Transaction Tax Director

As part of our continued growth strategy, we are seeking an experienced Transaction Tax Director to join our Corporate Tax team. This senior role will focus on advising clients across a broad range of transaction tax matters, including M&A, reorganisations, refinancing, and structuring. The successful candidate will play a key role in leading complex engagements, managing client relationships, and contributing to the development of our transaction tax offering.

You will work closely with entrepreneurs, private equity houses, corporates, and other stakeholders to deliver commercially focused tax advice.

This is a technically demanding and client-facing role. The successful candidate can expect to be involved in the following areas:

• Collaborating with internal partners to shape and execute our go-to-market strategy for transaction tax;
• Leading on a diverse portfolio of transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, demergers, and restructurings;
• Advising clients on tax implications of deal structures, due diligence, and post-transaction integration;
• Managing and developing strong relationships with corporate clients;
• Providing strategic tax advice that aligns with clients’ commercial objectives;
• Overseeing the delivery of high-quality technical work and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation;
• Supporting clients through HMRC interactions and negotiations where required;
• Contributing to the growth of the firm’s transaction tax capability through business development and thought leadership.

This role would suit a qualified individual (e.g. ACA/ACCA/CTA) with significant post-qualification experience in transaction tax, ideally gained in a professional services environment.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong UK tax technical expertise, particularly in transaction-related matters;
• Proven ability to deliver strategic tax advice in complex scenarios;
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to lead multiple engagements simultaneously;
• A commitment to high-quality client service and relationship building;
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills;
• A collaborative approach to working with colleagues across different teams;
• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior team members.

Our Corporate Tax team spans our 9 office locations and comprises 7 partners and over 100 professionals. The team advises a wide range of clients across sectors including financial services, real estate, technology, hospitality, and manufacturing. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, tailored tax advice with a strong commercial focus.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is a top priority for us. With our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we are building on our positive work culture and implementing initiatives to improve diversity and strengthen our equitable culture of inclusion, led from the top.

We hope you will apply to us, whatever your background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability or neurodivergence, because individual differences equal collective strength. Built on values of excellence, integrity, enthusiasm and collegiality, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.