Corporate Tax Manager

Saffrey LLP; High Wycombe; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

35 hour work week

Pension

Life Assurance

Discretionary bonus

Profit-Sharing Plan

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Saffery LLP in the United Kingdom seeks a qualified corporate tax professional to join its Corporate Tax team, handling a diverse client portfolio across UK and international clients, focusing on compliance and advisory work.

You will deliver tax compliance processes, mentor junior staff, and contribute to advisory projects including complex capital allowances, transfer pricing, and restructurings, with support from specialist colleagues.

Qualifications

• Qualified professional with several years post-qualification experience in corporation tax.
• Strong UK tax technical skills and ability to analyse tax queries and provide robust solutions.
• Experience in mentoring junior staff and managing projects across teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver efficient tax compliance processes including tax accounting.
• Perform detailed technical research and respond to ad-hoc client queries.
• Identify and deliver advisory opportunities within the client portfolio.
• Supervise, mentor, and review junior team members.
• Advise on complex areas such as capital allowances, R&D tax relief, transfer pricing, CFC, and other reliefs, with specialist support as needed.
• Support in stand-alone tax advisory projects including structuring acquisitions, disposals, transaction support and due diligence.

Skills

UK tax expertise

Tax analysis

Project management

Communication skills

Client relationship building

Team collaboration

Coaching and mentoring

Education

ACA/ACCA/CTA qualification

Job description

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

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.

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; 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.