International Tax Manager

Our client’s Tax team thrives on keeping busy. Friendly, driven and diverse, they service clients across the country and around the world. By providing expertise in many different specialist areas of tax, they collaborate across the firm to deliver wider business solutions. From meeting clients’ evolving business needs to managing changes to legislation, there are always fresh challenges to face in the Tax team. If you’re after a career that will keep you on your toes, they’ll give you the autonomy to drive your career forward.

Our client’s Corporate International Tax practice is a dynamic and successful area of their business.  With international taxes being an increasingly high profile field, and with nearly all businesses now having an international footprint, they can offer an exciting and broad range of quality career paths for ambitious people.

The role                           

This role will provide corporate tax compliance, advisory and accounting services to a range of clients across all lines of the sector.  Clients include FTSE companies, AIM listed companies, and private equity backed as well as privately owned businesses.

The primary responsibility will involve working, and developing relationships, with clients to advise on corporate planning and restructuring projects both in the UK and internationally, as well as producing complex UK tax computations and returns. 

Key to the role is for the individual to be able to pro-actively manage their own workload, communicating with senior managers/directors/partners on a regular basis to service their clients. This is essential due to the size and nature of the team. Furthermore, the individual will be expected to be able to consider and highlight further opportunities to develop new work.

Skills and attributes        

Our client is looking for someone with:

• Strong understanding of and previous experience within corporate tax compliance, dealing with the annual tax return process of both small clients and those with a much more extensive number of assignees in the UK and internationally
• Experience of providing corporate tax advisory and compliance services to a variety of clients
• Managing the successful delivery of commercially viable and technically excellent advice to a variety of clients involving tax due diligence, structuring, international and other advisory work and including liaising with specialists in other tax teams and the firm’s overseas offices to manage their input
• Ability to undertake tax audits for clients under UK GAAP, IFRS and US GAAP
• Ability to prepare proposals for new work, including researching target client companies and on technical issues to identify new solutions
• Experience of managing staff
• Ability to actively seek opportunities for selling new services to existing clients
• Educated to degree level, and CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent

Benefits to you                

Our client believes that when their people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. They offer highly competitive starting salaries and review remuneration packages regularly to ensure that pay always positively reflects performance. As well offering support with tuition and professional qualifications, they also provide the following benefits, as standard:

• 28 days’ holiday
• Access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions
• Life assurance cover
• Income protection insurance.                                  

That’s not all. Our client understands that everyone is different, so they offer a range of voluntary benefits to suit every lifestyle. Their flexible benefits platform means their people can choose from a range of tax efficient options to design a benefit package that best suits them. They can:

• Buy up to ten days’ extra holiday
• Add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance
• Enrol in the firm’s Bike to Work scheme
• Enjoy discounts off cinemas, dining, and gyms
• Receive an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan
• Access childcare vouchers
• Take an online health assessment and utilise the firm’s employee assistance programme.