Business Tax Manager

Department: Tax

Location: Manchester Office

Description: Why Menzies?
Menzies is a top 30 UK accountancy and advisory firm, proudly ranked one of the Times Best Places to Work 2025. With over 10000 professionals across our UK offices, we’ve built a people-first culture that blends technical excellence with genuine care—for our clients and each other.

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Collaborate and Connect – Work alongside tax, audit, and advisory teams across multiple service lines and offices.
🌟 Engage with Diverse Clients – From entrepreneurial owner-managed businesses to large corporates and international groups.
🌟 Grow with Purpose – You’ll be supported by experienced managers and tax partners, with clear opportunities for progression.
🌟 Flexibility that Works – Agile working and generous benefits are built into our culture of trust.

Menzies is an equal opportunities employer which means that we recruit, employ, train, pay, and promote regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or age. We are building a first-class team and, to do so, we know that we need a diverse mix of talented people doing their best work.

If you are ready to make an impact, lead with purpose, and work in a place where your voice truly matters, keep reading!

This is a key role within the Business and Corporate tax team and the successful candidate will be responsible for delivering a mixed role of compliance and tax advisory services across a diverse mix of owner managed companies as well as some large and international groups operating across a variety of industries.

• Manage a portfolio of business tax clients, ensuring compliance deadlines are met, building relationships, and identifying areas where Menzies can assist the client.
• Work on the delivery of tax advice and tax advisory projects in conjunction with colleagues across multiple Menzies business tax teams and service lines to provide an efficient and valued service.
• Identify wider opportunities and introduce other specialists across the firm.
• with training and management of the business tax team.
• Advising OMBs on succession planning, remuneration planning, timing of capital expenditure and capital allowances planning.
• Maintain a working knowledge of other areas of tax that affect entrepreneurs, such as Business Asset Disposal Relief and Business Property Relief.
• Support entrepreneurial businesses throughout their lifecycle, including protecting and leveraging IP, restructuring, determining the right business structure, incentivising staff, expanding internationally, and building shareholder value.
• Advise on the tax elements of equity incentivisation, such as the EMI option scheme.
• Proactively engage in networking, proposals and growing the corporate tax portfolio.
• Identify opportunities for tax planning, risk mitigation and cross‑selling between service lines.
• Train and mentor junior colleagues within the Business Tax Team.
• Ensure the firm’s technical, ethical, risk and compliance procedures are adhered to in all cases.

• Qualified accountant and/or CIOT qualified tax adviser with at least one year’s post‑qualified experience in a tax‑related role.
• Experience working with corporate and entrepreneurial clients and managing at an assistant manager or manager level.
• Corporate tax technical and practical knowledge.
• Good knowledge of tax issues affecting OMBs and their shareholders.
• Knowledge of other business taxes and tax reporting processes is preferable but not essential.
• Knowledge of UK accounting standards and competency in interpreting accounts and other financial information.
• Strong IT skills including MS Office and databases; alphatax ideal but not essential.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.

• Top 30 accountancy firm that values its people as much as its clients.
• Career development opportunities and coaching.
• Competitive benefits: private medical cover, pension matching, and enhanced parental leave.
• Agile working embedded in our culture.
• Volunteering days, wellbeing initiatives, and more.