Tax Reporting Senior Manager

Mazars is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.  

 About the team

‘I have been with Mazars for just over 5 years and what makes Mazars different is the friendliness of our team and the willingness of everyone in the team to help and collaborate on getting the right advice to our clients.  We also have a strong culture in helping staff to achieve their long-term goals at their pace.‘ (Ludovic Black, Tax partner, Milton Keynes) 

 We provide bespoke advice in all areas of taxation, helping our clients to navigate the complexities of tax codes, often in multiple areas of sector jurisdictions, and to help them ensure they are fulfilling all their obligations and paying the correct amount of tax.  In this way we help them to manage an area of significant financial and reputational risk and to make properly informed decisions about their tax position whether they are an individual, a business owner or a corporate organisation. We also help clients resolve any disputes they have with the tax authorities as swiftly as possible.

About the role

Your role as a senior manager/ manager in our National Tax Reporting team will include:

• Building long-term relationships across a portfolio of clients which you will have responsibility for managing.
• Leading the Milton Keynes-based Tax Reporting team, providing guidance, coaching and training to junior staff members to help them maximise their career opportunities.
• Reviewing and approving corporation tax computations and tax accounting, as well as undertaking some tax assurance reviews.  Involved in ad-hoc advisory work that flows naturally from your Reporting responsibilities. 
• Negotiating and raising timetables and fees and being responsible for WIP management on your portfolio of clients. 
• Proactively talking to clients about tax opportunities which may be relevant to them, and working with the tax partners, and wider tax team to deliver on such work. 
• Being an active member to national Tax Reporting Team, ensure national procedures are rolled out and fully adopted in Milton Keynes.

What are we looking for?

• Extensive experience of working with a portfolio of clients to deliver on annual Tax Reporting requirements.
• Demonstrate broad and strong technical tax knowledge and experience.
• Works effectively as part of a larger team, who proactively manages all team members. 
• Broad experience of managing the financials on clients, setting timetables delivering on budgets and negotiating fees with clients.
• Experience of identifying opportunities for business development on tax clients (and ideally across other service lines).
• Willingness to take on leadership roles both within Milton Keynes and across the wider Tax reporting team.
• Responsible for assisting the development of more junior staff through coaching

Mazars & Me

We want everyone to be rewarded and enriched by their professional life. So we come together to pioneer new ways of working; promoting psychological safety, flexibility with how you work – trusting you to make the right choices for the team, clients and the business – and balance in stimulating modern workspaces. We offer core benefits and then give people the opportunity to tailor extra benefits to suit their individual needs.

Our office in Milton Keynes is one of the larger accounting practices in the city and within Mazars in the UK.  We are based at The Pinnacle building, a mere five-minute walk from the train station, in the heart of the city's business district.  We offer a full range of professional services from this office to regional, national and international businesses of all sizes, across a range of sectors and industries, as well as private individuals.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self and provided with a level playing field. To read more about our approach click here