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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.
Everyone has experienced first-hand how technology can improve their everyday lives. Technology has changed the way we bank, pay for goods, track our physical activity and communicate. In a world where we have voice-assisted household tools such as Alexa in our homes, it makes sense that people are now asking; “Are we doing all we should be to leverage technology in our workplaces?”. As millennials enter management roles in firms, not only are they embracing digital advancement, they expect it.
The types of technologies available to us and the extent to which they are being used, are continually evolving. In the accounting field, data powered analytics offer valuable insights to those who can interpret the numbers, enabling us to focus our attention on transactions that pose a heightened risk of fraud or error. Analytics can be used to highlight inefficient processes, ineffective controls or unusual accounting practices through benchmarking against comparable peers. Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms now automate traditional, time-consuming tasks.
As a result, the face of accounting is changing. Professionals in business need to embrace continuous learning and build a learning plan beyond their typical CPD and this applies to all disciplines and industries. As automation takes on a bigger proportion of the work, firms are recruiting privacy and cybersecurity experts and computer system specialists. Not only do firms need to make sure that data is properly feeding into these tools, they must be responsive to the clients’ need of being comfortable with firms having their data and keeping it safe. Firms also need to adapt to the changing regulatory requirements. As regulatory bodies modernise their standards, they are introducing new requirements, to address the use of technological resources, both in the performance of work and the operation of quality management systems.
It’s clear that there needs to be a culture shift within firms, with each employee critically assessing how technology can help them. However, it’s not just about developing new skills, or hiring a new mix of employees. Firms, also need to think beyond new processes and services and spend equal time thinking about the people-side of implementation. Gartner, Inc. recognise that 2020 will be a pivotal year in AI related employment dynamics, with AI creating more jobs than it eliminates. Importantly, they note that for the greatest value, firms should focus on augmenting people with AI, and transform their culture to make it rapidly adaptable to AI-related opportunities or threats. These changes will go a long way towards technology improving our workplace.