Location: Leytonstone House, 3 Hanbury Drive, Leytonstone, London E11 1GA
Salary: Competitive London based market rate
What is the role?
The tax department in our Leytonstone office is 22 strong, headed by three tax partners, with nine managers including two advisory managers providing a strong technical foundation for the team.
We are looking for a mixed tax professional to join the team as a tax advisory manager/senior manager (dependant on experience), who will support the partners in delivering complex tax advice and projects.
The tax advisory manager role will include:
Working with the tax and general partners on interesting and complex mixed tax advisory issues for our wide-ranging client base, including tax planning on projects, preparing advice letters and reports – taking ownership of a project from start to finish.
Liaising with clients to manage advisory projects.
Working with our corporate finance specialist to support the tax analysis of corporate transactions.
Delegating and overseeing preparation of transaction documents.
Dealing with technical responses to HMRC enquiries.
Sharing knowledge, supporting and training the tax team.
Team management, conducting interviews and appraisals.
Working with the tax partners and manager group to push forward the tax department’s growth and development.
The role will have involvement across a wide variety of advisory projects such as corporate restructuring, IHT planning, property transactions, sales/acquisitions, SEIS/EIS, employee incentivisation, trusts, international aspects and more.
This position is a client facing role, with excellent career prospects in a young and dynamic partnership with ambitious growth plans.
The Successful Applicant
For this tax advisory manager role, you will need to have a strong and extensive technical knowledge across all areas of tax including corporate tax, personal tax and IHT/Trust tax, including international aspects. You should have a relevant tax qualification e.g. CTA, although other qualifications and QBE candidates will also be considered if you have appropriate tax experience. Ideally, your experience will have been gained with a Top 100 accountancy firm.
Strong communication skills, both spoken and written, are vital as this is a role involving regular interaction with colleagues and clients. You will need to produce high quality written reports, communicating technical tax concepts clearly and concisely. You should have a client-focussed attitude and desire to deliver a gold-star service to our client base.
You should have good IT skills including confidence with using Word and Excel.
