Corporate Tax – Manager

Create a positive impact, based in Leeds salary up to £65k

About the Company

Our client is recognised as one of the leaders in their field, they are known internationally for their work and the impact this work has across the 90 countries they operate in.  They are known for quality, performance and exceptional results.  Your opportunity is to join them as a Corporate Tax Manager (Compliance) in the Privately Owned Business Sector team.

About the Role

Our client has enjoyed significant growth over the last three years across all areas of their Financial Services teams, not least their tax service line.  Our client provides bespoke advice across all areas of taxation, helping their clients to navigate the complexities of tax codes, often in multiple areas of sector jurisdictions, and to help them ensure they are fulfilling all their obligations and paying the correct amount of tax.  In this way our client helps them to manage an area of significant financial and reputational risk and to make properly informed decisions about their tax position whether they are an individual, a business owner or a corporate organisation. They also help clients resolve any disputes they have with the tax authorities as swiftly as possible, ensuring the client receives a bespoke tax service which is delivered efficiently and effectively.

The purpose of the Corporate Tax Manager role is to help the Leeds office tax offering grow, specifically their clients that are Privately Owned Businesses by building relationships with new and existing clients, adopting best practice processes, use of technology and continuous process improvement and by developing your people. 

 Role & Responsibilities 

• The role of the tax manager will include:
• Building relationships with a portfolio of clients in our Privately Owned Business sector
• Reviewing and approving corporation tax computations and tax accounting, as well as undertaking some tax assurance reviews.
• Negotiating and raising fees and being responsible for WIP management on your portfolio of clients. 
• Proactively talking to clients about tax opportunities which may be relevant to them, and working with the tax partners, and wider tax team to deliver on such work. 
• Liaising with colleagues in different service lines and getting involved in office wide initiatives.
• Getting involved in proposals for new business and attending pitch presentations. 
• Developing the wider team, through technical excellence, soft skill development and on the job training.  This will include appraising more junior members of the team including objective setting and having the ability to encourage and foster development of the team. 

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• ACA and/or CTA (or qualified by experience)
• Ability to build excellent client relationship skills
• Ability to build excellent relationships with members of the team. 
• Extensive experience of working with a portfolio of clients to deliver on annual corporation tax reporting requirements
• Demonstrate broad and strong technical tax knowledge and experience;
• Broad experience of managing the financials on clients, delivering on budgets and negotiating fees with clients.
• Ability to work within deadlines and deliver on agreed timescales
• Experience of identifying opportunities for business development on tax clients (and ideally across other service lines)
• Broad experience of coaching and mentoring junior members of the team,
• Willingness to develop leadership skills
• Ideally proficient in Alphatax.

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