Corporate Tax Manager

Saffery; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK accountancy firm is seeking a qualified professional to join their Corporate Tax team. The role involves managing a diverse client portfolio, delivering tax compliance, and providing advisory services. Candidates should have strong UK tax technical skills and experience in corporation tax, along with excellent communication and project management abilities. Hybrid working options are available, along with competitive benefits and a commitment to equality and inclusion.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance cover

Flexible benefits and family friendly policies

Eligibility for discretionary bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Several years' post-qualification experience in corporation tax.
• Ability to analyse tax technical queries and provide robust advice.
• Experience in supervising and mentoring junior members.

Responsibilities

• Manage the tax compliance process including tax accounting.
• Conduct detailed technical research and address client queries.
• Identify and deliver advisory opportunities for clients.

Skills

Strong UK tax technical skills

Communication skills

Project management skills

Client relationship management

Coaching and mentoring skills

Education

Qualified individual (ACA/ACCA/CTA)

Job description

Overview

The role: The successful candidate will be part of Saffery's Corporate Tax team, 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, which will include exposure to a range of both UK and international clients.

Responsibilities

Frequently dealing with challenging technical issues, the candidate can expect the role to encompass the following areas amongst others:

• Responsibility 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 and deliver 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; and
• Support in stand-alone tax advisory projects, including structuring acquisitions and disposals, transaction support and due diligence

The team

Our Corporate Tax team spans our 9 office locations and comprises 7 partners and over 100 professionals. The Corporate Tax teams deal with a large portfolio of companies operating in a variety of sectors, including manufacturing, technology, retail, recruitment, financial services, hospitality and property. These clients range from smaller owner-managed businesses to large and complex listed groups, as well as charities and not for profit organisations.

You

The role would suit a qualified individual (for example ACA/ACCA/CTA) with several years post qualification experience in corporation 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; and
• Coaching and mentoring skills to develop other team members

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 (our core hours are 10-4);
• Excellent benefits including; contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance cover and great flexible benefits and family friendly policies;
• Eligibility for the firm's Profit-Sharing Plan. Paid in December; and
• 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.