Corporate Tax Assistant Manager, Creative Sector

Saffrey LLP; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK accountancy firm in London is seeking a qualified tax professional for its Corporate Tax team. This role involves managing a diverse client portfolio and delivering corporate tax compliance and advisory services. Candidates should have strong UK tax skills and project management experience. The firm offers a hybrid working policy, excellent benefits, and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance cover

Flexible benefits

Discretionary bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in corporate tax with a focus on client management.
• Several years post-qualification experience.
• Desire to develop niche expertise in film, TV, or video games sector.

Responsibilities

• Manage tax compliance processes for diverse clients.
• Conduct technical research and address client queries.
• Identify advisory opportunities within client portfolio.
• Supervise and mentor junior team members.

Skills

Strong UK tax technical skills

Project management skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work collaboratively

Coaching and mentoring skills

Education

ACA/CTA qualified

Job description

Overview

Based in our London Corporate Tax team, the successful candidate will be responsible for managing a diverse client portfolio, encompassing the delivery of both corporate tax compliance and advisory services. This is a challenging and interesting client-facing role, with exposure to a range of both UK and international clients. This is a unique opportunity to join the fast-growing tax group that handles the corporate tax aspects of the firm’s Film, Television, and video game clients. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing corporate tax advisory and compliance engagements.

Our clients include major Hollywood studios and streaming networks, as well as many independent film and television production companies in the US and UK. We also work with entities ancillary to film and television production, such as film financiers, visual effects and post-production houses, and other service providers. We also work with a number of video game developers ranging from small independents to large multi-national studios.

The Responsibilities

• Responsible for the efficient delivery of the tax compliance process including tax accounting.
• Detailed technical research and responding to ad-hoc technical queries from clients and other teams.
• Helping to identify advisory opportunities within the allocated client portfolio.
• Supervising, mentoring, and reviewing the work of junior team members.
• Advising on a range of technical areas such as complex capital allowances claims, R&D tax relief, transfer pricing, Substantial Shareholdings Exemption, Controlled Foreign Companies, Corporate Interest Restriction, Withholding Tax and Double Taxation Relief, with the support of specialist colleagues where required.

For those keen to develop specialist expertise, there is scope to develop a niche in particular industry sectors or technical areas, and to work with the creative sector arm of the team, who advise many of the world’s largest film, TV and video games companies. There will also be opportunities to work on a number of one-off advisory projects across an array of differing tax specialisms.

The Team

The Film & TV group is one of the leading advisors to this sector and holds a wide client list encompassing some of the world’s largest and most successful Film, TV, Video Game and Sports companies.

You will sit within an industry focused team as part of a wider national Corporate Tax team, comprising 9 Tax Partners and over 110 tax professionals.

You

Experience of working with clients in the F&TV Sector is not essential; however, an interest in this industry is preferable. The role would suit an ACA/CTA qualified individual with several years post-qualification experience in corporate tax.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Strong UK tax technical skills;
• Ability to analyse tax technical queries and provide robust advice and solutions;
• Project management skills, with the ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines and monitor budgets;
• Responsibility for the delivery and quality of work;
• Excellent communication skills;
• A clear client focus with a commitment to building strong client relationships;
• Ability to work collaboratively in different teams;
• Coaching and mentoring skills to develop other team members.

The firm will provide training and support to help develop the successful candidate’s specialist knowledge and capabilities. For the right individual, there is scope to progress quickly within the team.

Reward and Benefits

• A 35 hour working week with a hybrid working policy with the flexibility to work from home for up to three days per week (core hours 10-4).
• Excellent benefits including contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance cover and flexible benefits and family-friendly policies.
• Eligibility for the firm’s Profit-Sharing Plan, paid in December.
• Eligibility for the discretionary bonus scheme.

About us

Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing market-leading accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax and VAT services. Founded in 1855, we are the UK’s 15th largest accountancy firm.

When you work with us at Saffery, you work with people who know your name, not just a job title. We’re a place shaped by friendly, intelligent people who are individually excellent and collectively exceptional. We’re committed to our clients, but also to our greatest asset – our people.

As a proud member of Nexia, a leading, international network of independent accounting and consulting firms, we’ve got access to local insight on a global scale.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Equality, diversity and inclusion is a top priority for us. With our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we are building on our positive work culture and implementing initiatives to improve diversity and strengthen our equitable culture of inclusion, led from the top.

We hope you will apply to us, whatever your background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability or neurodivergence, because individual differences equal collective strength. Built on values of excellence, integrity, enthusiasm and collegiality, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.