Menzies is a top 30 UK accountancy and advisory firm, proudly ranked one of the Times Best Places to Work 2025. With over 10,000 professionals across our UK offices, we’ve built a people‑first culture that blends technical excellence with genuine care for our clients and each other.
Menzies is an equal opportunities employer which means that we recruit, employ, train, pay, and promote regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
This role is within the Business and Corporate Tax team, responsible for delivering a mix of compliance and tax advisory services to owner‑managed companies and large international groups across diverse industries.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of business tax clients, ensuring compliance requirements are met, building relationships, and identifying areas where Menzies can assist the client.
- Deliver tax advice and tax advisory projects in collaboration with colleagues across multiple Menzies business tax teams and other service lines.
- Identify wider opportunities and introduce other specialists within the firm.
- Assist with training and management of the business tax team.
- Advise and assist owner‑managed businesses (OMB) on succession planning, remuneration planning, timing of capital expenditure, and capital allowances planning.
- Maintain a working knowledge of tax areas affecting entrepreneurs, such as Business Asset Disposal Relief and Business Property Relief.
- Support entrepreneurial businesses throughout their lifecycle—including protecting and leveraging IP, determining the right business structure, incentivising staff, and expanding internationally.
- Advise on tax elements of equity incentivisation, such as the EMI option scheme.
- Engage in networking, proposal development, and growth of the corporate tax portfolio.
- Identify opportunities for tax planning, risk mitigation, and cross‑selling between service lines to provide proactive, effective client service.
- Train and mentor junior colleagues within the Business Tax team.
- Ensure the firm’s technical, ethical, risk, and compliance procedures are adhered to in all cases.
Qualifications & Skills
- Qualified accountant and/or CIOT qualified tax adviser with at least one year’s post‑qualified experience in a tax‑related role.
- Experience working with corporate and entrepreneurial clients, managing at an assistant manager or manager level.
- Corporate tax technical and practical knowledge.
- Good knowledge of tax issues affecting owner‑managed businesses and their shareholders.
- Knowledge of other business taxes and tax reporting processes is preferable but not essential.
- Knowledge of UK accounting standards and competence in interpreting accounts and other financial information.
- Strong IT skills, including MS Office and databases; AlphaTax experience is ideal but not essential.
- Strong communication and organisational skills.
Job Benefits
- People‑first culture with agile working and generous leave.
- Work with a broad portfolio of inspiring clients.
- Collaborate across borders through the HLB International network, delivering global tax solutions.
- Innovation‑focused environment leveraging technology, simplifying complexity, and delivering value.
- Empathy‑driven relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Career development opportunities through learning programmes and career coaching.
- Competitive benefits including private medical cover, pension matching, and enhanced parental leave.
- Flexibility that works for you via embedded agile working.
- Perks that go beyond—volunteering days, wellbeing initiatives, and more.
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