse experience that internships can provide in working in different industries or for different companies / organisations can be invaluable for deciding on your final career path. Gaining an internship may also help employees who are looking for an opportunity to switch to a career that is not relevant to their current degree.
There are some things to consider when designing an intern programme. Employers should avoid choosing students solely from larger universities, and potentially missing out on good graduates from smaller universities. Another consideration is the time commitment for the employer, to ensure they put a programme in place that has a proper structure, including a mentoring system, and provides an offering to the interns that is meaningful and challenging. This process must be regularly reviewed, monitored, and assessed.
However, internships still appears to be a ‘win win’ situation for both employers and students. There is no doubt that the advantages to employers of having a programme in place is being rewarded with enthusiastic, experienced graduates who are well-informed and well-equipped to deal with a professional working environment. It is an excellent way to see first-hand a potential employee’s true qualities, and where they would be best placed (if at all) within the organisation.
Students also have the opportunity to accrue the skills and network to secure a good job and potentially see if their career choice is the one for them. In theory students have the ability to study what they love and intern in what they want to do. It is the ideal way to kick-start their training towards their long- term career. As they say, ‘an expert in anything was once a beginner’, and being able to guide a student on their career path is an important role for employers to embrace.