Business Tax Manager/Senior Manager
Department: Tax
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Manchester Office
Description
Menzies is a top 30 UK accountancy and advisory firm, proudly ranked one of the Times Best Places to Work 2025. With over 10000 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.
We are 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 a key position within the Business and Corporate tax team. The successful candidate will deliver a mixed role of compliance and tax advisory services across a diverse mix of owner‑managed companies and large international groups operating across a variety of industries.
- Manage a portfolio of business tax clients, ensuring their compliance cycle is completed and deadlines met; build relationships and identify areas where Menzies can add value.
- Deliver tax advice and advisory projects in collaboration with colleagues across multiple Menzies business tax teams and other service lines.
- Identify wider opportunities and introduce other specialists across the firm.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of business tax clients, ensuring compliance requirements are met and relationships are strengthened.
- Assist with training and management of the business tax team.
- Advise OMBs on business and tax matters such as succession planning, remuneration planning, timing of capital expenditure, and capital allowances planning.
- Maintain a business‑tax focus while possessing working knowledge of other tax areas that affect entrepreneurs (e.g., Business Asset Disposal Relief, Business Property Relief).
- Support entrepreneurial businesses throughout their lifecycle, advising on IP protection, restructuring, business structure, staff incentives, international growth, and value building.
- Advise on equity incentive schemes such as EMI option schemes.
- Participate in networking, proposals, and growth of the corporate tax portfolio.
- Identify tax planning opportunities, risk mitigation, and cross‑selling between service lines.
- Train and mentor junior colleagues within the Business Tax Team.
- Ensure compliance with the firm’s technical, ethical, risk and compliance procedures.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Qualified accountant and/or CIOT qualified tax adviser with at least one year of post‑qualified experience in a tax‑related role.
- Experience working with corporate and entrepreneurial clients at an assistant manager or manager level.
- Corporate tax technical and practical knowledge.
- Good knowledge of tax issues affecting OMBs and their shareholders.
- Knowledge of other business taxes and tax reporting processes is preferable but not essential.
- Knowledge of UK accounting standards and ability to interpret accounts and financial information.
- Strong IT skills including MS Office and database use; alphatax knowledge ideal.
- Strong communication and organisational skills.
Job Benefits
- Private medical cover.
- Pension matching.
- Enhanced parental leave.
- Agile working and generous leave.
- Opportunity for career development and coaching.
- Volunteer days and wellbeing initiatives.
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