Job Description

CharteredPartners is seeking a Tax Partner to lead and grow a corporate tax practice within a prominent accounting firm in Hong Kong. The successful candidate will hold full origination responsibility, owning a personal client and revenue portfolio, signing tax opinions and providing strategic leadership across the tax function. This is a senior appointment combining business development, profit-and-loss accountability and technical authority across Hong Kong profits tax, the territorial source principle and the evolving international tax landscape. Specific qualifications, regulatory fluency and technical breadth are detailed in the sections that follow.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new accounting-firm practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step. With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented accounting, audit, tax and advisory professionals to make safe, well-judged moves into rewarding new roles, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Originate new business, building and converting a pipeline of corporate and multinational tax clients across Hong Kong and the wider region.
• Hold profit-and-loss accountability for the practice, managing revenue, margin, billing and resource planning.
• Sign tax opinions and assume ultimate technical responsibility for advice on Hong Kong profits tax and cross-border matters.
• Provide strategic leadership to the tax team, setting direction, standards and quality benchmarks.
• Advise clients on the two-tier profits tax regime (8.25% and 16.5%) and the application of the territorial source principle.
• Lead on the foreign-sourced income exemption (FSIE) regime and Pillar Two obligations, including the income inclusion rule and the Hong Kong minimum top-up tax.
• Act as a trusted adviser to boards and senior stakeholders on structuring, IRD engagement and stamp duty planning.
• Develop senior managers and directors, building bench strength and succession within the practice.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• A recognised professional accounting or tax qualification, with HKICPA membership strongly preferred.
• Extensive post-qualification experience in Hong Kong corporate and international tax, including a sustained period at director or partner level.
• A demonstrable record of business origination and the development of a personal client following.
• Authoritative command of Hong Kong profits tax, the territorial source principle and the absence of VAT or GST.
• Deep understanding of the foreign-sourced income exemption regime and its practical application.
• Strong working knowledge of Pillar Two mechanics, including the IIR and the Hong Kong minimum top-up tax.
• Proven experience signing tax opinions and carrying ultimate technical responsibility.
• Established relationships across the Hong Kong and regional business community.
• Profit-and-loss leadership experience, with the commercial acuity to manage a practice.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills at board level.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience advising multinational groups headquartered in or operating through Hong Kong.
• Familiarity with IRD advance ruling processes and dispute resolution.
• Exposure to mergers, acquisitions and group reorganisations with significant tax complexity.
• A track record of building and leading high-performing tax teams.
• Involvement in thought leadership, industry forums or professional bodies.
• Experience advising on stamp duty and cross-border financing structures.

Compensation:

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track participation.

Next Steps:

This opportunity is open to Hong Kong permanent residents and candidates eligible to obtain the relevant Hong Kong employment visa who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist accounting-firm recruitment consultant.

Chartered Partners is a trading style of Feltan Associates Pte Ltd; an international Executive Search, Recruitment and Consulting business based in Singapore, licensed and regulated by the Singapore Ministry of Manpower to conduct recruitment services for clients. UEN: 202225620G. EA Licence 23S1672. All rights reserved.