Tax Advisory - Director

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

Job summary

Saffery LLP in London is seeking an experienced Tax Advisory Director to join the Corporate Tax team and contribute to a broad range of advisory projects. You will work directly with tax partners, manage client relationships, and guide complex tax matters across transactions and reorganisations.

We value strong UK tax technical skills, collaboration with Corporate Finance, and the ability to lead teams on challenging assignments.

Qualifications

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CTA with several years post-qualification experience in corporation tax.
• Experience in due diligence and M&A preferred.
• Ability to lead advisory projects and communicate complex tax matters clearly.

Responsibilities

• Develop go to market strategy with partners.
• Lead diverse clients including startups, private capital and large international groups.
• Advise on disposals, acquisitions and commercial restructurings.
• Coordinate tax due diligence with corporate finance and VAT teams.
• Oversee tax structuring for cross-border and intra-group transactions.
• Review tax covenants and related disclosures in M&A deals.
• Engage in inheritance tax planning and cross-border tax issues.
• Build strong client relationships and collaborate with other partners.

Skills

Tax advisory

Due diligence

M&A

Project management

Client management

Communication

Education

ACA/ACCA/CTA

Job description

The role

As part of our growth strategy, we are looking to recruit an experienced Tax Advisory Director. The successful candidate will form part of the wider Saffery Corporate Tax team and will be part of the tax advisory offering at Saffery. The role will involve helping our clients with a wide range of tax advisory projects including advising on transactions, undertaking tax due diligence, advising on corporate reorganisations, employee share incentives and interaction with fund principals. Work will be undertaken directly for tax partners in London as well as the regional offices. The candidate would also be encouraged to build their own relationships with both clients and other internal non-tax partners and to work closely with other colleagues, in particular with the Corporate Finance team.

The responsibilities

Frequently dealing with challenging technical issues, the candidate can expect the role to encompass the following areas amongst others:

• Work with our partners, to develop our go to market strategy;
• Lead on and collaborate with a diverse range of clients, including startups, growing entrepreneurial businesses, private family capital, large international groups, and investment funds;
• Advising client management teams and shareholders on business disposals and acquisitions;
• Running and coordinating tax due diligence projects, working closely with the corporate finance team and the employment tax and VAT teams;
• Advising on and assisting with the implementation of corporate reorganisations such as capital reduction and s110 demergers;
• Review of share purchase agreements, tax covenants and tax disclosure letters in connection with business acquisitions and disposals;
• Preparing HMRC statutory and non-statutory clearance applications;
• Advising on structuring international groups and cross border corporate transactions, including liaising with other firms in the Nexia network;
• Advising on structuring property acquisitions and disposals;
• Inheritance tax planning for private clients using shares;
• Advising on the interpretation and application of double tax agreements in respect of corporate transactions; and
• Liaising with tax compliance teams on follow-up compliance work arising from transactions.

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. The Tax advisory team sits within the Corporate Tax Team and works closely with them as well as our Corporate Finance team.

You

The role would suit a qualified individual (for example ACA/ACCA/CTA) with several years post qualification experience in corporation tax, due diligence, and M&A.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

• An ability to provide advice and solutions to technical tax queries and interpret technical matters of varying complexity and communicate this information clearly to clients and other team members;
• Review and prepare advisory reports and correspondence on complex/technical tax matters;
• Strong UK tax technical skills and understanding;
• Project management skills, with the ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor budgets;
• Provide feedback on the progress of work to those involved including clients, colleagues, and other advisers, keeping them informed of developments;
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Client focus and commercial awareness;
• Commitment to building strong client relationship management with ability to develop quality outputs to clients;
• Excellent communication, both written and oral, in a range of situations and to a range of stakeholders; and
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day responsibility for projects.

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, collaborative, progressive and responsible, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.