Corporate & Business Tax Senior Manager

About the Firm

Mercer & Hole is a well‑established practice with 28 partners and offices in London, St Albans, Milton Keynes & Rickmansworth. We provide a highly professional service with a strong commitment to personal attention, serving owner‑managed businesses, partnerships, sole traders, private companies, and subsidiaries of international groups.

An exciting role joining a high‑performing team. You will be responsible for an allocated portfolio of clients, build relationships, and ensure they receive a quality tax service delivered efficiently and effectively.

• Build relationships with a portfolio of clients in corporate and business tax.
• Understand clients’ issues and advise on compliance obligations, manage tax risk and HMRC relationships.
• Proactively discuss tax‑planning opportunities, working with tax directors and partners to support delivery.
• Develop the wider team through technical education, soft‑skill development and on‑the‑job training; appraise and develop junior members.
• Negotiate and raise fees and manage WIP for your portfolio.
• Contribute to general management of the corporate and business tax department and attend regular management meetings.
• Assist with training of tax staff via on‑the‑job or regular technical updates.
• Appraise junior staff and support their development and performance.
• Respond to queries from our international network; provide support to partners on practice development, marketing, networking, website support, blogs, tweets and awareness of topical issues.
• Identify new opportunities within the client portfolio and collaborate with wider team to deliver additional services.

• ACA and/or CTA qualified.
• Ability to build excellent client relationships.
• Excellent communicator and relationship builder within a team.
• Extensive experience delivering annual corporation tax reporting requirements for a portfolio of clients.
• Experience dealing with complex groups and related tax challenges.
• Broad and strong technical tax knowledge; corporate tax priority, mixed knowledge a benefit.
• Ability to work within deadlines and deliver on agreed timescales.
• Experience identifying business‑development opportunities for tax clients, ideally across other service lines.
• Proficiency in Alphatax desirable but training available.

The successful candidate will be a qualified CTA, ACA or ACCA with post‑qualification experience in a business tax department of an accountancy practice. You must have strong written and verbal communication skills, strong organisation, time management, and be a flexible team worker who can share our focused client‑service ethic.

• Salary commensurate with experience.
• 28 days annual holiday.
• Contributory pension scheme under salary sacrifice.
• Life cover at 4× salary.
• Flexible working: open to full‑time and part‑time applicants.

Mercer & Hole is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.