Share Schemes Tax Director

Pro-Tax; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 110,000; Full time

Job description

Share Schemes Tax Director

Manchester City Centre

Salary: £110,000 + Flexible/Hybrid working

Are you an experienced shares scheme professional who is looking to take your next step into a leadership role?

We are currently working with a leading professional services firm who are looking to bring in a new Tax Director to sit within their incentives and reward team in Manchester. You'll be working in a new flagship, state of the art Manchester office playing a critical role in helping lead the team and delivering high quality tax advice.

Your new role:

You'll be supporting a varied portfolio of clients, working with large global corporations to smaller fast-growing businesses, meaning your exposure to different aspects of incentive and reward projects will be unrivalled.

As a Director your responsibilities will include:

• Offering advice on commercial and practical aspects of structuring and designing employee equity and cash incentive plans.
• Assisting companies with the rollout of equity and cash incentive plans both within the UK and internationally.
• Providing guidance on the tax and legal implications of incentive plans globally for both employers and employees.
• Advising on the tax consequences of incentives for mobile employees and expatriates.
• Developing strategies to ensure the tax-compliant and tax-efficient delivery of incentives.
• Creating share plan documents and related employee communications, including plan rules, FAQs, and tax guides.
• Preparing technical updates for clients and contacts regarding changes in the tax and legal treatment of incentives.
• Participating in client service meetings and discussing advice with clients as needed.
• Supporting proposals and business development activities, such as preparing slides, bid responses, and building your own client relationships.

A successful candidate will demonstrate many of the following key skills and attributes:

• Proven experience in UK and/or Global Incentive Plan consulting.
• A team player with excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise tasks flexibly to meet deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, capable of simplifying complex issues for clients.
• Ability to take ownership and use initiative to solve problems.
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish rapport and build effective working relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Experience with share plans in a professional services environment or industry, or related areas with an interest in share plans or management incentives.
• Understanding of relevant legislation in this field.
• Willingness to learn and engage with new ideas and technical areas.
• Commercial awareness.
• Ability to produce high-quality, client-facing, technically accurate, and well-written work.
• Proactive and capable of taking ownership of project delivery to clients.
• Professional qualifications such as ACCA, ACA, ATII, ATT, CTA, Solicitor, or Barrister.