M&A Tax Senior Manager

A leading Top 5 Accounting Practice is recruiting for a M&A Tax Senior Manager to sit within their Corporate & M&A Tax Team based in Central London.

The Transaction Tax team focusses on delivering high quality M&A tax services to private equity houses and acquisitive corporates across a range of sectors. The team has a focussed growth plan and your contribution will add to this. This role requires an experienced transaction tax operative who is comfortable leading a range of tax due diligence, both buy side and sell side, and tax structuring assignments. The role will require working closely with other members of the team including tax specialist colleagues in VAT, Employment Taxes etc and with colleagues in Transaction Services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a variety of tax due diligence and tax structuring projects, working closely with other specialists within the firm and the transaction support team.
• Develop your own network of contacts internally and externally and start winning own work and cross selling.
• Be responsible for client take on and engagement procedures and managing risks around projects.
• Respond quickly to, as well as anticipating, client requests/needs, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the transaction service provided, and maintaining regular contact with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Input into legal documents and forecast models.
• Be responsible for coaching and developing junior members of staff.
• Contribute to the development of certain key transaction relationships, e.g. key private equity accounts.

About you:

• An in depth, up to date, knowledge of taxation with specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex tax issues arising on transactions
• Demonstrable relevant transactions experience
• Project and staff management experience
• Ability to develop client relationships and to sell new services to existing clients
• Experience of dealing with client senior management and other stakeholders such as legal advisers
• Educated to degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent