Senior Director/Executive Director in London

Corporate Finance Group, Inc. (CFGI) is an established industry leader with the resources to successfully navigate today’s complex accounting, reporting, compliance and tax landscape. We provide our clients with a unique combination of integrity, flexibility, creative solutions, and deep tax technical expertise. We offer a flexible career progression model that allows for a variety of challenging opportunities throughout your career.

In 2022, CFGI opened its London office (its first outside the US) and achieved fantastic revenue in the first full year of trading, primarily derived from the accounting advisory practice. In January 2023, the UK tax practice was formed, and the UK tax partner is looking to quickly assemble a high-quality team of tax professionals to grow the tax business and provide clients with exceptional and differentiated service.

CFGI seeks a highly motivated tax managing director to lead its UK M&A tax offering. This position reports directly to the Partner-in-Charge of Tax and will require an in-depth knowledge of taxation as it relates to strategic private equity and corporate transactions in the mergers and acquisitions lifecycle. Our Transactions Tax specialists provide a variety of services, such as tax due diligence reviews (buy-side and sell-side), advice relating to private equity and similar structures, vendor assistance, and management tax planning. The successful candidate will work with business lines, service providers, and other tax professionals in fulfilling their responsibilities.

Initially, tax work is not expected to require 100% of the executive’s time for project management and billable work, as they will be asked to do other tasks including:

• Interviewing and recruiting new tax team members to work under their direction.
• Leading M&A tax projects in accordance with the firm’s standard procedures and agreed arrangements with the client, including costs and billing logistics.
• Performing tax due diligence reviews, tax structuring, tax modelling, and various other pre- and post-deal services.
• Supporting in strategic targeting and business development activity, particularly in the private equity space, with the Tax Partner.
• Acting as a people manager, including delegation and taking an active role in individuals’ training and career development via on-the-job coaching, delivering formal training, and carrying out requested feedback and career conversations.

Strong expertise in tax due diligence, structuring, fund flows, and SPA review, ideally with private equity clients is required. Exposure to portfolio company tax work, UK and cross-border tax planning, and withholding tax is preferred. Ten plus years of M&A tax experience in the Big-4 and/or next tier UK accounting firms is necessary. Significant experience of operating as a Senior Manager or Associate Director level (or equivalent) is essential. Up-to-date knowledge of Transactions Tax, in a specialist capacity or as a Corporate Tax professional is required.

Other key areas to consider: the ideal candidate must demonstrate integrity and accountability, always remaining flexible, adaptable, and willing to accept coaching, building and managing professionally healthy relationships, and continually developing awareness of business-related topics. Leadership skills that display good judgment and certainty in decision making, taking initiative with job-related demands, demonstrating innovative thinking and sound planning with business practices, managing individual performance toward shared organizational goals, and thinking strategically to set and accomplish goals are essential.

A Bachelor’s degree in accounting with a preference for holding an accounting or tax professional certification (ATII, CTA, ideally along with an ACA, ACCA) is required.

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