Business Tax Manager/Senior Manager

• Manage a portfolio of business tax clients managing their compliance cycle and ensuring deadlines met, building relationships, and identifying areas where Menzies can assist the client. 
• Work on the delivery of tax advice and tax advisory projects in conjunction with colleagues across a number of Menzies business tax teams based in a number of Menzies offices, as well as other teams, and service lines to provide an efficient and valued service.
• Identify wider opportunities and introduce other specialists across the firm.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Managing a portfolio of business tax clients to ensure compliance requirements met, building relationship with the client, and identifying areas where Menzies can assist the client. 
• Assisting with training and management of the business tax team 
• Advising and assisting OMB’s in respect of their business and tax requirements for example succession planning, remuneration planning, timing of capital expenditure and capital allowances planning
• Business tax focused but should have a working knowledge of other areas of tax that would affect entrepreneurs behind a business such as Business Asset Disposal Relief, Business Property Relief.  
• Advising and supporting entrepreneurial businesses throughout their lifecycle including on protecting and leveraging IP and associated restructurings, determining the right business structure, incentivising staff, growing internationally, and building and protecting value for the shareholders.
• Advise on the tax elements of equity incentivisation, such as the EMI option scheme.
• Proactively involved in networking, proposals and growing the corporate tax portfolio
• Identifying opportunities for tax planning, risk mitigation and cross-selling between service lines to ensure clients receive a proactive and effective service.
• Training and mentoring junior colleagues within the Business Tax Team
• Ensuring the Firm’s technical, ethical, risk and compliance procedures are adhered to in all cases

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Qualified accountant and / or CIOT qualified tax adviser with at least one year’s post qualified experience in a tax related role.
• Experience of working with corporate and entrepreneurial clients and managing at an assistant manager or manager level
• Corporate tax technical and practical knowledge
• Good knowledge of tax issues affecting OMB’s and their shareholders 
• Knowledge of other business taxes and tax reporting processes is preferable but not essential.
• Knowledge of UK accounting standards and competent in interpreting accounts and other financial information 
• Strong IT skills including MS Office and databases, alphatax ideal but not essential. 
• Strong communication and organisation skills  
  
  

Job Benefits