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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.
Social Distancing and Staff Engagement
12 May 2020Social Distancing. An expression that none of us had even considered before a few short weeks ago, and yet now it has become the central tenet of all of our lives. Family relationships and friendships are now conducted remotely, and no matter how hard we try, the quality of our virtual engagement with each other will undoubtedly be lesser.
As leaders, we are also rapidly having to adjust to new ways of working and how we lead our teams. In this new reality what can we do to keep our people engaged when face to face interaction is either severely curtailed, or not happening at all?
Keep managing performance. Work together with your team members to agree new goals, recognising the new working environment. Make sure that you continue to stretch people, but also ensure that the goals you agree are still realistic and achievable.
One to one meetings. Make sure that your regular meetings with your people still happen, or if you haven’t been doing them, take this opportunity to get started. Structure the meetings and make sure they aren’t all about performance. Make time on the agenda to discuss your peoples’ development, and also if you feel able to, talk about their wellbeing – emotional, physical and financial. A simple “how are you doing?” can mean a lot. Your team will welcome the opportunity to spend time with you and learn from you.
Use spare capacity as an opportunity. If you are able to, financially invest in your staff to help them attain qualifications or accreditations that will be valuable to the business. If that’s not possible, identify free online learning resources to help build the capability of your team for when things get better.
Virtual team meetings. Don’t use the difficult working environment as an excuse to let meetings drop out of the schedule. Use technology effectively to regularly connect your people together and ensure they continue to have a shared purpose.
Have fun. To a greater or lesser extent your people will be missing the connections and social belonging that comes from being in the workplace and being part of a team. Organise virtual quizzes, virtual team drinks and all of the other social activities you normally do, as best you can. If you’re not great at that kind of thing, find someone in your team who is (every team has one) and set them loose. They’ll love the challenge!
This will undoubtedly be the most challenging period most of us will face in our working lives. You can either succumb to it and allow everything to become too difficult, or use the opportunity to get your team fit to ‘burst out of the starting blocks’ when the race gets started again.