Manager, Transaction Tax

Opportunity in a Leading National Practice.

This firm is searching for a Manager to join its growing Transaction Tax team. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified tax professional to work across a broad range of transactions, providing tax structuring advice and undertaking tax due diligence for private equity and corporate clients.

The role will involve exposure to both buy-side and sell-side transactions, with potential opportunities to work on public company transactions, including those involving AIM and the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

If you enjoy working across a variety of projects, sectors and clients, this role offers an excellent platform to further develop your transaction tax expertise.

The Role

As a Manager, Transaction Tax, you can expect to:

• Lead discussions with clients, legal advisers and other transaction stakeholders, presenting findings and building strong client relationships.
• Work closely with Financial Due Diligence (FDD), SPA Advisory and other Transaction Advisory Services teams to deliver a joined-up approach across transactions.
• Lead due diligence meetings with target businesses and oversee the resulting analysis, ensuring reports are accurate, robust and commercially focused.
• Prepare and review tax structuring reports based on proposed acquisition structures, assessing key tax implications in line with the commercial objectives of each transaction.
• Contribute to all aspects of the transaction process, including reviewing forecast models, funds flows and relevant legal documentation.
• Build strong internal relationships across Transaction Advisory Services, Corporate Finance and international member firms to identify and develop opportunities.
• Develop and maintain relationships with private equity funds, corporate clients, law firms and intermediaries, supporting business development activity.
• Assist with the preparation of proposals and presentations for prospective clients and contribute to wider business development initiatives.
• Manage project budgets, ensuring accurate and timely billing, effective fee collection and appropriate management of outstanding debtors.
• Undertake high-quality technical tax research using legislation, tax authority guidance and internal technical resources.
• Support the development and training of junior members of the team, helping to build technical capability and transaction experience.

This firm is looking for a qualified chartered accountant or tax adviser, such as ACA, CA, CTA, ADIT or equivalent, with a strong grounding in UK taxation.

Ideally, you will bring some of the following experience:

• Experience in UK corporation tax compliance and/or M&A or transaction tax.
• Exposure to a range of tax areas, which may include transfer pricing, R&D, VAT, employment taxes, stamp duty, share transactions or share option schemes.
• Proven experience in client relationship management and project management.
• Strong technical tax knowledge and demonstrable experience advising on complex tax matters.
• The ability to manage multiple deliverables, prioritise effectively and consistently meet deadlines.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with confidence engaging with clients, advisers and senior stakeholders.
• Good Excel and PowerPoint skills, with experience preparing client-facing and transaction-related documentation.
• A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively as part of multidisciplinary transaction teams.

This is an opportunity to join a supportive and commercially focused transaction tax environment, with significant exposure to high-quality transactions and the opportunity to develop both technical and client-facing skills.