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Business Risk Services
Our Business Risk Services team deliver practical and pragmatic solutions that support clients in growing and protecting the inherent value of their businesses.
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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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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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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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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 Ireland 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.
Are robots really taking our jobs?
09 Oct 2018More so now, than ever before, business leaders are operating in an environment of intense and sustained change. Change seems to be happening in all spheres of our lives, showing no signs of slowing down. Technology is probably one of the biggest changes affecting us all, no matter what industry we work in or what role we do.
Yes, the future is digital…. but, it will remain the case that both technology AND people matter. Digital advancements will happen with or without us, so it’s time to take a proactive approach to identify how we intend to thrive in the future world of work, the digital age, robots or no robots. But how?
We must transform our approach, moving beyond just automating existing processes. We need to completely define new ways of doing things and doing more together, then use the new technologies to help enable these new practices. Our customers must be at the centre of what we do, designing change from the outside in, with their needs front of mind.
We need a different mindset. An openness to change is the single greatest blocker of any transformation – so we need highly agile teams. To help build high agility, we should nurture a culture which is open to change and view change as an opportunity. We need a leadership team that is change-orientated, one who encourages delegated decision-making as standard. We must focus on talent development – taking the lead in the talent race by putting concerted effort in to attracting, retaining and developing our digital workforce, i.e. our workforce of the future.
Technology will drive change to traditional roles in the future - robotics will have an impact on individual jobs, there is no question about that. Rather than making the human race redundant though, the increased use of robotics will bring inevitable changes to the roles that we do. New skills will need to be developed; creativity and innovation, change orientation, a strategic mindset and data analysis, to name but a few. Our learning strategies will have to cater to the needs of a diverse workforce who are dispersed, global and multigenerational, and we can leverage new technologies such as mobile learning, gaming and virtual reality, to help us do this.
Some people view the exponential growth of technology as a big challenge, a ‘problem’ that needs sorting out. Remember though - these advancements have and will continue to make our lives better and easier in many ways. Technological advancement is here to stay, so business leaders must take advantage of the many opportunities provided, embrace it, and plan for it. If you don’t, your competitors will.