Tax Director

I’m working on a broad in-house tax leadership role sitting within a sizeable privately-held business. The mandate spans day-to-day compliance ownership through to shaping the group’s longer-term tax governance and risk posture, a genuine mix of technical delivery and strategic input.

• Build out and embed a robust tax governance and controls framework group-wide
• Run periodic risk reviews to surface exposure areas and tighten controls
• Own reconciliation between tax filings, management accounts and statutory reporting
• Take the lead on tax disclosures within the group’s statutory accounts

• Hold end-to-end responsibility for corporation tax, VAT, CIS, withholding tax and property tax compliance across a multi-entity structure
• Act as the group’s main contact for HMRC — enquiries, disclosures, compliance reviews
• Take a hands‑on role on the more technically complex or higher-risk filings, while overseeing the rest across all entities

• Support M&A activity, refinancing and group restructuring from a tax angle
• Feed into tax planning work — capital allowances, group relief, loss utilisation, interest restriction rules, deal structuring
• Track legislative and case law developments and translate the impact for the business
• Work closely alongside the CFO, finance leadership, and external advisers on significant matters

• Line manage and develop a junior tax team member
• Deliver tax training across finance and non-finance functions to raise wider awareness
• Drive ongoing improvement of tax processes, systems and reporting

• ACA and/or CTA qualified
• 5+ years’ PQE within a large or complex corporate environment
• Comfortable holding your own with senior stakeholders — able to influence and push back where needed
• Strong technical base across corporation tax, VAT, CIS and property tax
• Direct experience dealing with HMRC, auditors and external advisers
• Office-based five days