Corporate Tax Manager

As a Corporate Tax Manager, you will be expected to build and maintain relationships with our corporate client base, whilst ensuring all corporate tax compliance requirements are met in a time effective and efficient manner.

You will be predominantly responsible for conducting corporate tax compliance work on a varied portfolio, consisting mainly of owner managed businesses, however, regular opportunities to work on advisory projects will be available if desired.

You will be a key member of the Nottingham tax team and as part of your role, it is essential that you build strong internal relationships with colleagues from other service lines (including audit and our specialist tax advisory teams), to ensure that our clients receive the highest standard of service.

Your role will also include the supervision of junior members of the corporate tax team, and you will be expected to play a key role in their development.

The important work you will be doing:

• Your day-to-day duties and key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Acting as a key point of contact within the firm for our corporate compliance clients including anticipating client requests/needs, maintaining regular contact, and keeping them informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service provided
• Taking responsibility for managing the compliance process across our portfolio of corporate tax clients, including control of fee raising and cash collection where necessary
• Reviewing the work prepared by junior members of the team
• Liaising with HMRC on any client enquiries
• Ensuring that any assignments for which you are responsible are completed within the agreed budget, whilst keeping the client and Tax Partners informed of overruns
• Identifying risks, technical issues, and any planning opportunities, to be raised with the Tax Partners, whilst exercising judgement within agreed parameters
• Participating in bids/proposals for new client opportunities

The skills and experience you will bring:

• CTA qualified with 2 years post qualification experience
• Significant corporate tax experience on a range of compliance projects, gained within a practice environment
• Positive approach and a passion for client service
• Strong prioritisation and organisational skills in meeting deadlines along with attention to detail
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication across all business levels

Why PKF Smith Cooper?

• Our company culture, built on our values – Engage, Empower and Excel – encourages initiative, personal growth, and collaboration. Every team member is appreciated and celebrated; a notion embodied in our Kudos Reward Scheme
• The firm’s Partners, who remain actively invested in the development of employees, will both support and champion your professional development and progression
• We work with ambitious businesses of different sizes across a variety of sectors, so no two jobs are the same
• We are multi-award-winning accountants and business advisors, ranked the 11th biggest firm by UK fee income in the Accountancy Age Top 50+50

PKF International

As an active member of PKF International, we are part of a large global network of legally independent accounting firms.

Located in the 5 fastest growing global markets, we have ground presence in 150 countries and span across many jurisdictions.

An ambitious, future-focused network, PKF provides a comprehensive range of services. Operating in unison with member firms across the world, we are able to share our ideas, expertise, and specialist resources to better serve our clients, delivering highly-personalised services and global connectivity through our client-centric culture. 

What's in it for you?

Our benefits package has been designed around our people and shaped by our values. As part of Team PKF Smith Cooper, here are some of the things you can expect:

• A working environment that empowers you to perform at your best, through our flexible working policy and dress for your diary scheme
• Time to do what matters to you – 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays, the option to reduce annual hours for additional annual leave, and your birthday off, on us. Long-serving employees can also request a sabbatical, giving you the chance to make truly unforgettable memories
• Rewards for those who actively embrace and embody our values and culture through our Kudos Reward Scheme
• Regular social events and annual, company-wide away days, giving you the opportunity to engage with colleagues across your division and office, as well as the wider firm
• Bonus referral schemes for introducing new talent or clients so that when we benefit, you do too
• Life doesn’t stop at the end of the working day and neither do our benefits. We also offer life assurance, discounts on a huge variety of retailers through the PKF Smith Cooper Rewards Scheme, private medical insurance, and cashback on healthcare (including dental visits, physiotherapy etc) through Healthshield