Tax Manager

Regal Executive Search; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is searching for a Tax Manager in London to lead their tax compliance function. This role encompasses providing tax assistance to individuals and businesses in the music, entertainment, and sports sectors. The ideal candidate must have strong interpersonal and analytical abilities, a relevant bachelor's degree, and a minimum of five years of experience in sophisticated tax projects. This position involves significant team collaboration and client interaction, offering an engaging career in an international setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years’ relevant experience with high-net-worth individual and corporate tax.
• Strong experience in tax planning and compliance projects.
• Two years of recent experience with a public accounting firm.

Responsibilities

• Oversee tax compliance function for individuals and businesses.
• Assist clients with comprehensive tax services.
• Prepare and review tax forms.
• Provide quality, practical tax planning and budgeting.
• Supervise staff and lead professional development.
• Participate in managing the tax department.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Project management skills

Leadership skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or Mathematics

Graduate degree of MST or Tax LLM

Tools

CCH Access

Microsoft Office tools

Job description

Tax Manager

Our client offers financial services to a client base consisting of individuals and businesses within the music, entertainment, and sport industries. The Company is international with multiple offices in Europe and USA

We are currently looking for a Tax Manager to oversee our tax compliance function.

Position Responsibilities

• Provide tax-related domestic and cross-border planning and compliance assistance to entertainment business-connected individuals and their associated entities
• Assist individual clients needing a wide range of tax services, including tax compliance, tax planning and tax advice relating to their business interests, investments and related assets
• Prepare and review of tax forms
• Serve as an advisor to high-net-worth individuals, family businessesand executive groups by providing a wide array of professional tax services, including individual and flow-through entity tax planning and compliance; and gift tax, wealth succession, and estate tax planning and compliance
• Provide quality, practical tax planning; develop budgets; determine resource requirements; and direct and monitor engagements
• Participate in managing the tax department by assisting in forecasting future work, delegating work effectively and resolving staffing issues
• Supervise staff and seniors and take an active role in their professional development, review their work products for completeness and accuracy, and prepare work products for client delivery
• Participate in client meetings and work within a team environment to provide integrated advisory services to clients

Candidate Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field (Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Mathematics)
• Graduate degree of MST or Tax LLM preferred
• Minimum of five years’ relevant experience with complex high-net-worth individual, partnership and corporate tax projects with an emphasis on planning and compliance projects with international connections
• Two years of recent experience with a public accounting firm is preferred
• Fiduciary income tax planning preferred
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving ability
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to lead client meetings
• Strong team, project management and leadership skills
• Commitment to ongoing learning in a tax technology environment
• Proficient experience with CCH Access, or similar platform
• Proficient knowledge of automated tax processing systems and Microsoft Office tools