Why this role?
Are you ready to join a multinational Professional Services network and one of the most well-established accounting practices? Some of the benefits of joining the Tax team include:
- Opportunities to learn for a lifetime and be effectively supported in terms of mentorship, training and personal development
- Diversity is celebrated – different specialisms and disciplines often in one team
- Chance to work on exciting and stimulating projects with a diverse range of clients of different sizes and from different sectors
- Hybrid & flexible working encouraged to support colleagues
- Opportunities to be involved in various Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and to support charitable causes
- Development opportunities such as secondments and a ‘people manager’ programme to develop your career and find new opportunities
What’s the Opportunity?
Iconic Resourcing presents a fantastic opportunity for a Manager (Operational Taxes) to join a successful tax team within one of the Big 4 Accountancy Practices.
The financial services corporate tax team is a fast growing part of the company’s tax practice and as such they are seeking someone who is ready to join a dynamic and challenging working environment within a strong supportive leadership team.
You will be based within the Core Asset Management tax team, which has a diverse client and target base spanning the Financial Services sector - providing services to traditional asset managers and financial services institutions, alternative investors, the real estate sector, wealth and hedge asset managers, UK pension funds and global institutional investors.
You will have a particular interest in operational taxes, ideally with experience in the FS market sector. There will also be opportunities to provide clients with corporate tax advisory and compliance services and work in the Real Estate Tax and PE Funds specialisms (experience in any of these areas is welcome).
If you are a self-starter with a good level of core corporate tax technical knowledge and a confident outward facing skillset willing to invest time and effort in the marketplace, then this could be the role for you!
How will you fit?
In order to take on this role, you will:
- Be qualified CTA or ACA/CA or equivalent (by exception we will also consider candidates with extensive operational taxes experience without a formal qualification)
- Have strong corporate tax technical knowledge
- Have a good knowledge of UK corporate tax and an awareness of other tax and accounting areas.
- Have strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills
- Have high level analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice
- Be able to work as part of a team including managing, coaching and developing team members
- Have strong task management skills
- Be able to build client relationships
- Have good computational and excel skills
- Have good technology skills - experience of Alphatax would be advantageous but not essential
- Have strong financial and risk management acumen
- M&A tax and/or international tax experience would be an advantage but is not a requirement
You’ll add value to the team by:
- Carrying out detailed technical research and providing advice on a range of operational tax matters
- Being the first point of contact for multiple clients
- Co-ordinating the advice provided by other overseas teams and other tax skillsets
- Taking responsibility for the delivery of high quality compliance and reporting services for a portfolio of clients
- Where relevant, providing tax structuring, tax due diligence and restructuring advice on a wide range of transactions
- Working closely with colleagues in other parts of the firm, both within and outside of Tax
- Developing and maintaining client relationships
- Understanding the client's business and helping to identify areas for the provision of tax and other services
- Being involved in business development and proposal activity
- Ensuring all risk procedures are adhered to
So what next?
We value your experience as a candidate and understand that considering a new role can be daunting, therefore we are offering first stage informal and confidential chats where you can find out more about the role and your suitability.
To find out more, please contact Caitlin Farquharson.
Iconic Resourcing is an equal opportunities employer, and all applications will be treated as such. We act as both an employment business and an employment agency.