Private Tax Senior Manager | Melbourne

Job Requisition ID: 39716 

• Flexible work arrangements – work in a way that suits you best
• World-class learning and leadership programs
• 18 weeks paid parental leave

What will your typical day look like?

As a Senior Manager in our Melbourne Private Tax Team, you will have the opportunity to shape and drive the business.  Working closely with our Partners, you are responsible for leading the team and delivering to our clients while remaining focused on growing the business and identifying new opportunities.  You will also enhance the performance, careers and development of a group of talented staff.

This specialist opportunity in our Private Tax and Advisory team utilises our global tax network and serves our firms largest and most complex private clients. You will focus on delivering high quality, value adding work to some of Australia’s most iconic privately owned businesses. 

As a Senior Manager with specialist subject matter expertise, you will have many opportunities to advise on complex projects and assignments and managing the ongoing tax needs for businesses.

You will advise some of Australia’s largest privately owned businesses and family offices on a wide range of income tax matters, including (non-exhaustive): structuring and restructuring for tax efficiency, improved asset protection and effective estate/succession plans; tax controversary and governance; complex transactions; and cross-border transactions, including Australian inbound investment and outbound investments across Asia, Europe and the Americas.  You will also assist clients with managing their income tax compliance affairs, including helping them meet their periodic tax reporting obligations to the Australian Taxation Office and provision of tax balances for financial reporting purposes.

About the team
You’ll be part of a vibrant, high-energy team where enthusiasm and camaraderie are at the heart of everything we do. Our environment is dynamic and collaborative, built on genuine support and a shared commitment to delivering meaningful, impactful results for Australia’s most influential clients.

We celebrate achievements together and foster an atmosphere where you can grow, have fun, and build lasting professional relationships. Joining us means stepping into a fulfilling, engaging experience where your contributions are recognised, and you are encouraged to grow, develop, and truly make a difference in the evolution of both our people and the Private Tax practice.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you.

You are someone with:

• Experience working in managing and delivering complex client advisory and compliance engagements across a diverse client portfolio of privately owned businesses and/or family offices, including groups that have international presence;
• A zest for collaborating with clients and key stakeholders to understand their business needs and provide holistic and commercially appropriate tax solutions.
• Proven team leadership expertise and aspirations to grow engagements and client accounts and foster relationship at a senior level;
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills
• Degree qualifications in Commerce and/or Law with post graduate accounting, tax and/or legal qualifications
• A passion for growing the team and improving their professional expertise to best support you; and
• 5+ years’ experience in advising private clients as described above in a Big 4, mid-tier professional or accounting services firm, legal firm or the ATO.

Why Deloitte?   

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating, and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.  

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong. 

We support flexibility and choice. We encourage you to find the right balance between connecting in person with your clients and teams and meeting your own personal needs.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package. 

Next Steps

Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you!

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By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.