Corporation Tax Manager - London

Company Description

Xeinadin was established in 2019 when a number of leading business advisory and accountancy practices across the UK and Ireland came together to re-imagine the future of accountancy. Our collective mission to provide locally forged, trusted business advice to SMEs through forward-thinking, close-knit relationships remains pivotal to our growth. It's our people who drive our business forward, and we offer them future-focused career opportunities whilst supporting individual specialisms. Our regional offices of over 3000 colleagues operate collaboratively, combining collective expertise to maximise potential.

Description

We are looking for a Corporate Tax Manager to join our London-based tax team, working primarily with a portfolio of Owner Managed Businesses (OMBs), SMEs, and entrepreneurial clients across a range of sectors. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced tax professional who enjoys building strong client relationships, delivering high-quality tax compliance and advisory services, and supporting growing businesses through every stage of their lifecycle. The successful candidate will manage a varied portfolio of corporate tax clients, provide practical tax advice, identify planning opportunities, and contribute to the ongoing development of the tax team.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of corporate tax clients, primarily comprising OMBs, SMEs and privately owned businesses.
• Review and oversee the preparation of corporation tax returns and related compliance work, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Provide practical and commercially focused tax advice to clients on a variety of corporate tax matters.
• Identify and deliver tax planning opportunities for clients, including group structuring, capital allowances, shareholder planning, and business succession matters.
• Complete own portfolio of client work to provide industry leading insights and advice.
• Support clients through business lifecycle events such as acquisitions, disposals, restructures, and succession planning.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, acting as a trusted adviser to business owners and management teams.
• Liaise directly with clients, HMRC, and professional advisers on tax matters.
• Assist with managing tax enquiries and resolving technical issues as they arise.
• Work closely with accounting and advisory teams to provide integrated client solutions.
• Support the development of junior team members through coaching, mentoring and technical guidance.
• Contribute to business development activities, including identifying opportunities within the existing client portfolio and supporting new client pitches.
• Monitor changes in tax legislation and communicate their impact to clients and colleagues.
• Manage workloads effectively to ensure high standards of service delivery and profitability.
• Ensure that the team and colleagues live the Xeinadin Values.

Key Requirements

• CTA, ACA, ACCA, ATT or equivalent professional qualification.
• Significant experience in UK corporate tax gained within an accountancy practice environment.
• Experience managing a portfolio of corporate tax clients, ideally including OMBs and SMEs.

Additional Requirements

• Strong technical knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation.
• Experience advising owner-managed and privately owned businesses.
• Excellent client relationship and stakeholder management skills. · Commercially minded with the ability to provide practical, solutions-focused advice.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and report-writing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and priorities.
• Experience reviewing the work of junior team members and providing constructive feedback.
• Proactive, organised and detail-oriented approach.
• Commercial, analytical, driven, ethical, engaging, honest, decisive, professional, confident and strategic.

Benefits

Benefits

• Company Pension Scheme
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• Additional annual leave days from certain levels of seniority
• Ability to buy up to 5 days of annual leave to reach a maximum of 30 days per annum
• Business closure over Christmas*
• Life Assurance x4 annual salary
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 support, free and confidential
• Corporate Discounts Platform

Flexible Benefits platform with ability to opt-in to various insurances (level of seniority dependent & self-funded at corporate rates) such as:

• Critical Illness Cover
• Cash plan
• Cycle to work
• Eye care
• Dental

*subject to exceptions and business needs