Transaction Tax Director (3220)

Transaction Tax Director (3220)

MAZARS LIMITED Birmingham, United Kingdom

Forvis Mazars is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

There are currently opportunities arising as part of our continued expansion of the transaction taxes team. Our team is building on years of continued growth, with a specific focus for recruiting the right individuals to support our clients through all stages of transactions.

We are a rapidly growing team which has meant we have opportunities at the director level in particular to help shape and accelerate our exciting plans over the next 5 years. Our profile has increased and, with it, our pipeline of work in the M&A tax space. We are looking for enthusiastic, driven individuals who are keen to take a role that allows for leadership, develop existing and new relationships and helping others in the team achieve their personal objectives.

Job Purpose

As a Transactions tax director, you will be responsible for leading our teams in providing the full range of tax due diligence and M&A structuring services to our clients.

The role will involve covering both domestic and international clients, providing an opportunity for those with both purely UK and cross-border experience.

We would expect the right candidate to have significant experience working in transactions taxes. They may also have experience in leadership and strategy development. However, this role could also be a good opportunity for the right person to step into their first leadership role, with the ability to build a future partnership case.

Role & Responsibilities

Based on the current team requirements, the role will comprise the following elements:

Service delivery – Due diligence

• Responsible for the overall delivery of complex tax due diligence assignments, including leading on the provision of corporation tax due diligence services to our clients.
• Liaising with colleagues in VAT, employment taxes, other specialist tax services, and teams from other Mazars group countries to project manage the overall tax due diligence services.
• Working collaboratively with our transaction services team to go to market and successfully win new combined financial and tax due diligence projects.
• Building client relationships through engagements and proactively pursuing opportunities identified through due diligence assignments to support clients post-deal.

Service delivery – M&A structuring advice

• Leading on the provision of tax advisory structuring services to our clients, with responsibilities for successfully delivering complex tax advisory assignments.
• Being the main day-to-day point of contact on a portfolio of M&A tax advisory clients.
• Owning the overall client relationship, scoping assignments tailored to client\’s needs, negotiating fees.
• Coordinating with the deal advisory team to provide a seamless client service on combined M&A projects, both across other tax services and combined with our financial reporting and other advisory service teams.
• Ensuring our advice is properly reflected in all aspects of the transaction through communication with clients and their lawyers/other advisers.
• Collaborating across the wider tax, advisory, and consulting teams to identify opportunities, develop client relationships, and support other go-to-market initiatives.

Strategic and operational leadership

• Helping shape the future of the transactions tax team by designing and implementing growth strategies in collaboration with existing transaction tax partners.
• Enhancing deliverables and processes to drive quality, including supporting team training.
• Providing support for key team members\’ personal and professional development, including appraisals and performance management.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Holds relevant professional qualification such as ACA or CTA (or equivalent).
• Strong technical knowledge of key tax issues affecting companies and shareholders on a transaction.
• Experience in transactions.
• Strong project management skills, with a track record of leading teams on complex assignments.
• Ability to assist, share experience, provide meaningful feedback, and support the development of others.
• Broad experience managing client financials, monitoring performance, and negotiating fees.

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network operating under a single brand worldwide, with two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the US and Forvis Mazars Group SC internationally, in over 100 countries.

We are committed to providing an unmatched client experience across audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services. Our vision is to move our clients, people, industry, and communities forward, responding to emerging sustainability issues such as human rights, climate change, and environmental impacts.

We are a diverse, multicultural, and multi-generational team that values connection and belonging. We support individual ownership of careers, involvement, and idea implementation.

Our culture emphasizes inclusivity, and we are committed to accessibility and support throughout the recruitment process. Please contact us to discuss any specific needs.

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