Corporate Tax Manager

Saffery Llp; England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a qualified individual to join their Corporate Tax team. The successful candidate will manage a diverse client portfolio while delivering corporate tax compliance and advisory services. Responsibilities include supervising junior staff, conducting technical research, and providing robust client solutions. This role offers a flexible hybrid working policy with excellent benefits, including a contributory pension and profit-sharing plan.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Flexible family-friendly benefits

Eligibility for profit-sharing plan

Discretionary bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Qualified individual with several years of post-qualification experience in corporation tax.
• Ability to manage deadlines and monitor budgets.
• Clear client focus and commitment to building strong relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage a diverse client portfolio delivering corporate tax compliance and advisory services.
• Supervise and mentor junior team members.
• Conduct detailed technical research and respond to client queries.

Skills

Strong UK tax technical skills

Ability to analyse tax technical queries and provide robust advice

Project management skills

Excellent communication skills

Coaching and mentoring skills

Education

ACA/ACCA/CTA qualification

Job description

Role Overview

The successful candidate will be part of Saffery's Corporate Tax team, responsible for managing a diverse client portfolio, including the delivery of corporate tax compliance and advisory services. This is a challenging and client-facing role, with exposure to UK and international clients.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications & Experience

We live by our potential meets personal mantra and understand that everyone has different requirements in terms of their ideal portfolio. Working with your line manager, we will develop a mix of work that suits your own individual needs.

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.

Company Information

Our Corporate Tax team spans our 9 office locations and comprises 7 partners and over 100 professionals. The team operates across sectors such as manufacturing, technology, retail, recruitment, financial services, hospitality and property. Clients range from smaller owner‑managed businesses to large listed groups, charities and not‑for‑profit organisations. Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses, 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 are a place shaped by friendly, intelligent people who are individually excellent and collectively exceptional. We are committed to our clients, but also to our greatest asset – our people. As a proud member of Nexia, we have 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.

Benefits & Working Arrangements

• 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 a contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, life assurance cover and flexible family‑friendly benefits;
• Eligibility for the firm's profit‑sharing plan, paid in December;
• Eligibility for the discretionary bonus scheme.