Corporate Tax Manager

Saffery; High Wycombe; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy firm in High Wycombe is looking for a Corporate Tax Manager to oversee tax compliance and advisory services for a diverse client portfolio. The ideal candidate will have qualified status with ACA, ACCA, or CTA and extensive experience in corporate tax. Responsibilities include managing tax compliance, conducting technical research, and mentoring team members. The firm offers excellent benefits including hybrid work options, a contributory pension scheme, and bonuses for employees.

Benefits

35-hour working week

Flexible working policy

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance cover

Profit-Sharing Plan

Discretionary bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Several years post qualification experience in corporation tax.
• Demonstrated strong tax technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of the tax compliance process.
• Conduct detailed technical research for client queries.
• Identify and deliver advisory opportunities.
• Supervise and mentor junior team members.
• Advise on complex tax areas with specialist support.
• Support in tax advisory projects.

Skills

Strong UK tax technical skills

Ability to analyse tax technical queries

Project management skills

Excellent communication skills

Client focus

Collaborative work ability

Coaching and mentoring skills

Education

Qualified ACA/ACCA/CTA

Job description

Corporate Tax - Manager

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.

The 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.

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 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;
• 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.