Corporate Tax Manager / Direct Tax Specialist

M Group

Help shape the future of essential infrastructure.

At M Group, we do more than maintain infrastructure — we renew, improve, and reimagine it. Wherever you are in your career journey, this is a place where you can grow, contribute, and thrive.

We deliver essential infrastructure services that support everyday life, always with a safety-first mindset, a strong focus on clients and customers, and a culture that is friendly, respectful, and supportive.

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Why Join M Group?

M Group is involved in a wide range of critical infrastructure services, creating exciting opportunities across water, energy, transport, and telecoms.

Our Group Support teams play a vital role behind the scenes, enabling more than 11,000 colleagues to deliver seamless essential services across the UK.

If you’re looking to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation, this could be the perfect next step.

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The Opportunity

We are looking for a highly capable tax professional to take ownership of direct tax matters across M Group entities. This role offers the opportunity to combine technical expertise, strategic advisory work, and stakeholder partnership in a complex, multi-entity environment.

You will play a key role in ensuring compliance, strengthening tax governance, supporting financial reporting, and identifying opportunities to improve tax efficiency and cash outcomes.

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What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you will be responsible for a broad range of corporate tax activities, including:

• Leading direct tax compliance across all M Group entities

• Managing corporate tax accounting and reporting, including the preparation and delivery of tax disclosures for:

• Group financial statements

• Individual entity financial statements

• Acting as a trusted adviser to the business on direct tax matters

• Business partnering with internal stakeholders to provide clear, practical tax guidance

• Overseeing and managing tax authority audits, particularly in relation to corporate taxes

• Managing relationships with external tax advisers

• Identifying and delivering tax savings and cash opportunities, including areas such as RDEC

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What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for a qualified and commercially aware tax professional with strong technical expertise and the ability to operate effectively across a complex business.

Key skills and experience include:

• Deep technical knowledge of UK corporate tax, including:

• Corporation tax

• Capital allowances

• Loss relief

• Group relief

• Ability to interpret complex legislation and translate it into clear, actionable advice

• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills to assess tax risks and opportunities

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence senior leaders

• Demonstrated experience in:

• Corporation tax compliance

• Year-end tax reporting

• HMRC audits

• A proven track record in:

• Tax planning

• Tax governance

• Process improvement

• Fully qualified ACA, ACCA, or CTA

• Significant post-qualification experience, gained in practice and/or a large in-house tax environment

• Ability to manage competing priorities, support junior team development, and work effectively in a multi-entity group structure

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What’s In It for You?

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package designed to support you both professionally and personally.

Core benefits include:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme

• Online GP service available 24/7, 365 days a year

• Employee Assistance Programme

• My Rewards portal with access to thousands of retail discounts

• Life assurance

• Cycle to work scheme

• Salary finance

• Give As You Earn scheme

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

• Reward and recognition programme

Additional benefits available with this role:

• Company car or car allowance

• Fuel card

• Access to a range of EV and hybrid vehicles

• My Car Choice salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme

• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use

• Private healthcare

• Healthcare cash plan for you and your family

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Recommend a friend scheme with rewards for successful introductions

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Our Culture and Values

At M Group, we want to be an employer of choice — a place where talented people from all backgrounds can join, grow, and make a real difference.

We are proud to be one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Through our ENABLE inclusion networks, we bring people together around shared interests and experiences to help create a workplace where everyone feels they belong.

Our values shape how we work every day:

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities, and the planet

• We’re open and always seek better ways to exceed expectations

• We’re together — one team, stronger collectively than individually

• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunities to lead essential infrastructure services for life

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Career Development

Whether you are building your career or stepping into a more senior role, M Group is committed to helping you progress.

Our people benefit from industry-recognised training, development programmes, and career pathways designed to support long-term growth and success.

There has never been a more exciting time to join M Group.

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Important Information

Please note: vacancies may close before the advertised closing date, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible to avoid missing out.

For some positions, successful candidates will be required to complete third-party background checks as part of the recruitment process. Certain roles may also require drug and alcohol testing during induction and onboarding.

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Apply Now

If you are an experienced corporate tax professional looking for a strategic role in a large and evolving organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Join M Group and help deliver essential infrastructure services for life.

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