Corporate Tax Manager / Assistant Manager

In a nutshell

Are you looking to develop your career and become a specialist Corporate Tax Advisor?

Joining our Business Tax department you'll work across a range of sectors, providing a mix of tax compliance and advisory services to a wide range of corporate clients – typically groups with a turnover between £50m and £500m.  

With an extensive team around you, our Tax department is led by 14 Tax partners and comprises of 150 staff spread over our nine offices who work collaboratively across a multi-discipline of taxes. 

What you'll be doing day to day

At assistant manager/manager level, you will work across a range of specialisms, supporting senior managers, directors and partners in delivering projects. Examples of work you would be involved in include:

• Scoping and pricing new projects
• Preparing risk assessments to identify key tax issues to be considered
• Liaising directly with clients and engagement teams to understand and document legal, accounting and commercial background to engagements
• Drafting tax advice for review by senior team members
• Seeking clearances and advance assurance from HMRC
• Reviewing transaction documents for consistency with tax advice given
• Working alongside our corporate transactions team, reviewing target company information and preparing transaction due diligence reports
• Managing clients’ corporate tax compliance and tax accounting cycles, including preparation of complex corporation tax returns, reviewing returns prepared by junior staff and working closely with audit colleagues
• Monitoring project budgets and preparing fees

About you

• Good level of post qualification experience in a tax environment, with exposure to a range of complex assignments, or able to demonstrate equivalent
• CTA and / or ACA / ACCA qualified (or willing to work towards the CTA qualification)
• Experience of public practice, with the competence to deal with managing a portfolio of corporate tax clients
• Excellent interpersonal skills – able to deal with people at all levels
• Self-motivated and able to show initiative
• Accurate and able to work well under pressure
• Good problem-solving skills
• Sociable and enjoys being part of a wider team

Why work at PKF Francis Clark

We’re the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisors in South West England. We have nine offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro.

The firm, which celebrated its centenary in 2019, has annual revenue of over £65 million and a 900-strong team based across our offices. Our continuing growth offers you the opportunity to expand and develop your career in a direction that interests you.

We offer a supportive and flexible culture, taking your career seriously to enable you to be the best you can be. Since September 2022, PKF Francis Clark has been certified as a Great Place to Work.

We work hard to ensure that ours is a culture where you can be yourself, develop and be part of a forward-thinking team that makes brilliant things happen. We ranked as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in 2023, and again in 2024 when we rose nine places to 24^th in the list of the UK’s Best Workplaces (Large Organisations).

We’ve also been ranked 46^th out of 89 in the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women 2023 (Large Organisations) and 40^th out of 79 in the UK’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing 2023 (Large Organisations). PKF Francis Clark has been highlighted as a top achiever among the UK’s Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services by workplace culture experts Great Place to Work.

And in recognition of our outstanding training programmes for graduates, school leavers and career changers, we’re ranked 28^th among England’s Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers by the Department of Education and High Fliers Research.

Whilst we’re proudly independent, PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of  firms, which together are ranked as the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK by Accountancy Age. As part of a global community of business advisors in 150 countries, the opportunities to expand your horizons by connecting with PKF colleagues around the world are endless.

Your core benefits 

Financial benefits:
•    Pension
•    Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
•    Group income protection
•    Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare 

Health & Wellbeing benefits:
•    Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
•    Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
•    Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
•    Cycle to work*

Other benefits:
•    Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
•    Gifts for career and family milestones
•    One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
•    Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation 

Please note
* These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee’s post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.