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Head of Tax

Posted 3 days ago

  • Sheffield, South Yorkshire
  • Any
  • External
  • Expires In 3 months
Head of Tax
The Role
Gravitate are an Award Winning Digital Chartered Accountants with a focus on start-ups, scale-ups and growing businesses.
The firm have experienced a sustained and exceptional period of growth over the past few years, resulting in the becoming one of the regions most dynamic accountancy practices.
To enable the business to achieve their on-going success, they see the appointment of Head of Tax as a pivotal role within the firms senior management team.
As such the business are ideally looking for an ambitious individual who can both match the firms culture, growth and expansion strategy and to lead the firms tax offering.
The sucessful candidate has to be commercial, have a growth mindset in their approach and be able to sell themselves and the tax services utilising the Gravitate brand. The successful applicant would be part of the director board (i.e. decision makers)
Duties and Responsibilities
The role as Head of Tax will be responsible for a diverse portfolio of OMB clients, key responsibilities include:
Lead and oversee corporate tax advice
Lead company de-mergers
Lead company purchase of own shares transactions
Lead share for share exchange transactions
Lead in creation of Holdcos/Newcoso
Tax advice on MBOs, MBIs, acquisitions and business sales
Clearance letters
Tax due diligence work
Tax warranty and covenant reviews
Lead and oversee incentive schemes e.g. EMIs, share options, growth shares
Manage a small portfolio of tax compliance work (for large clients only)
Assist the internal team with corporate and personal tax matters (but not lead or manage the client)
Assist the internal team with complex Corporation tax computations and capital allowance queries (role as sense check only)
Skills and Qualities
The successful candidate will ideally be ACA/ACCA and CTA qualified with an advanced knowledge of corporate and personal tax, which will include incentive schemes and corporate restructuring advice (that will dovetail with CF advice).
Experience will have ideally been developed within a comparative firm or Top 50 accountancy practice.
The business are looking to appoint an individual who has the ability to assist in driving this already successful firm forward and to play an integral part of leading the tax division and wider business matters.
They are looking for an ambitious individual who is looking for a Partnership/Director role, therefore encourage applications from Senior Managers or Directors who currently have limitations on progression within their current business or ambitious CTA qualified tax professionals who are looking for an opportunity of working with a dynamic, highly progressive accountancy firm.
Salary Package
A highly competitive salary
Option for minority shareholding
Market leading benefits package
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Justin Barber at Barber McLelland Ltd on 07949 972677.All calls and correspondence will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

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