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.