Employment Tax specialist joins Grant Thornton Leicester

The Leicester office of leading financial and business adviser Grant Thornton UK LLP has appointed Zaheer Adam to its Employer Solutions team.

Since gaining his Master’s degree in Accounting and Finance in 2007, Zaheer has worked for PwC in Birmingham and Castle Donington. The early part of his career was spent focusing on Corporation Tax, but since 2010 he has specialised in Employment Taxes.

In the new role of Employee Solutions Manager Zaheer will advise Grant Thornton’s ambitious entrepreneurial and large corporate clients on this specialist tax arena and support developing the firms Central Region Employer Solutions practice.

Phil Brown, Leicester-based head of Grant Thornton’s Central Region Employer Solutions team, said: “Zaheer joins Grant Thornton at a time when many clients are looking to expand international operations which brings an increasing need for innovative and tax-compliant remuneration policies that help them to attract and retain the best talent.

“As a result we have invested in our Employer Solutions team with Zaheer’s appointment and will continue to seek additional resource as this area of our business grows even further.”

Grant Thornton’s Leicester office has approximately 120 staff providing business and financial advice across Corporate and Personal Tax, audit and assurance, employer solutions, corporate finance, and sustainability, to organisations across the East Midlands.