Business Tax Manager (Financial Services)

HaysMac is an award-winning firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors, with over 40 partners and over 600 staff, providing advice and services to entrepreneurs, fast-growing and owner-managed businesses, large, complex and listed groups and not for profit organisations across the UK and internationally. From our trainees to our partners, our culture of support and progression means we grow together as one firm to best help our clients.

You will be a member of a growing corporation tax specialist team focusing on providing pro-active corporation tax services to a wide range of clients operating in the Financial Services sector, including owner managed businesses. You will need to be client facing, show willingness to work as part of a team and be able to meet deadlines.

The Financial Services sector is focused on servicing clients including hedge fund managers, private equity firms, currency solutions providers, wealth managers, financial advisors, corporate financiers and fintech firms. This is an exciting role in a growing sector within the business.

The Role

Duties and responsibilities would include the following:

• Managing the corporation tax compliance process for a portfolio of corporate clients including both standalone clients and groups;
• Tax advisory to partners and clients including:
• Structures – company, LLP, etc.;
• Restructuring;
• Group tax planning;
• International matters;
• Venture capital tax reliefs;
• Corporate and property acquisitions and disposals; and
• Tax sections due diligence reports.
• Identifying tax efficient opportunities for clients and liaising with partners on implementing those opportunities;
• Responsible for managing billing and work in progress;
• Team responsibilities including line management for junior staff and assisting in development, training and the appraisal process for sub team staff; and
• Involvement in business development of the firm including attending networking events and opportunity to join a sector group.

Person Specification

• Deliver work to a high standard and willingness to provide an excellent client service;
• Able to demonstrate good client focused skills, ability to work unsupervised, work within a team, influence and negotiate;
• Excellent communication skills essential, being able to communicate with all levels externally and internally; and
• Show creativity with desire to identify possible tax opportunities and potential pitfalls.

Work-Based Competencies

• Has previously managed a client portfolio including groups;
• Ideally be CTA qualified;
• Good Microsoft skills, outlook, excel, word; and
• Alpha tax knowledge preferred.

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles.

If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, please email recruitment@haysmac.com.