My client are currently looking for a Personal Tax Manager to join their Top 50 Accountancy Practice. 

Function: Tax department

Salary:  50k-60k

Reporting to: Tax Partners

The role: 

• A key role in the firm’s tax department leading a team to deliver high quality compliance and advisory services, and supporting the tax marketing activities of the firm.
• Exposure to varied and challenging tax issues on clients across a range of private client & OMB issues.
• The opportunity to develop tax technical skills and to build a role around the individual’s strengths.
• A leading role in delivering tax advisory projects and supporting the partners in developing tax services.

Individual requirements 

• Solid academic history
• CTA qualified
• A minimum of three years’ post CTA qualification
• Good working knowledge of taxation for non domiciled individuals
• Good working knowledge of wider tax issues relevant to OMBs, for example profit extraction issues, corporation tax, loans to participators
• Ability to deal with conflicting demands
• Good written and verbal communication and ability to work at all levels
• Good analytical skills
• Responsible and flexible attitude to work
• Self motivated and a good team player
• Ability to work without supervision

Essential experience/attributes

• Experience of managing a client portfolio, including all aspects of the service, including managing client relationships, reviewing subordinates’ work and WIP / billing management.
• Experience of managing a private client tax team including recruitment, appraisals, training and supporting team members’ career development.
• Ability to identify planning opportunities from existing and potential clients.
• Excellent IT skills, preferably with a good working knowledge of Digita and the ability to support the development of the personal tax compliance processes.
• Ability to provide internal tax technical support to partners, tax team members and other personnel.
• Ability to support marketing initiatives for the firm, for example by identifying marketing opportunities, writing tax articles and internal technical updates.

Benefits:

• Bonus: 2% at Christmas
• Holidays: 26 plus 8 bank holidays
• Pension: 1+1% rising to 4 or 5% (matched) through length of service
• PMI: single membership medical and dental insurance
• Death in service
• Season ticket loan
• Fresh fruit twice a week and cheese Thursdays!
• Benefits through salary sacrifice: flexible benefits package including healthcare, enhanced dental, cycle to work, childcare vouchers, gourmet society, gymflex, etc.