Corporate Tax Senior Manager - Real Estate - Big 4

Key clients: Real Estate and Private Equity funds, REITs, Sovereign Wealth funds and Family Offices of High Net Worth individuals.

The team provides a wide range of tax compliance support to help ensure clients comply with their UK tax obligations in an efficient and timely manner. You will develop strong relationships with clients, becoming a trusted advisor and will build an understanding of how different types of Real Estate businesses and structures operate. This role brings together expertise in compliance, associated technology solutions and real estate tax technical experience.

Essential requirements:

• Enthusiasm for knowledge acquisition in UK taxation specifically
• The ability to take responsibility for and manage a portfolio of clients ensuring that deliverables are submitted within the required timeframe
• The ability and drive to work collectively in a team and invest in their own development as well as a willingness to share suggestions of improved ways of working
• The ability to work closely with and build great relationships both with clients and internal teams, applying practical and commercial concepts to technical work
• The ability to learn new tax concepts and apply them within time constraints
• Strong communication and written skills
• The desire and motivation to advance your career in Real Estate Tax Compliance
• The desire to be challenged and stretched

This Real Estate tax advisory and compliance team have a market leading reputation in London, across Europe and globally. They are the largest of the Big 4 tax in both process and technology departments and Real estate taxation. Given some recent legislative changes to the taxation of UK Real Estate demand for our services is growing rapidly. We are looking for an individual who can add their qualities to a growth mindset and high client experience focused team bringing together expertise in compliance, associated technology solutions and real estate tax technical experience.

Joining the Real Estate Tax Compliance Team and working alongside RE transactions & advisory teams will give you access to senior leadership across the myriad of investors in UK Real Estate, including Real Estate and Private Equity funds, REITs, Sovereign Wealth funds and Family Offices of High Net Worth individuals. By working closely with Partners, Directors and Senior Managers in the group it will allow you to develop and learn how to build such relationships whilst enhancing your own personal portfolio and networks.

The team provides a wide range of tax compliance support to help ensure clients comply with their UK tax obligations in an efficient and timely manner. You will develop strong relationships with clients, becoming a trusted advisor and will build an understanding of how different types of Real Estate businesses and structures operate. We are increasingly extending our proposition for clients to include a global and bundled service solution for real asset funds hence expect the opportunities to work with the wider network to increase.

You will be required to undertake a comprehensive list of duties in a role that will hopefully challenge and stretch you on a daily basis including, but not limited to:

• Assisting Real Estate investors to comply with their UK direct tax obligations in an efficient and timely manner.
• Advising clients on the impact of recent changes in legislation as they apply to Real Estate investors (such as the new Real Estate Investment Trust relaxation rules).
• Responding to tax enquiries from HMRC.
• Assisting with the transformation of the annual tax process through process improvement, technology, risk and organisational design.
• Planning and managing the implementation of identified technology solutions.
• Working effectively individually and with colleagues to deliver these solutions and develop the team.
• Managing client accounts and effective delivery.

Your professional experience:

Essential:

• Knowledge of typical traditional regulated and alternative fund structures, as well as their general taxation
• The ability to manage a portfolio of clients and projects simultaneously, as well as managing junior staff
• The ability and drive to work collectively in a team and invest in the development of junior team members
• The ability to work closely with clients, applying practical and commercial concepts to technical work
• The ability to manage and co-ordinate input from international and cross services line teams
• The ability to learn new tax concepts and apply them within time constraints
• Strong communication and written skills
• The desire and motivation to advance your career in financial services
• The desire to be challenged and stretched

Desirable:

• ACA/CTA qualification desirable

As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.