Head of M&A Tax - Advisory

Performance based incentive of up to 50% of basic salary Potential total earnings of £150,000-£195,000

This is not a role built around maintaining a narrow technical remit or reviewing transactions from a distance.

It is an opportunity to lead live M&A work, advise successful entrepreneurs and help build a specialist service within an independent advisory firm that is developing its offering around what clients actually need.

Led by a founder recognised in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe, the firm has doubled its revenue in each of the past four years. Its growth has been driven by bringing tax, strategic advisory and wealth management closer together around the wider commercial and personal decisions faced by successful business owners.

That approach is now being developed through four specialist tax departments: M&A Tax, Corporate Tax, International Tax and Private Client Tax. Each department will have its own Head of Department, reporting to the Tax Director and supported by Managers, Assistant Managers and Associates.

M&A is already a live and growing area within the firm. An established tax advisory team is delivering complex work for existing clients, including four live transactions involving businesses with turnover ranging from approximately £10 million to £60 million.

The next step is to appoint a Head of M&A Tax who can lead that work, develop the department and help connect it to the wider advisory platform being built around the firm's clients.

As part of the wider advisory platform being built around the firm, its owner is currently launching a paid, selective private members' club for successful founders and entrepreneurs. Membership is for business owners whose companies generate at least £1 million of EBITDA, and the club already has a waiting list.

Membership includes direct access to the tax advisory team, alongside private dinners, high-profile speakers and exceptional UK and international experiences.

This is directly relevant to the M&A opportunity. The club is creating trusted relationships with business owners who may need advice on acquisitions, investment, restructuring, sale and the next phase of their personal wealth. The M&A team will sit within those relationships, with its advice connected to the wider commercial decisions those founders are making.

The firm also has an established partnership with a private wealth-management business overseeing approximately £4 billion of assets. That relationship adds another important dimension to the advice being developed around successful business owners, their companies and their personal wealth.

The founder has personally created and organised an exclusive upcoming event on Sir Richard Branson's private Necker Island. It sold out within two weeks, generated an extensive waiting list and will bring together entrepreneurs representing approximately £3 billion in combined wealth.

The scale and quality of these relationships are important because they create access to the people behind the businesses. For the M&A team, that means working with founders who are acquiring companies, raising investment, restructuring groups, preparing for sale or deciding what comes next.

This sits alongside significant investment in a wider Strategic and Business Advisory team, with further Corporate Finance and Debt Advisory capabilities also being developed.

Together, these services are creating a connected advisory platform capable of supporting founders through growth, investment, acquisition, sale and the decisions that follow.

You will lead complex acquisitions, disposals and restructuring projects, advising founders and business owners on the tax implications of important commercial…