Senior Tax Manager

COREcruitment Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

COREcruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Tax Manager to help lead the next stage of our client's Tax function's development, offering autonomy to shape how the department grows and to work closely with senior leadership.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical Tax knowledge with commercial judgement, the ability to develop people, and experience advising owner-managed hospitality businesses, while maintaining high professional standards.

Qualifications

• CTA qualified or equivalent senior Tax experience.
• Experience in a professional services firm.
• Strong advisory, leadership and client-facing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Tax team, building capability and succession underneath the senior role.
• Set clear responsibilities and ensure work is delegated at the appropriate level.
• Coach and develop team members, giving them increasing exposure to technical work, advisory and client ownership.
• Identify recruitment, training and development requirements.
• Build a scalable operating model as the department grows.
• Own senior relationships across the Tax client portfolio, including the firm's most complex and highest-profile clients.
• Act as a trusted adviser to founder-led and owner-managed hospitality businesses.
• Lead complex client conversations without routine escalation to the Managing Director.
• Provide practical, commercially focused advice rather than simply technical answers.
• Identify advisory opportunities across the wider client base.
• Work collaboratively with other departments to identify Tax opportunities earlier in the client relationship.

Skills

Commercial awareness

People development

Tax advisory

Leadership

Client relationships

Education

CTA qualification

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Tax Manager to help lead the next stage of our client's Tax function's development.

This is a genuine opportunity to build depth, develop the team, and combine strong technical delivery with commercial ownership. You'll have real autonomy to shape how the department grows, working closely with senior leadership.

The ideal candidate is someone who combines strong technical Tax knowledge with commercial judgement, client confidence and the ability to develop people.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the Tax team, building capability and succession underneath the senior role.
• Set clear responsibilities and ensure work is delegated at the appropriate level.
• Coach and develop team members, giving them increasing exposure to technical work, advisory and client ownership.
• Identify recruitment, training and development requirements.
• Build a scalable operating model as the department grows.
• Create an environment where the team can operate effectively without becoming dependent on one individual.
• Own senior relationships across the Tax client portfolio, including the firm's most complex and highest-profile clients.
• Act as a trusted adviser to founder-led and owner-managed hospitality businesses.
• Lead complex client conversations without routine escalation to the Managing Director.
• Provide practical, commercially focused advice rather than simply technical answers.
• Identify advisory opportunities across the wider client base.
• Work collaboratively with other departments to identify Tax opportunities earlier in the client relationship.

Commercial ownership

• Own scoping and pricing of Tax advisory work.
• Ensure advisory work does not commence without appropriate scope and fee agreement.
• Own Tax WIP, recovery and commercial performance.
• Identify scope creep and agree fee variations with clients.
• Help develop and grow profitable recurring and advisory Tax revenue.
• Support new-business conversations where senior Tax input is required.
• Understand the commercial performance of the department as well as its technical output.

Technical

• Act as the senior technical point of escalation across the Tax department.
• Provide high-quality advice across a broad mixed-tax portfolio.
• Review complex Tax work and manage technical risk.
• Lead transaction, restructuring and higher-value advisory work where appropriate.
• Provide oversight across areas including Corporation Tax, Personal Tax, SEIS/EIS, share schemes and other specialist work where appropriate.
• Coordinate international and cross-border matters with external specialists.
• Work with fractional/specialist Tax advisers where deeper expertise is required.
• Maintain appropriate professional, technical and review standards.

Wider mandate

• Provide senior oversight across associated areas including our bookkeeping function and Company Secretarial, working closely with the team members who own those functions day to day.
• Work closely with Management Accounts and other departments to improve cross-departmental quality, ownership and accountability.
• Ensure upstream accounting or information issues affecting Tax are identified and escalated early.
• Help identify and develop opportunities across the wider client base.
• Contribute to the firm's wider commercial and strategic agenda.

You'll ideally be:

• CTA qualified, or have equivalent senior Tax experience.
• An experienced Tax Manager / Senior Tax Manager, or ready to step into a Senior Tax Manager role.
• Experienced within an accountancy practice or professional services environment.
• Strong in advising owner-managed and entrepreneurial businesses.
• Broadly experienced across mixed Tax, with strong Corporation Tax knowledge.
• Comfortable reviewing complex work and acting as a senior technical escalation point.
• Commercially confident and comfortable discussing scope and fees directly with clients.
• Experienced in WIP, recovery and profitability.
• Strong at building relationships with founders and senior decision-makers.
• Experienced in developing, coaching and delegating to junior team members.
• Comfortable using external specialists rather than needing to personally hold every area of technical expertise.
• Someone who wants to build and shape a department rather than simply inherit a portfolio.