Moore Kingston Smith

SME-focused digital transformation advisory and audit

Corporate Tax Manager

Financial & Transaction AdvisoryUpdated on Nov 15

Full-timeLondon, UK£67k - £75k /yrHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

The candidate should have a solid knowledge base and experience in aspects of income tax self-assessment, PAYE, and corporation tax compliance procedures sufficient to supervise team members working in those areas.
The candidate should understand accountancy principles and be CTA qualified.
The candidate should have extensive experience following attainment of their qualifications.
The candidate should have advanced Excel and Word skills.
The candidate should have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
The candidate should have experience mentoring and developing more junior team members.
The candidate should be able to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion.
The candidate should be able to prioritize work and deliver it to an agreed timescale and budget.
The candidate should be able to generate creative ideas for technical work and business development.
The candidate should be able to build rapport with clients and earn their trust.

Responsibilities

Provide bespoke tax advice to clients and the firm's in-house commercial and private client solicitors, working with partners and the senior management team to implement that advice.
Work on a broad range of tax advisory projects and clients, developing overall tax advisory skills.
Spend approximately 80% of working time working closely with partners and junior team members to deliver tax advice to clients.
Communicate with clients and work on projects from initial engagement through legal implementation.
Develop peers and more junior colleagues technically and professionally on a day-to-day basis.
Manage delivery of advice to partners for approval, review junior team members' output, and prepare and deliver bespoke advice directly to partners.
Work with partners on pitches for new clients, remotely and in person.
Structure corporate transactions, including section 110 reconstructions, statutory demergers, and company share repurchases, and advise on relevant tax reliefs.
Prepare initial transaction advice and work with appointed legal practices to preserve the intended tax outcomes.
Consider the relevant scope of taxation in advice, including corporation tax, income tax, capital gains tax, VAT, and stamp duty or stamp duty land tax.
Prepare tax valuations and clearance letters for submission to HMRC when necessary.
Manage full-scope tax due diligence projects and liaise with the wider tax team to deliver reports covering corporation tax, PAYE, VAT, and other relevant taxes.
Advise on employee share incentives, including EMI schemes, and prepare relevant valuation reports for submission to HMRC.
Advise on qualifying conditions for tax reliefs such as EIS and SEIS, and submit advance assurance applications on clients' behalf.
Write reports containing technical tax analysis applied to clients' facts clearly and coherently, and review junior team members' work for accuracy before partner delivery.
Assist with the team's compliance work, including reviewing complex corporation tax returns for groups, international clients, and larger clients.
Support the General Practice by reviewing annual computations for audit clients and assisting with technical tax queries arising from its work and clients.

Desired Qualifications

ACA or ACCA qualification, and CTA or ATT qualification.

Our Corporate and Business Tax team are looking for a Corporate Tax Manager to join its exciting and growing department. The right candidate will work alongside both the senior management team and partners, to provide bespoke tax advice to clients, and our team of in-house commercial and private client solicitors, to implement that advice.

The role of a manager in our team offers excellent opportunities to work on a broad range of tax advisory projects and clients to develop the right candidate’s overall tax advisory skills. The right candidate can expect to spend around 80% of their working time working closely with the partners and more junior members of the team to deliver tax advice to the firm’s clients. The candidate will get full exposure to client facing communication and working on projects all the way from initial engagement through to the legal implementation. The candidate would also be expected to play an important role in the development of their peers and more junior colleagues on a day-to-day basis, both technically and professionally.

The candidate would be expected to manage the delivery of advice to the partner for approval and this consists of a good balance between working with more junior resource in the team and reviewing their output and being responsible for the preparation and delivery of bespoke advice direct to the partners. The candidate would also have good exposure to working with partners on pitching for new clients both remotely and in person.

The firm’s clients consist largely of OMBs and large corporates and as such advisory projects regularly consist of the following matters:

Structuring corporate transactions such as s.110 reconstructions, statutory demergers and company share repurchases and advising clients on the availability of any relevant reliefs. As well as preparing and delivering the initial advice, we frequently work with the appointed legal practices to ensure that their work preserves the desired tax outcomes.
The right candidate would be expected to have and develop a good working knowledge of a variety of taxes such that consideration can be given in the advice to the full scope of relevant taxation such as corporation tax, income tax, capital gains tax, VAT and stamp duty/SDLT.
To the extent necessary, the candidate would also be required to prepare tax valuations and clearance letters for submission to HMRC in respect of such transactions.
Managing full scope tax due diligence projects and liaising with other members of the wider tax team to deliver reports covering corporation tax, PAYE and VAT (and any other relevant taxes) on such assignments.
Advising on employee share incentives such as EMI schemes and preparing the relevant valuation reports for submission to HMRC.
Advising on the qualifying conditions for certain tax reliefs such as EIS/SEIS and making advance assurance submissions on behalf of the clients.
A significant amount of our advice is delivered in the form of written reports and the candidate will be required to both write up technical tax analysis and apply this to the clients facts in a clear and coherent manner as well and review work prepared by more junior members of the team and ensure it is accurate prior to delivery to the partner.

Although the role is predominantly advisory based, there will be a requirement to assist with the compliance work that falls within the team. This would typically consist of:

Reviewing the preparation of more complex corporation tax returns, often for groups, international or larger clients of the firm.
Supporting our General Practice through the review of some annual computations for their audit clients as well as working closely with them to provide support for technical tax queries that come out of their work and their clients.

The ideal candidate should be client focused with a solid knowledge base and experience of aspects of income tax self-assessment, PAYE and Corporation Tax compliance procedures that will allow them to supervise members of the team who deal with the areas. They should also have an understanding of accountancy principles and be CTA qualified.

They will preferably be ACA/ACCA and CTA/ATT qualified
Extensive experience following attaining their qualifications
Advanced excel and word skills
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
A good team player
Experience of mentoring and developing more junior team members
Enthusiastic and willing to learn
Organised and motivated
A driven person who will take ownership of tasks and drive to completion
Ability to prioritise work
Ability to deliver work to an agreed timescale and budget
Ability to generate creative ideas both for technical work and business development purposes
Ability to build personal rapport with clients and to win their trust

About the Company

Moore Kingston Smith

SME-focused digital transformation advisory and audit

Moore Kingston Smith is an advisory and accounting firm focused on helping small and medium-sized UK-based enterprises accelerate digital transformation. It offers audit, tax, and consulting services, with a particular emphasis on change management so software selections and technology implementations align with a client’s business goals to drive growth and efficiency. The firm delivers its product through fee-based services and long-term advisory engagements, combining practical, actionable strategic insights with industry knowledge. What sets it apart from competitors is its deep UK market expertise and its integrated approach that pairs traditional accounting and compliance work with targeted digital transformation guidance and change management. The company’s goal is to enable SMEs to adopt and use the right technology effectively, improving operations and achieving sustainable growth.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: United Kingdom
Founded: 1923

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