Tax Managing Director

Tax Managing Director - Birmingham & London - With ten plus years of corporate tax experience with some of this time ideally spent in the Big 4. £150,000 to £175,000 + LTIPS + Bonus + Commission.

Alexander Daniels have been engaged by a leading global business advisory and accounting firm to help them recruit a Tax Managing Director. Our client has a large team of BIG 4 professionals and serve thousands of global clients throughout Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific regions. Due to continued growth in the UK they are looking to quickly assemble a high-quality team of tax professionals to grow the tax business and provide clients with an exceptional and differentiated serviceOur client provides their clients with a unique combination of integrity, flexibility, creative solutions, and deep tax technical expertise. Many of their clients are global, market leading, publicly held companies, while others are privately held, early stage, or venture-backed emerging businesses. My client places a high value on a culture of continued learning, where teamwork is encouraged, and professional excellence is rewarded.Overview of role:Our client is looking for a highly motivated Tax Managing Director to lead its' UK tax reporting, compliance and governance offering. This position reports directly to the UK Partner-in-Charge of Tax and will require the successful candidate to undertake the following principal activities as part of their role:Client service delivery - tax reporting, governance, and compliance Tax reporting:

• You will be responsible for leading the delivery of UK tax reporting services to our diverse client base, which includes the following:
• UK publicly listed companies.
• US headquartered multinationals (including US listed groups).
• UK privately owned and private equity backed groups.

The tax reporting will vary but is likely to include the following:

• Preparation of UK entity only tax numbers in accordance with IFRS or UK GAAP.
• Preparation of UK group tax numbers, likely to involve the incorporation of tax numbers for non-UK subsidiaries, GAAP-to GAAP adjustments (e.g. US GAAP to IFRS) and consolidation adjustments.
• Advising on client's tax reporting processes.
• Advising on the tax aspects of GAAP conversion projects.
• Advising on the tax reporting (and other) aspects of IPO readiness.

UK corporation tax compliance:

• You will be responsible for overseeing the preparation and submission of UK corporation tax returns for clients. In collaboration with the UK Tax Partner, you will assist with the design and implementation of a UK corporation tax compliance service offering, that is high quality, efficient and cost effective for clients, and optimises the involvement of junior team members to manage the provision of these services and lead the day-to-day relationships with clients.

Practice management and development

• In collaboration with the UK Tax Partner, you will be responsible for building and developing the UK tax practice. Your involvement and input will be required with the following:
• Recruiting new members of the tax team.
• As a managing director, you will also be expected to make a positive contribution to the activities of the wider UK practice.

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies:

• Significant experience of UK tax reporting processes.
• Detailed knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP; high level understanding of US GAAP desired.
• Significant experience of the UK tax return preparation process, and good technical understanding with common tax adjusting items such as interest deductibility, hybrid mismatches, loss utilisation etc.
• Experience of responding to and managing HMRC tax enquiries.
• A good understanding / knowledge of cross-border tax matters would be highly desirable, e.g. transfer pricing, Pillar 2, country by country reporting etc.
• Strong track record of business development activity, in particular winning and expanding tax engagements with clients.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively present information and appropriately respond to questions from clients and team members.
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task, and work under deadlines.
• Excellent analytical, supervisory, organizational, and written and verbal communication skills are necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to be accountable for independently completing assignments.
• Capable of collaborating and communicating with people of different technical backgrounds and roles.
• Leadership skills that display good judgment and certainty in decision making, taking initiative with job-related demands, demonstrating innovative thinking and sound planning with business practices, managing individual performance toward shared organizational goals, and thinking strategically to set and accomplish goals.
• Other key characteristics: the ideal candidate must demonstrate integrity and accountability, always remaining flexible, adaptable, and willing to accept coaching, building, and managing professionally healthy relationships, and continually developing awareness of business-related topics. It is very important that the successful candidate is willing to roll up their sleeves and get heavily involved in the delivery of client work in the early days, until more junior members of the tax team are recruited.

Qualifications:

• Ten plus years of corporate tax experience with some of this time ideally spent in the Big 4.
• Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA) required; additional tax qualification (e.g. CTA) strongly desired.

What is on offer for the successful Tax Managing Director?

• Salary is dependent on experience and will range from £150k to £175k
• LTIPS
• Bonus
• Commission
• Pension
• 25 days holidays + bank holidays
• Flexible working / Hybrid

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