Tax Knowledge Senior Manager

London | Hybrid working

Are you an experienced tax professional who enjoys the technical side of tax, developing others and translating complex issues into practical, engaging guidance?

This is a genuinely different Senior Manager opportunity within a large, highly regarded professional services firm, offering the chance to step away from traditional portfolio management while remaining at the heart of the tax profession.

Sitting within a specialist national Tax Knowledge function, you will play a key role in shaping the technical capability of the firm’s tax professionals across the UK. Rather than managing a conventional client portfolio, you will use your tax experience to influence how teams learn, develop and keep ahead of technical change.

It is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys tax technically but would like their next role to offer something broader than the traditional client-facing Senior Manager route.

The opportunity

Working with senior tax leaders and subject-matter experts across the firm, you will take ownership of initiatives designed to strengthen technical capability and professional development across the national tax practice.

You will have significant visibility across the business and the opportunity to influence how tax professionals, from those starting their careers through to experienced managers, develop their technical knowledge.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the development and continuous improvement of national tax technical learning programmes.
• Taking particular responsibility for technical development across the firm’s early-careers population.
• Identifying emerging technical and capability needs across the tax practice.
• Working with Partners, Directors and senior tax specialists to develop high-quality technical content and learning.
• Turning complex tax developments into clear, practical and engaging resources for tax professionals.
• Designing and facilitating technical training, induction and development programmes.
• Coordinating internal specialists and external training providers.
• Developing technical communications and knowledge resources.
• Assessing the effectiveness of existing learning and identifying opportunities to improve it.
• Helping shape the longer-term strategy for professional competence and technical development across Tax.

Why consider it?

What makes this opportunity particularly appealing is the breadth and influence of the position.

You will be working across a substantial national tax practice rather than being confined to one client portfolio or narrow technical area. You will have access to senior stakeholders and specialists across numerous areas of tax and the opportunity to influence how technical knowledge is shared across the business.

It could particularly suit someone who enjoys:

• The technical side of tax more than business development targets.
• Coaching, training and developing others.
• Researching and interpreting technical developments.
• Writing and communicating complex tax issues clearly.
• Working with senior stakeholders.
• Having a broader influence across a tax practice.

Importantly, this is not simply a training role. It is a senior tax position requiring credibility with experienced tax professionals and the ability to challenge, influence and work alongside senior stakeholders.

About you

You do not necessarily need previous experience in a dedicated Tax Knowledge role.

The firm is particularly interested in people who have developed their career within tax and can bring the technical credibility and practical understanding of client work needed to understand what tax professionals need to perform effectively.

You are likely to have:

• Strong tax experience gained within an accountancy or professional services environment.
• A broad understanding of tax and the practical realities of client-facing work.
• The ability to understand complex technical matters and communicate them simply.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• An interest in technical development, training, knowledge or people development.
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders, including Partners and Directors.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage several projects simultaneously.
• A proactive and collaborative approach.

You may currently be operating at Manager or Senior Manager level and could come from corporate tax, private client, international tax or another tax specialism where you have developed broad technical credibility.

A different direction for your tax career

For someone who has reached Manager or Senior Manager level and is questioning whether the traditional progression route of larger portfolios, increasing business development targets and eventual Partner progression is right for them, this offers a compelling alternative.

You can retain your position as a senior tax professional while building a career around technical excellence, knowledge, learning and the development of others.

You will join a collaborative environment with access to a considerable depth of tax expertise and the opportunity to build relationships with senior tax professionals across the UK.

The firm supports hybrid and agile working and offers strong long-term career development for someone looking to establish themselves as a senior specialist within tax knowledge and professional development.

If you are an experienced tax professional who loves the technical side of the profession and wants to use that expertise differently, this is a rare opportunity to shape how an entire national tax practice develops.

If this role is of interest, please reach out for a confidential conversation [email protected]

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