Job Description

CharteredPartners is seeking a Tax Senior Manager to join a leading accounting firm in London. The successful candidate will manage corporate tax compliance and advisory engagements end to end, acting as the principal day-to-day contact for a varied client base and supervising the work of the wider team. This is a hands-on delivery and supervision role spanning UK corporation tax compliance, advisory delivery and HMRC engagement across an active international tax agenda. 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:

• Manage corporate tax compliance engagements end to end, overseeing computations, returns and HMRC filings to deadline.
• Deliver practical advisory work spanning group structuring, R&D relief and cross-border transactions.
• Apply the 25% corporation tax regime and VAT at 20% accurately across the portfolio.
• Support transfer pricing and diverted profits documentation and analysis.
• Act as the principal day-to-day client contact, managing timelines, queries and expectations.
• Supervise, review and develop managers and junior staff, providing technical coaching and quality control.
• Assist with the assessment of Pillar Two multinational top-up tax obligations under director and partner direction.
• Support engagement economics through budgeting, billing and work-in-progress management.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• A recognised professional qualification, with ICAEW membership, Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) status and / or ATT preferred.
• Solid post-qualification experience in UK corporate tax within a public accounting firm or comparable environment.
• Strong working knowledge of UK corporation tax at 25% and VAT at 20%.
• Experience managing corporate tax compliance cycles and HMRC correspondence.
• Practical familiarity with R&D relief, capital allowances and group relief.
• Working knowledge of transfer pricing and diverted profits documentation requirements.
• A developing command of Pillar Two multinational top-up tax and its UK application.
• Proven ability to manage multiple engagements concurrently while maintaining technical quality.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with client stakeholders.
• Experience supervising and reviewing the work of junior team members.

Preferred Experience:

• Exposure to clients across financial services, technology, real estate or industrial sectors.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions or group restructures.
• Familiarity with IR35 and employment-tax interactions.
• Involvement in transfer pricing documentation projects.
• A track record of contributing to proposals and practice development.
• Experience coaching and mentoring within a structured review framework.

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 candidates holding or eligible for the right to work in the United Kingdom who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist accounting-firm recruitment consultant.

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