Business Tax Senior Manager – Financial Services

London - United Kingdom
  • Corporate
  • Business Tax

You will be a key member of a growing team specialising on the provision of corporation tax compliance and advisory services to clients operating in the Financial Services sector. Your role will include supporting engagement partners and directors on complex tax advisory projects with clients, assisting the business tax team with tax technical queries and managing the compliance and advisory needs of a portfolio of large clients within a team working together to delivering these services.

You will need to be client facing, show willingness to work as a team, manage junior staff and have strong technical skills to advise clients. You may have specific tax technical expertise and experience either across one of our sectors or in an advisory area listed below.

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 includes the following:

  • Tax advisory projects with partners and clients including:

  • Corporate restructuring and demergers

  • International matters

  • Venture capital tax reliefs

  • Tax sections due diligence reports

  • Reporting fund status work

  • Managing a portfolio of large corporate clients including both standalone clients and groups within our Financial Services sector. Responsible for:

  • Review of corporate tax compliance

  • Tax advisory work arising on this portfolio

  • Liaising and assisting engagement partners

  • Identifying tax efficient opportunities for clients and liaising with partners on implementing those opportunities

  • Responsible for managing billing and work in progress

  • Assisting partners and the business tax team on tax technical queries

  • Opportunities to get involved in the firm’s sector-based business development activities

  • Opportunity to assist with team responsibilities in corporate team including line management and assisting in development, training and the appraisal process

  • Providing expertise advisory work in particular areas such as reporting fund status, permanent establishment queries

  • Complex structuring advisory work for new funds and or fintech businesses

Behavioural Competencies

  • Multitask in terms of handling multiple clients simultaneously

  • Excellent technical and personal skills to service a portfolio of clients efficiently and effectively

  • Demonstration of our core values: Integrity, Collaboration, Empowerment, Dynamism

  • Ability to nurture, motivate and develop junior staff and empower them to perform to their best ability

  • Excellent communication skills and be confident, articulate and able to communicate at all levels externally and internally

  • Ability to produce high quality business style reports for directors and business owners

  • A team player

  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise work and work to tight deadlines

  • Proven track record of establishing and maintaining strong relationships

  • Be able to learn and adapt to new situations or work on new software

Work-Based Competencies

  • Specialist expertise within the Financial Services sector

  • Experience working with hedge funds clients, as well as Private Equity/Venture Capital exposure

  • Has previously managed a client portfolio including groups

  • Ideally be CTA/ACA qualified

  • Good Microsoft skills - Outlook, Excel, Word

  • 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

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