Assistant Tax Manager

Federated Hermes; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment management firm is seeking a Tax Manager to oversee UK and international tax matters. The role involves ensuring compliance with tax obligations, providing strategic tax advice, and working closely with various business units. The ideal candidate will be a part-qualified tax professional with strong analytical skills and the ability to build effective relationships. This position offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Part Qualified or recently Qualified Tax Professional.
• Knowledge of Excel and Alphatax.

Responsibilities

• Manage UK and international tax matters.
• Ensure timely submission of tax returns.
• Provide tax-related advice to the business.

Skills

Team Player

Deadline Management

Results Focused

Education

Degree Level Education

Tools

Excel

Alphatax

Job description

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Federated Hermes, Inc. is a global leader in active, responsible investment management, with $839.8 billion in assets under management, as of March 31st, 2025. We deliver investment solutions that help investors target a broad range of outcomes and provide equity, fixed-income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset, and liquidity management strategies to more than 11,000 institutions and intermediaries worldwide.

Our clients include corporations, government entities, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, banks, and broker/dealers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Federated Hermes has more than 2,000 employees in London, New York and offices worldwide. For more information, visit FederatedHermes.com

Main Function of the role:

This role reports into the Federated Hermes Limited Head of Tax, with responsibility for managing the Group’s UK and international (non-US) tax matters, providing advice across the business, assisting in maintaining a robust controls environment and ensuring Federated Hermes is compliant with all statutory tax requirements (excluding payroll taxes).

Key task and responsibilities:

• Monitoring the statutory tax obligations and reporting requirements for the Real Estate funds to ensure submission of accurate and timely tax returns (e.g. VAT, income tax , CIS etc.) to the relevant Tax Authorities through liaison with outsourced service providers. Ensuring that relevant tax payments are made accurately and on time.
• Dealing with tax authority enquiries and liaising with external advisors where necessary.
• Oversight of compilation of capital allowance reports
• Supporting business needs: assistance with Real Estate deals, liaison with lawyers and provision of relevant tax documents and information, review of VAT and tax clauses of disposal and acquisition agreements.

HR / Payroll matters

• Ensure that Employment Related Security filings and PAYE settlement agreements are filed annually for relevant entities.
• Ensure IR35 legislation is followed and our end user risk is monitored on an ongoing basis.
• Advise from time to time on employee taxes when requested by HR.

Ad hoc tax work

• Tax related advice to the Federated Hermes Group and its business units and, where relevant to Hermes funds. In addition, manage the tax relationship with third party advisers and working with the Head of Tax to identify when external tax advice is required.

Other responsibilities

• Making suggestions to the Head of Tax to improve operational effectiveness and consistency through process, technology etc
• Working within the broader finance team to deliver high quality outputs in the most effective ways.
• Keeping up to date with all relevant areas of tax law and practice. Raise tax knowledge and awareness amongst all relevant employees of Federated Hermes.
• Consideration of fees appropriate for external advice and making recommendations to the Head of Tax.
• Establishing credibility with business units and increasing visibility and use of the tax team group wide

Desired Experience Required:

• Part Qualified (or recently Qualified) Tax Professional

Minimum knowledge & experience required

• Knowledge of Excel and Alphatax
• Educated to Degree level

Candidate Profile:

• The ability to build effective working relationships/ team player
• Ability to meet deadlines and results focused
• Consistently delivers results

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Flexible Working

We believe in genuine equality of opportunity, fairness, and respect for all applicants and aim to ensure that no current or prospective employee is subject to discrimination or treated less favourably on the basis of their disability, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sex, or sexual orientation, or disability.We understand that applicants may have different needs and expectations related to their working arrangements and are committed to a discussion on flexible working.

Please raise these with your Recruitment contact to discuss what type of arrangements can work for you and the role for which you are applying.We welcome applications from all eligible candidates, and we particularly encourage applications from qualified candidates who identify as women and/or are from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the financial services sector, particularly at senior levels.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and participate in the “Offer of Interview” scheme, intended to actively encourage applications from people with a disability or long-term condition and offer an interview to those who meet the minimum criteria set out within this job description. You will need to let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme by contacting Jessica Sheehan at [e-mail] or [phone]. You do not need to share details of your disability or long-term condition.

If you would benefit from alternative methods of applying or for workplace adjustments during the recruitment process, please also let us know by contacting Jessica Sheehan at [e-mail] or [phone] to discuss the support you need.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing

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