Corporate & Business Tax Manager

Mercer & Hole; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Pension

Life Assurance

Competitive salary

Job summary

Mercer & Hole, based in London, is seeking an experienced corporate tax adviser to manage a portfolio of clients and deliver a high-quality tax service. The role focuses on corporate and business tax for owner‑managed businesses and groups, with opportunities to advise on planning and compliance, and to develop the team.

You will build relationships across four offices, work with partners and tax directors, and contribute to business development and technical training while meeting deadlines and

Qualifications

• Experience in corporate tax advisory for owner‑managed businesses and groups.
• Strong client relationship and communication skills.
• Ability to identify tax planning opportunities and support partners.

Responsibilities

• Manage an allocated client portfolio within corporate and business tax.
• Advise on compliance obligations and HMRC relations.
• Support fee negotiation and WIP management.
• Contribute to team development and technical updates.
• Assist on business development across service lines.

Skills

Client relationships

Excellent communicator

Corporate tax experience

Alphatax proficient

Deadline driven

Business development

Team development

Relationship management

Education

ACA/CTA/ACCA

Job description

Department: Corporate and Business Tax (CBT)
Reporting to: CBT Partners
Benefits: 28 days holiday, Pension, Life Assurance, competitive salary
Hours: Open to full and part-time applicants

The Firm

Mercer & Hole is a well-established 28 partner practice with offices in London, St Albans, Milton Keynes & Rickmansworth. The firm has a prestigious client base throughout the UK and provides a highly professional service with a strong commitment to personal attention at all times.

The client base includes a significant number of owner-managed businesses, including partnerships, sole traders and private companies as well as subsidiaries of International groups. In addition the team also look after the business owners linked to the businesses in question.

The practice has identified a need for an experienced qualified tax adviser with relevant experience in the tax affairs of companies, businesses and their owners. The role will be based in London completing work for partners across all four offices of the firm. The team operate as one across all locations.

The Role

An exciting role joining a high performing team to be responsible for an allocated portfolio of clients and build relationships with them, ensuring they receive a quality tax service which is delivered efficiently and effectively.

The role will include

• Building relationships with a portfolio of clients in our corporate and business tax team
• Understanding their issues and advising on their compliance obligations whilst also helping them to manage their risk and relationship with HMRC
• Proactively talking time to consider tax planning opportunities which may be relevant to them, and working with the tax directors and partners to support delivery of this
• Being a part of developing the wider team, through technical education, soft skill development and on the job training. This will include appraising more junior members of the team including objective setting and having the ability to encourage and foster development of the team
• Negotiating and raising fees and being responsible for WIP management on your portfolio of clients.
• Contribution to the general management of the corporate and business tax department (12 strong in Milton Keynes, 20+ across the 4 offices). Providing input at regular management meetings.
• Assistance with the training of tax staff either on the job based or by way of participation in regular technical updates.
• Appraisal of junior staff with responsibility for development and performance.
• Assisting on queries arising from our international network; providing support to the Partners on practice development in terms of marketing campaigns and literature, networking, website support, contributing to the firm's blogs and tweets and raising awareness of topical issues.
• Identifying new opportunities within the client portfolio and working with the wider team to deliver additional services where appropriate.

Skills, Knowledge And Experience

• ACA and / or CTA qualified
• Ability to build excellent client relationships
• An excellent communicator and relationship builder within a team
• Extensive experience of working with a portfolio of clients to deliver on annual corporation tax reporting requirements
• Experience dealing with complex groups and related tax challenges
• Demonstrate broad and strong technical tax knowledge and experience. Mixed tax knowledge would be a benefit but corporate tax experience is priority for the role
• Ability to work within deadlines and deliver on agreed timescales
• Experience of identifying opportunities for business development on tax clients (and ideally across other service lines)
• Ideally proficient in Alphatax but training can be given
• This is a very varied role and provides a great opportunity for you to develop and progress within the firm.

We would consider both full and part-time applications.

The Person

The successful candidate will be a qualified CTA, ACA or ACCA and have post-qualification experience of working within a business tax department of an accountancy practice. A high standard of written and verbal communication is essential. Strong organisation and time management skills will be required for the role.

Being an experienced and flexible team worker, the strongest candidates will share Mercer & Hole's focused client service ethic and respond proactively and positively to the demands of a growing team.

Benefits

Salary will be dependent upon experience.

Mercer & Hole also offers a contributory pension scheme under salary sacrifice, life cover at 4 x salary, 28 days annual holiday and other benefits.

As part of our culture, we take the time to review each application individually to reflect our values.

Mercer & Hole is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Our people are our most valuable asset. We bring our life experiences, knowledge, creativity, and talents together at Mercer & Hole making it a unique place to work where all can safely thrive.