We are seeking to recruit an experienced Senior Corporate Tax Lawyer to lead
our Corporate tax offering. Working collaboratively with our Corporate Team
and UK Tax & Succession Team, you will be supported to extend and enhance
existing and new relationships with clients and referrers. We're flexible as
to your preferred office location, and could be based from Bristol,
Southampton, Plymouth or Exeter with a blend of home and office working to
meet with business, client and team needs.
**What you'll do**
As an experienced Tax Lawyer, you will be accustomed to working closely with
clients to translate complex tax matters into easy to understand, accessible
language and advice which is relevant to them and their specific
circumstances. You'll be personally motivated to support businesses of all
sizes, providing them with a clear and proportionate understanding of tax
systems and ensuring proper tax compliance. Our team currently provides advice
to an impressive client list, ranging from PLC's to owner managed businesses,
entrepreneurs, property investors and developers and private equity houses and
their portfolio companies. The work undertaken on a daily basis includes
advising on corporate restructurings/reorganisations, all aspects of M&A work,
investor tax planning, employment taxation, employee incentivisation and real
estate structuring.
Looking ahead, we're confident that there are real opportunities for greater
and more effective collaboration across the firm, with genuine scope for
growth with the right person leading the team. We will actively encourage and
support you to build new and deepen existing relationships with our clients,
as well as developing and leading a Corporate tax team through recruitment or
development of existing talent within the firm.
**What we're looking for**
With proven experience and a genuine understanding and enthusiasm for advising
on complex tax issues, you will be seeking an opportunity to work with a
collaborative and proactive team where delivering an exceptional client
experience is at the heart of what we do. We work pragmatically and
empathetically with our clients to identify and address the key issues for
them and develop lasting relationships as a result. You might already be
leading a team, or perhaps are seeking the opportunity to step up into a more
prominent role in a progressive and ambitious firm, where you can work to
shape your team and its profile within the business and wider community.
Technically strong, you may have already achieved Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA)
status or be working towards it. You appreciate the importance of keeping up
to date with the latest changes to ensure you can provide the most current and
relevant advice to clients and colleagues across other teams as needed. You
will be a good communicator and positive team contributor, possessing the
resilience and determination to work under pressure by organising yourself and
your time effectively to meet deadlines as required. In terms of career
development and scope for progression, we actively facilitate and encourage
further development of skills and technical knowledge at every level,
including Partner, which helps us to give our clients the very best service.
We're flexible on location and your chosen office base, as the quality of work
on offer is not constricted by these aspects, given that the tax team supports
clients and colleagues across all sectors and office locations.
The successful applicant will be required to complete a pre-employment
screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check.
If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please
do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team. Contact
us at recruitment.team@footanstey.com and we will come back to you as soon as
we can.
**Our offer to you**
In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as
well as professional development. Tailored to match the level you're working
at, we encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching
and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm
and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our
weekly Lifestyle Hour, along with private medical insurance for all lawyers,
28 days annual leave and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. Employees
can also buy holiday, managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated
portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most.
As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable
foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-
based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something
back where you feel it matters.
**Why Foot Anstey?**
As one of the UK's fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping
our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting
opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by
understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to
deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are
enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as
what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another
every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us
apart.
Over our history we've grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional
and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly
across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy &
Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy
of gaining market share through meeting clients' needs, investing in and
developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance
our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from eight
locations: Bristol, Southampton, Exeter, Truro, Plymouth, Taunton, and
London, as well as a 'hub' base in Oxford.
Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We
actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering
meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed
to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support
and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital
Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to
create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-
thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our
vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible
working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will
enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our
strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard
for a second time in 2021. We consider this to be right at the heart of our
priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider
across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging
staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support
our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background,
gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We
champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such
we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people,
regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role
you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring
questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain
entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your
application.
Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.
