Director / Partner, Business Tax

GRAVITA; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Development support

Job summary

Gravita Business Services Ltd. is seeking a Director/Partner to lead the Business Tax team. You will shape strategy for ambitious owner-managed firms and PE-backed groups, providing commercially focused tax advice to support growth, protect value, and manage risk.

You will combine technical excellence with business development, mentoring, and leadership of a high-performing team across client relationships and advisory projects. Role spans growth, transactions, and succession planning.

Qualifications

• CTA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent professional qualification.
• Experience operating within Business Tax Advisory, Corporate Tax or related discipline.
• Demonstrable experience leading tax advisory projects and managing senior client relationships.
• Strong technical knowledge for businesses.
• Commercially minded with the ability to balance technical excellence with practical client solutions.
• Strategic thinker with ability to identify opportunities and contribute to wider business growth.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to business owners, shareholders and senior leadership teams on a broad range of business tax matters.
• Lead delivery of tax advisory projects across corporate tax, OBMs and transactions.
• Provide commercially focused advice that aligns tax strategy with wider business objectives.
• Support clients through key business events including acquisitions, disposals, group restructures, fundraising activity and succession planning.
• Build long-term client relationships and become a key point of contact for strategic tax matters.
• Oversee project delivery, resource planning and risk management.
• Drive business development and opportunities within existing client base.

Education

CTA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent professional qualification

Experience in Business Tax Advisory/Corporate Tax

Leading tax advisory projects & senior client relationships

Strong technical knowledge for businesses

Commercially minded with practical client solutions

Strategic thinking and growth mindset

Job description

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a full service, tech-enabled firm, working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

The Role

As a Director or Partner within our Business Tax team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and growing one of Gravita's key strategic service lines. Working with ambitious owner-managed businesses, private equity-backed companies and growing SME groups, you will provide commercially focused tax advice that supports business growth, protects value and manages risk.

You will combine technical expertise with commercial acumen, helping to develop client relationships, drive business development activity, lead complex advisory projects and work with a high-performing team.

You will work collaboratively across the wider Gravita business, supporting clients throughout their business lifecycle, from growth and expansion through to transactions, succession and exit.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Advisory & Client Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to business owners, shareholders and senior leadership teams on a broad range of business tax matters.

• Lead the delivery of tax advisory projects across corporate tax, OMBs and transactions.

• Provide commercially focused advice that aligns tax strategy with wider business objectives.

• Support clients through key business events including acquisitions, disposals, group restructures, fundraising activity and succession planning.

• Build long-term client relationships and become a key point of contact for strategic tax matters.

Growth & Business Development

• Support the growth of the Business Tax service line through proactive business development activity with support of the tax team.

• Identify opportunities within the existing client base and work closely with colleagues to deliver joined-up client solutions.

• Lead client pitches, proposals, and initiatives.

Leadership & Team Development

• Mentor and develop a high-performing tax professionals within the team.

• Create a collaborative and inclusive culture that supports development, performance and career progression.

• Coach and support future leaders within the business.

• Contribute to recruitment, succession planning and capability building across the tax team.

• Ensure technical excellence and high-quality client service standards are maintained.

Operational & Commercial Leadership

• Oversee project delivery, resource planning and risk management.

• Support the wider leadership team in delivering business objectives and strategic initiatives.

• Drive continuous improvement in processes, systems and client experience.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience:

• CTA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent professional qualification.

• Experience operating within Business Tax Advisory, Corporate Tax or a related specialist tax discipline.

• Demonstrable experience leading tax advisory projects and managing senior client relationships.

• Strong technical knowledge for businesses.

• Good ability to generating opportunities within existing client base and support winning new clients.

• Commercially minded with the ability to balance technical excellence with practical client solutions.

• Strategic thinker with the ability to identify opportunities and contribute to wider business growth.

Your Career with Gravita

When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.

We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.

The Key Details

• Our standard working week is a 37.5-hour week on a hybrid basis

• Core working hours are 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday

• Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fast-paced changes.

• Your development won’t be forgotten, our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.

• It's a busy, fast-paced environment here at Gravita. Feel free to check out our social media channels (Instagram, X, LinkedIn and Glassdoor).