A Big 4 Accounting Practice is currently recruiting for a Private Client Tax Assistant Manager to join their Family Office & Private Client Tax team, which can be based out of their offices.
As a national practice the Family Office & Private Clients team consists of approximately 150 team members across the UK, led by 9 Partners and 15 Directors. They work with a variety of high-net-worth individuals - from stakeholders in privately owned and entrepreneurial businesses, executives of multi-national firms, landed estates and senior members of private equity firms; who may be tax resident and/or domiciled in a range of jurisdictions. We also specialise in providing advice to Trusts and Estates, and Partnerships.
If you are a highly motivated qualified tax adviser/ accountant (ATT, CTA or ACA/ACCA) with experience of working in personal tax, then we'd love to hear from you. We recognise that there are also highly motivated individuals who are qualified through experience and may not be exam qualified and we are open to considering such individuals also.
Responsibilities in this job include:
- Ensuring the delivery of a high quality personal tax service to our clients.
- Managing a diverse portfolio of more complex clients and being able to provide personal tax advice on a wide range of assignments including inheritance tax, capital gains tax, income tax, international tax matters, and identifying opportunities to advise your portfolio of clients in relation to these taxes.
- Providing original and creative thinking to solve tax problems, frequently leading to providing wholly bespoke tax advice and solutions to one-off assignments.
- Project managing tax advisory assignments to ensure deadlines, risk management and compliance procedures are all met.
- Managing work in progress and ensuring prompt billing and cash collection.
- Overseeing the performance and career development of partly and newly qualified staff.
Your experience:
- Qualified accountant or tax advisor with experience working in a personal tax focused environment with exposure to a varied client base.
- Academically strong results in career to date coupled with a keen and insightful understanding of the issues facing private clients.
- An ability to work as part of a team as well as on their own initiative.
- High level of analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.
- Strong interpersonal skills are required in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.
Offering flexible/hybrid working and study support if required.
