Associate Director - Corporate Tax

S&W; London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

S&W, a leading accountancy firm, is seeking a Business Tax Director to manage client portfolios and lead consultancy projects. The successful candidate will develop technical expertise and engage in business development, ensuring comprehensive advice and exceptional client service while fostering a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension contribution

Generous holiday package

Option to purchase additional holiday

Fully funded training towards professional qualifications

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Eye care support

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CA) and/or tax advisor (CTA).
• Significant corporate tax experience.
• Experience managing clients and people.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of clients and complex advisory cases.
• Business development and client relationship management.
• Train and manage junior staff.

Skills

Corporate tax experience

Managing people

Business development skills

Project management

Technical tax knowledge

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CA) and/or tax advisor (CTA)

Job description

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Company Description

At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations.

Company Description

At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations.

Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose—to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary.

Job Description

Business Tax

We provide a wide range of tax and consulting services to a broad range of companies, from housing associations to owner managed businesses.

Through establishing close relationships with our clients, we ensure that we are able to deliver the most comprehensive business tax advice, and also ensure we are aware of the key opportunities and risks faced by our clients.

Purpose of Role:

To manage your own portfolio of clients, working with Partners/Directors or alone on complicated consultancy and advisory projects. A significant part of the role will be business development of existing and new clients as well as potentially developing a specialist field of technical and/or sector knowledge and expertise.

Key responsibilities:

Client work

• Act as trusted adviser and engage with clients on wider commercial and strategic issues
• Manage portfolio of complex advisory and compliance cases
• Give exceptional client service, taking the lead in managing and developing client relationships
• Technically strong
• Identifying opportunities on client portfolio
  
  

Staff management and development

• Liaison with Partners
• Appraisals/monitor staff performance, acting as formal ADR managers for some staff
• On the job training for junior staff on a one-to-one basis
• Dealing with staff questions
• Work collaboratively with peers in team and across firm to ensure joined up approach
  
  

Practice development

• Involved in business development activities/profile raising locally
• Actively use network of established relationships to drive new business opportunities and cross referral of services
• Able to take advantage of marketing/PR opportunities
• Compliance
• Ensuring procedures are followed taking account of institute and HMRC guidance, where relevant
  
  

Personal Development (technical & Other)

• Internal and external seminars and courses
• Reading
• Internal meetings
  
  

Qualifications

Education/Qualifications:

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CA) and/or tax advisor (CTA)
  
  

Key Experience/Skills:

• Significant corporate tax experience gained within the profession and/or industry
• Technically capable tax adviser who is able to manage complex client work
• Demonstrable experience of managing people and clients
• Existing business development skills and appetite to grow business
• Project management experience
• Experience of dealing with senior stakeholders both internally and externally
  
  

Additional Information

As a colleague here at S&W you will have access to benefits that include

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependent)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave
• Fully funded training towards professional qualifications
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Eye care support
  
  

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workplace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Accounting

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