Tax Advisory Manager

Hentons; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hentons in Central London is seeking an experienced Tax Advisory Manager for owner-managed businesses. The role combines leadership of tax advisory projects with strong client relationships in a hybrid work pattern (4 days in office, 1 day optional home).

You’ll provide corporate tax guidance, succession planning, and transaction support while collaborating with the wider advisory team to deliver high-quality outcomes for diverse clients.

Qualifications

• ATT and/or CTA qualified or part-qualified tax professional.
• Strong technical judgement and written communication.
• 5+ years in Tax Advisory Services.

Responsibilities

• Lead tax advisory projects from planning to completion.
• Collaborate with advisory team on large-scale assignments.
• Build and maintain client relationships as trusted tax advisor.
• Identify opportunities for business development from client relationships.
• Manage project budgets and billing for services.
• Provide corporate tax guidance for owner-managed businesses.
• Advise on succession planning, shareholder arrangements and family planning.
• Support transactions with tax implications and share ownership changes.
• Lead client engagements, supervise work, and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Client relationship management

Leadership

Communication

Education

ATT/CTA qualified

Job description

Tax Advisory Manager — Owner-Managed Businesses

Location: Central London

Working pattern: Hybrid - 4 days a week in office, 1 day option to work from home

Qualifications: ATT and/or CTA qualified or part-qualified

In this role, you’ll play a key part in delivering high-quality tax advisory services to a diverse range of clients. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading tax advisory projects from initial planning through to completion, ensuring work is delivered to a high professional standard.
• Collaborating with the wider advisory team on complex or large-scale assignments, contributing your expertise to deliver the best outcomes for clients.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor on tax matters.
• Identifying opportunities to support clients further and contributing to business development through warm leads from both existing and prospective clients.
• Managing project budgets and billing responsibilities to ensure efficient and commercially sound delivery of services.
• Corporate tax advice: advising OMBs on profit extraction, pension funding, shareholder arrangements, corporate reorganisations, financing and transactions.
• Shareholder and family planning: providing joined-up advice on succession, inheritance tax and the interaction between company ownership, control and family wealth transfer. Family investment companies can separate economic ownership from day-to-day control, but the structure and implementation must reflect its genuine estate-planning purpose.
• Transaction support: identifying tax consequences of share issues, debtcapital arrangements, dividend planning and changes in share ownership, with particular care where value is transferred among family shareholders.
• Client leadership: managing client relationships, supervising advisory work, reviewing technical output and collaborating with colleagues across accounts, audit and private client teams

Candidate profile

• You will be ATT and/or CTA qualified, or a part-qualified tax professional with demonstrable strong corporate tax compliance experience (corporate tax advisory experience would be an advantage).
• You will bring strong technical judgement, clear written communication and the confidence to explain advice to entrepreneurial clients.
• At least 5 years’ experience working in Tax Advisory Services, with a strong understanding of advisory work and the wider tax advisory market.
• Proven experience preparing and delivering tax advisory reports. Experience working in an environment where you contribute to generating new work through client relationships and business development.
• Experience in the following areas would be advantageous: Company Restructures & Reorganisations, Succession Planning, Share Schemes, Company Purchase of Own Shares, Tax Investigations, VAT, R&D, SDLT, Inheritance Tax, and Trusts.

The position offers meaningful responsibility, direct client exposure and the opportunity to work on connected corporate and shareholder planning for established and growing family businesses.