Tax
The tax team at Pure is widely regarded as the UK’s number one tax selection recruitment specialist.
Our clients are large multinational businesses across industry sectors, SMEs and professional firms. We operate globally but with a specific focus on the UK and Europe and within major financial centers.
Senior-level assignments are consistently fulfilled for the majority of FTSE100, FTSE250, major financial institutions, many overseas multinationals, the Big 4 and Top 20 accountancy firms.
For more information about our specific services with the tax field, find more information our dedicated tax jobs website.
Examples of completed assignments
| Corporate Tax Partner | Big 4 |
| Insurance Tax Partner | Top 10 |
| Private Practice Tax Partner | Top 50 |
| European Head of Tax | Global Insurer |
| Head of Tax | Power Generation Company |
| Assistant Tax Director | UK Retail Bank |
| VAT Director | Media and Telecommunications plc |
| Senior Tax Manager (Interim) | Global Mining Company |
| Deputy Tax Director (Interim) | Electronics Giant |
| Interim Head of Tax | Insurance Company |
| Team Move: Senior Corporate Tax Partner and Corporate Tax Partner Designate | Leading UK City Firm |
| Corporate Tax Partner | Big 4 Accountancy Firm |
| Team Move: Private Client and Trusts Team | Legal Arm of a Big 4 Accountancy Firm |
Our People
Chris
Nelson
London office
Chris is the co-founder of the Pure Group. He has a leading reputation in tax and front office banking search. He has been responsible for some of the highest profile and most senior moves in the last decade in these disciplines. Specifically, Chris handles partner and team moves in the profession and director level assignments in commerce and banking.
Chris spent his early career with Arthur Andersen as a tax consultant in their London office after reading Law at Leeds University.
Chris’s interests include golf and marathon running, though seldom at the same time.
Charles
Ferguson
London office
Charles is the co-founder of the Pure Group. He is a well known figure in the industry and specialises in recruiting senior level tax professionals across the banking, practice and commercial sectors. Charles has 18 years’ experience undertaking executive search and selection assignments at partner, director and senior management levels. He has also managed numerous high-profile recruitment marketing campaigns for a wide range of clients.
Charles graduated from Southampton University in 1987 and, after a short spell training in audit, began his career in executive recruitment.
As well as spending time with his family, Charles enjoys rugby and cricket from the safety of the stands or armchair. He regularly goes to the theatre and enjoys London’s excellent restaurants.
Iain
Lorriman
London office
Iain has been a Director of Pure since 2005.
Iain Directs the EMEA Tax business across all service lines. This involves leadership of the business and personal handling of key partnership or Head of Tax assignments. If you would like an overview of the full range of sectors and disciplines Pure covers in Tax, or if you require impartial career advice, you should contact Iain in the first instance.
Iain has 13 years' Tax and Financial Services search experience. He joined Pure in 2003.
Previously Iain worked for a medium-sized search practice at which he set up and ran the banking and commerce sector teams. Prior to this he trained in a Big Four tax division having gained a postgraduate degree in Law.
Iain was born to a Danish mother, brought up in Edinburgh and worked and studied in Italy. He enjoys taking his young family on cross country skiing and mountaineering holidays.
Ewen
Burns
London office
Ewen joined Pure in 2002 to focus on recruiting tax professionals across all sectors of the commerce tax market. Ewen focuses on recruiting at tax director and head of tax level internationally, and has built strong relationships with an extensive number of FTSE-listed, financial services and overseas organisations.
Ewen joined Pure as a qualified tax adviser with a wealth of corporate tax experience gained from four years at KPMG. This tax experience, coupled with his depth of market knowledge, has enabled Ewen to build an excellent reputation across all levels and disciplines of the tax arena. Ewen graduated in Civil Engineering from Herriot Watt University.
Outside work Ewen is a keen tennis player and has competed nationally for Scotland. Continuing to play at county and club level, Ewen is currently a member of Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club.
Paul
Murphy
London office
Paul works in the Commerce team and specialises in recruiting from Senior Manager to Head of Tax.
Since joining Pure in 2005, Paul has successfully recruited for a number of leading companies and has established relationships with companies within the FTSE 100, 250 and overseas multinationals.
Paul trained in tax at KPMG in London and followed this with an in-house tax role at Reckitt Benkiser plc, before joining Pure. He read Law at Hull University.
Dalia
Greenwood
London office
Dalia heads up the interim team at Pure Recruitment and has worked there since 2004. She recruits primarily at Senior Manager and Head of Tax level across commerce and industry and financial services.
Dalia graduated with a law degree from Birmingham University. She then gained over three years’ experience working for a global recruitment company, specialising in interim tax and legal recruitment.
In her spare time, Dalia enjoys travelling the world and fine dining.
Chris
Miller
London office
Chris specialises in placing tax lawyers on a search and selection basis. This includes significant Partner and team moves. He deals with all areas of corporate tax, private client tax and wealth management, indirect taxes, tax litigation and share schemes.
Chris has a strong network of contacts in the tax world and often hosts events for Heads of Tax in the FTSE 100, Partners in the Law Firms and in the Accountancy Firms. By being fully immersed in the tax world he is able to advise clients and candidates on what is going on in the market and likely trends for the future.
Prior to joining Pure, Chris worked at a number of leading law firms and a large legal publishing house. He studied law at university and completed the LPC.
Chris has completed five marathons and enjoys football and skiing.
Our People - EMEA Region
James
Incles
London office
James operates within the tax and finance sectors in the EMEA region. His remit includes Heads of Business, Tax and Finance Directors and Senior Analysts.
Having spent four years recruiting within capital markets for a UK plc in the London market, James moved to Japan to start up and launch the brand in Tokyo. Within four years, James established the brand as a market leader in financial services and commerce recruitment, both in the contingent and retained sectors.
James graduated in Accounting and Law from Kingston University.
James is an enthusiastic sportsman with a keen interest in cooking and travel.
Michelle Lynne
Dye
London office
Michelle is the Head of Research for the EMEA region. She maps the markets to aide consultants in sourcing the best talent in their given sector.
Michelle joined Pure from an international boutique search firm specialising in private wealth management and worked on a retained basis in the USA, UK and Asia for a number of high profile financial institutions. Prior to this Michelle was a Researcher for the Japanese Government for four years in the oil and gas sector where she worked on various exploration and production projects globally with world leading commodities companies.
Michelle graduated from SOAS with a Japanese BA and received a scholarship with the Japanese Government. In her spare time Michelle likes to go snowboarding and is a CASI trained instructor.
Our People - Asia Pacific Region
Barrie
Sanderson
Hong Kong office
Barrie leads our Asia Search Practice from our Hong Kong office.
Through our flexible, whole market, approach he works with a broad range of Commerce & Industry, Financial Services and Private Practice clients on their senior Tax, Legal and Finance needs.
A UK tax qualified professional, Barrie joined Pure in early 2004 to build our market leading tax professional services business in the UK. From 2006 he then led the development of our wealth advisory business completing assignments with a broad range of tax structured finance, investment advisory, private banking and professional services clients.
Barrie recruits across Tax and Wealth Advisory and leads our Legal and Finance offerings.