Rapid promotion for Melanie Reed, the new UK Head of Corporate Tax at RSM

Accountancy firm RSM has promoted Melanie Reed to national head of corporate tax. Her base will continue to be Bury St Edmunds. This is impressive stuff from Ms Reed, who was still a senior tax manager at Grant Thornton in 2012.

Jim Meakin, RSM’s UK head of tax commented:

‘I would like to welcome Melanie into her new role as our UK head of corporate tax where she will have a crucially important role as part of our tax leadership team. She has a great deal of experience of advising businesses both in the UK and internationally, and I have no doubt her leadership will increase and further develop our existing corporate tax offering at this exciting time for RSM.’

Ms Reed has over 15 years’ experience advising companies and their shareholders on various taxation matters with clients ranging across all sectors and all sizes. She has always worked in the East Anglia region, training with Grant Thornton and then Ernst & Young before returning to Grant Thornton in 2004. In 2012 she joined an independent firm, Scrutton Bland, as Tax Partner, before joining Baker Tilly in 2014.

In her new role she will lead and further develop RSM’s national corporate tax offering.

Tax Grotto has had a look at Ms Reed’s linkedin profile, and it appears that she was ahead of her time. In the current climate there is much discussion about whether Firms should be hiring straight from school instead of looking purely at graduates. Ms Reed left school in 1997. She joined Grant Thornton in 1997. No mention of a degree. Well played.

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