Corporate Tax Manager

Grant Thornton; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in Southampton is seeking a Manager for their Private Capital Corporate Tax team. The role involves advising entrepreneurial clients on tax issues, developing junior staff, and overseeing client relationships. Candidates should have a professional qualification in tax and strong knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation. The position offers flexible working options and a commitment to work-life balance.

Benefits

Tailored development programmes

Flexible bank holidays

Pension and life assurance

Private medical insurance

Shopping discounts and gym memberships

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience in a tax environment.
• Experience supervising people in a professional services environment.
• Ability to develop junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on a variety of tax issues.
• Lead client meetings and provide high quality advice.
• Engage with wider tax teams for effective project delivery.

Skills

Knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation

Managing a portfolio of entrepreneurial business clients

Business Development experience

Education

Professional qualification (CTA / ACA / ACCA or equivalent)

Job description

Job Description

NEW GROUND WON’T BREAK ITSELF.

Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals.

Our Private Capital Corporate Tax team specialises in looking after exciting entrepreneurial businesses - we focus on the tax affairs of privately owned and private equity backed companies. These are exciting businesses to work with, they are dynamic, entrepreneurial and often fast growing and they need us to help them navigate their increasingly complex tax compliance obligations and support with a range of tax advisory projects as they grow, restructure and consider succession planning.

Our approach is to work hard to build a strong trusted adviser relationship - we listen to what they want to achieve from a business and a personal perspective and help them do so in the most tax efficient way.

We are part of a much wider national tax practice that also consists of corporate and multinational (who deal with groups with significant multi-national footprint and in-house tax functions) and our specialist services (innovation tax, employment taxes, VAT and real estate). We are able to draw on this specialist expertise to support our Private Capital clients as they grow.

A look into the role

As a member of our Private Capital Corporate Tax team you will have the opportunity to work with a varied client base, from owner-managed business to private equity backed businesses.

Responsibilities

• Be advising a broad range of clients on a range of tax issues, covering a broad range of compliance and advisory projects
• Be actively involved in client meetings, concisely and confidently answering client queries
• Engender trust and respect from clients by producing high quality tax advice accurately, delivering on expectations and deadlines
• Lead from the front in regards to delivering client work, engaging with the wider Tax teams to ensure correct skill utilisation on all projects
• Take responsibility for developing more junior team members, understanding their career aspiration and support in this delivery
• Provide intelligent and creative solutions to client tax issues both reactively and proactively, taking an active approach to cross‑selling wider solutions for other teams around the GT network
• Lead on pitch / proposals. You’ll actively grow the business by being present in the market and demonstrating our capabilities to clients and targets.

Qualifications

Knowing you’re right for us

• Joining us as a Manager the minimum criteria you’ll need is a professional qualification (CTA / ACA / ACCA or equivalent) with post qualification experience, and to be confident managing a portfolio of entrepreneurial business clients.
• You’ll possess strong knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation and a working knowledge of international concepts
• You’ll have reviewed work and supervised people in a tax environment
• You’ll have gained experience working within a professional services environment
• You’ll have experience of managing a large portfolio of tax clients
• You’ll have demonstrable Business Development experience
• An eagerness to develop deep knowledge of the firm’s services and capabilities

Benefits

• Tailored development programmes and access to coaching
• Flexible bank holidays – allowing you to celebrate the days that are important to you
• Benefits including pension, life assurance and private medical, additional holiday purchasing, and health benefits
• Any benefits giving you access to shopping discounts, gym memberships, financial advice
• And more. Visit our benefits section to read more.

How we work

We have a trust‑based way of working, driven by responsible people who have the best interests of our firm and our clients at heart. Our how we work framework gives flexibility in where, how, and when we work to deliver the best results for our clients, whilst helping you keep a balance between work and life. Life is more than work, the things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles. That is how it should be.

We’re looking for people who can help drive the business forward, who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to be able to proudly do what’s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves. It’s how it should be.