Senior Manager - Indirect Tax - Midlands

TN United Kingdom; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Manager in Indirect Tax to join their Midlands team. This role involves delivering high-quality tax advisory services, managing complex projects, and building strong client relationships. You will collaborate closely with partners, lead cross-border teams, and drive business development initiatives. The ideal candidate will be CTA or ACA qualified with strong UK VAT advisory experience and excellent interpersonal skills. This position offers a flexible hybrid work environment, allowing you to balance office collaboration with remote work.

Qualifications

• Qualified CTA or ACA / CA or equivalent required.
• Strong UK VAT advisory experience and corporation tax knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technically excellent advice and service on complex projects.
• Manage UK and cross-border teams on advisory projects.

Skills

UK VAT advisory experience

Interpersonal skills

Oral and written communication skills

Analytical skills

Project management skills

Business development

Education

Qualified CTA or ACA / CA or equivalent

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Senior Manager - Indirect Tax - Midlands, Birmingham

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Client:

KPMG

Location:

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

17

Posted:

07.05.2025

Expiry Date:

21.06.2025

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Job Description:

This exciting role is within our Midlands Indirect tax team, based in our Midlands Offices.

Our clients include UK headquartered businesses and inbound groups across a range of sectors.

Our work in the tax advisory space includes supporting clients with business and fiscal change. This can include advising on new jurisdiction entry, the development of new business areas, business reorganisations, tax authority enquiries, pre/post transaction reorganisations, refinancing, cash repatriation, interest deductibility and the impact global fiscal change (e.g. BEPS Pillar 2).

We work as a hybrid team where we get together in the office or at client sites at least twice a week to collaborate and learn together, with flexibility over how you spend the rest of your time.

The role

• Working closely with Partners and/or Directors on complex projects to deliver technically excellent advice and service
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients and understanding their business to build your own external network and create opportunities to help with the provision of tax and other services.
• Managing UK and cross border teams on advisory projects, liaising with specialists, overseas member firms and external advisers, critically analysing and challenging their input to deliver successful projects and expertise to our clients
• Providing high quality Indirect Tax advisory services on a broad range of indirect tax issues to a range of corporate clients
• Implementation of business development initiatives
• Providing sales support, developing, building and maintaining key B2B and B2C client relationships
• Managing aspects of the team’s operations and performance, including resourcing, and coaching and developing junior team members
• Seeking out and pursuing opportunities with clients and targets and actively participating with Partners and Directors in business development activities
• Managing our engagement quality and risk processes and client financials
• Being a role model for KPMG’s values

The person

• Qualified CTA or ACA / CA or equivalent
• UK VAT advisory experience
• Ambitious and enthusiastic
• Strong UK corporation tax knowledge and awareness of other tax and accounting matters
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills, curious and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.
• Excellent project management skills, including ability to work as part of a team and to show initiative to drive projects forward.
• Brings insight and effectively applies knowledge to business and client problems.
• Sound judgement, including the ability to identify and evaluate risk issues and know when to involve others.
• Ability to multi task and manage a range of clients, projects, and relationships.
• Strong motivation to develop and coach junior team members.
• Dedication to continuously develop skills technical knowledge.