Senior Tax Manager, Private & PE-backed Businesses

Opportunity in a Leading Tier A Practice.

This firm is searching for an experienced Senior Tax Manager to join its corporate tax team, specialising in privately owned, entrepreneurial and private equity-backed businesses.

The team works with a diverse portfolio of dynamic and growing organisations, supporting them with their increasingly complex tax compliance requirements as well as a broad range of advisory matters. Clients may be navigating growth, acquisitions, restructurings, ownership changes, succession planning or other significant business developments, creating a varied and commercially focused workload.

The firm places a strong emphasis on developing trusted adviser relationships with clients. The successful candidate will take the time to understand both the commercial and personal objectives of business owners and senior stakeholders, providing practical, technically robust and tax-efficient solutions.

The corporate tax team forms part of a wider tax practice, giving clients access to specialists across areas including international tax, innovation and incentives, employment taxes, indirect taxes and property-related tax. The successful candidate will therefore have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across the wider practice and bring broader expertise to client engagements.

The Role

As a Senior Tax Manager, you will work with a varied portfolio of entrepreneurial, owner-managed and private equity-backed businesses.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Advising a diverse range of clients on UK corporate tax matters, encompassing both compliance and advisory work.
• Managing and overseeing a portfolio of corporate tax clients, ensuring work is delivered accurately, efficiently and within agreed deadlines.
• Building strong, long-term relationships with clients and acting as a trusted adviser on their tax affairs.
• Taking an active role in client meetings, communicating technical matters clearly and confidently and responding effectively to client queries.
• Providing commercially focused and technically sound advice on a range of corporate tax issues.
• Taking ownership of client assignments from planning through to completion and ensuring high standards of delivery.
• Working collaboratively with specialists across the wider tax practice to provide clients with a comprehensive service.
• Reviewing work and providing guidance, coaching and development support to more junior members of the team.
• Understanding the career aspirations of team members and actively supporting their professional development.
• Identifying opportunities to provide additional value to existing clients by introducing relevant specialist services where appropriate.
• Contributing to business development activity, including preparing and leading pitches, proposals and client presentations.
• Developing relationships within the market and helping to grow the firm's corporate tax offering.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will be a professionally qualified tax or accounting professional, such as CTA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent, with relevant post-qualification experience.

You will ideally have experience managing a portfolio of entrepreneurial or privately owned businesses and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role.

The following experience and attributes would be beneficial:

• Strong technical knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation.
• A good understanding of wider or international corporate tax concepts.
• Experience reviewing tax work and supervising or mentoring colleagues.
• Previous experience within a professional services, accountancy or tax environment.
• Proven experience managing a substantial portfolio of corporate tax clients.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to establish credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrable business development and commercial awareness.
• The ability to identify opportunities to broaden client relationships and introduce relevant services.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving, with the ability to develop practical and creative solutions to complex tax issues.
• A genuine interest in developing a broad understanding of the firm's wider services and using that knowledge to enhance the client experience.

The successful candidate will be commercially minded, technically capable and confident working with entrepreneurial business owners and senior decision-makers.

You will be someone who enjoys building lasting client relationships, takes ownership of their work and is motivated by the opportunity to contribute to both client success and the continued growth of the wider tax practice.