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Corporate Tax Senior Manager

Saffery

Inverness

Hybrid

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Job summary

Saffery seeks a Corporate Tax professional to manage a diverse client portfolio, delivering corporate tax compliance and advisory services. This crucial role involves technical research, mentoring junior colleagues, and ensuring high-quality service delivery to UK and international clients. A supportive, hybrid work environment is included, alongside several employee benefits tailored to individual needs.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme
25 days annual leave
Life Assurance cover
Profit-Sharing Plan
Discretionary bonus scheme
Flexible working policies

Qualifications

  • Qualified individual with ACA/ACCA/CTA, and several years post-qualification experience in corporation tax.
  • Strong analytical skills and project management capabilities.
  • Excellent communication and client-focused approach.

Responsibilities

  • Manage tax compliance and advisory projects for diverse clients.
  • Conduct detailed technical research and address queries.
  • Supervise and mentor junior team members.

Skills

Analytical skills
Project management
Communication
Client focus
UK tax technical skills

Education

ACA/ACCA/CTA qualification

Job description

Please note, this role can be based in either of our Edinburgh or Inverness offices and there may be some additional flexibility around wider travel requirements.

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

Frequently dealing with challenging technical issues, the candidate can expect the role to encompass the following areas amongst others:
  • The successful delivery of tax compliance and related advisory projects. Including working with the accounts team to provide the necessary corporate and deferred tax disclosure for inclusion in statutory accounts;
  • 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
  • Delivery of 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 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.
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