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About the Role

Knight Frank is seeking a Partner, Group Head of Tax to join their Head Office. This senior leadership role requires deep technical expertise and commercial acumen to lead the tax function, ensuring robust tax strategy, governance, compliance, and advisory capabilities aligned with the business's long-term ambitions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the Group’s tax strategy, ensuring alignment with commercial aims, governance standards, and long-term ambitions.
• Provide deep technical expertise on UK partnership tax matters, including LLP taxation, partner profit allocations, drawings, tax reserves, partner capital, self-assessment obligations, and the tax implications of changes to partner remuneration or structure.
• Establish and maintain a robust tax governance framework, ensuring appropriate oversight, controls, documentation, and escalation of material tax risks across the Group.
• Act as a senior adviser to the Group CFO, Senior Partner, and relevant Boards on complex tax matters, providing clear, pragmatic, and commercially grounded advice.
• Advise on the tax implications of changes to the Partnership structure, partner status, international expansion, operating model evolution, transactions, investments, and other strategic initiatives.
• Oversee the delivery of accurate and timely tax compliance across relevant jurisdictions, ensuring the Partnership meets its statutory, regulatory, and reporting obligations.
• Lead and manage the relationship with HMRC and other tax authorities where appropriate, as well as external tax advisers, ensuring high-quality, value-adding advice.
• Provide oversight and advice on cross-border tax matters, including permanent establishment risk, transfer pricing, withholding tax, international partner arrangements, and regional tax considerations.
• Ensure clear and effective processes to support Partners with tax-related matters linked to their role within the LLP, while maintaining appropriate boundaries between firm-level and personal tax advice.
• Work closely with the People team, Finance and Legal teams on employment tax, partner reward, benefits, mobility, incentives, and related tax implications.
• Provide oversight of VAT and other indirect tax matters, ensuring risks are appropriately managed and practical advice is given on complex operational issues.
• Build strong relationships across the Partnership, providing proactive tax input into business planning, commercial decisions, and operational change.
• Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency, quality, and resilience of tax processes through better systems, controls, data, and digital tools.
• Lead, develop, and strengthen the tax team, creating a high-performing, collaborative, and technically excellent function.
• Monitor legislative, regulatory, and market developments, anticipating changes that may affect the Partnership and advising leadership on appropriate responses.

Requirements

• Extensive Partnership Tax Expertise: Deep and demonstrable experience of UK and Group partnership tax, ideally gained within a professional services, real estate, legal, accountancy or similarly complex partnership environment.
• Technical Credibility: Strong technical knowledge across corporate tax, partnership tax, international tax, VAT, employment taxes and tax governance, with the ability to apply that knowledge pragmatically.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to understand the wider commercial agenda and advise on tax matters in a way that supports long-term strategic decision-making.
• Commercial Judgement: Strong business judgement, with the ability to balance technical tax requirements, commercial priorities, reputational considerations and risk appetite.
• Trusted Adviser: Ability to operate as a credible, discreet and trusted adviser to senior leaders and Partners, including on sensitive and complex matters.
• Partnership Mindset: A strong understanding of how partnerships operate, including the importance of Partner confidence, consensus-building, transparency and stewardship.
• Governance & Risk Management: Experience of designing and operating effective tax governance frameworks, controls and risk management processes.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex tax issues clearly and confidently to non-tax specialists.
• Influence & Stakeholder Management: Ability to work effectively across functions, regions and seniority levels, building trust and influencing without relying solely on formal authority.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead, develop and motivate a specialist team, creating clarity, accountability and a culture of high performance.
• Change & Improvement: Track record of improving tax processes, controls, reporting and ways of working, including through better use of data, systems and technology.
• External Adviser Management: Experience of appointing, managing and challenging external advisers to ensure high-quality, cost-effective advice.
• Significant experience of UK partnership tax, including LLP structures and Partner tax matters.
• Significant experience of operating in a professional services partnership or similarly complex stakeholder-led environment.
• Significant experience of advising senior leadership, Boards or executive committees on complex tax matters.
• Significant experience of managing tax governance, compliance and risk across a sizeable organisation.
• Significant experience of working with HMRC and external tax advisers.
• Significant experience of international tax matters in a global or multi-jurisdictional environment.
• Significant experience of partner remuneration, profit allocation, capital, drawings and related tax considerations.
• Significant experience of leading and developing a specialist tax team.
• Significant experience of supporting business transformation, structural change or strategic projects from a tax perspective.
• Significant experience of translating complex technical issues into clear, practical and commercially relevant advice.
• High integrity, discretion and sound judgement.
• Calm, measured and confident in handling sensitive or high-stakes matters.
• Pragmatic and solutions-focused, without compromising governance or compliance.
• Collaborative and collegiate, with a style that fits a partnership culture.
• Intellectually strong, technically rigorous and able to challenge constructively.
• Clear, concise and confident communicator.
• Proactive, forward-looking and able to anticipate issues before they become risks.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and across a complex, international business.

Skills

• UK Partnership Tax
• LLP Taxation
• Partner Profit Allocations
• Tax Reserves
• Partner Capital
• Self-Assessment Obligations
• Corporate Tax
• International Tax
• VAT
• Employment Taxes
• Tax Governance
• Risk Management
• HMRC Relationship Management
• External Adviser Management
• Cross-border Tax Matters
• Permanent Establishment Risk
• Transfer Pricing
• Withholding Tax
• Partner Remuneration
• Team Leadership
• Process Improvement
• Systems and Controls
• Data Analysis
• Digital Tools
• Business Partnering
• Strategic Planning
• Commercial Acumen
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication Skills

Location

• 55 Baker Street, London, UK

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior Leadership
• Extensive Experience

Education Level

• CTA (Chartered Tax Adviser) qualified, or equivalent advanced tax qualification.
• ACA, ACCA or CA qualified (highly desirable in addition to CTA).
• Degree or equivalent professional qualification in Accounting, Tax, Finance or related discipline.

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

About the Company

• Founded in 1896, Knight Frank is one of the world's leading independent real estate consultancies, headquartered in London, UK.
• Knight Frank operates responsibly in partnership, enhancing people's lives and environments in over 50 Markets, with 600+ Offices and 20,000+ People globally.
• The company acts as trusted partners in property, prioritizing integrity, care, and understanding of client needs.
• Knight Frank is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace, empowering individuals and encouraging contributions to shape the future of real estate.
• The firm celebrates opinions, invites contributions to business success, and embraces innovation and new ideas.
• In 2021, Knight Frank celebrated its 125th anniversary and set out its future vision focused on People Potential, Client Centricity, and Creating our Future, together.