We are recruiting for an experienced Tax Manager in our Leeds office, focusing on managing the personal tax compliance cycle. The role involves providing ad hoc advice related to the annual compliance cycle to a growing portfolio of individuals, trusts, partnerships, and LLPs across various sectors, especially landed estates and rural businesses.
As a training office, the candidate is also expected to support the development of junior staff through on-the-job training.
Opportunities exist to get involved in firm-wide advisory work, committees, and presentations if desired.
The Team
The Tax Services Group North (TSGN) comprises over 50 employees across four UK offices (Edinburgh, Inverness, Leeds, and Manchester). The team delivers high-quality compliance and advisory services to high-net-worth private clients, including those with UK and offshore interests, property owners, business owners, partnerships, and trusts.
You
Key skills and characteristics include:
* A positive, enthusiastic attitude
* High motivation, ability, and commitment
* Previous relevant management experience, managing your own portfolio and reviewing junior staff work
* Experience in personal tax compliance services
* Excellent organizational and prioritization skills to meet deadlines
* Experience in tailored advice, including inheritance and capital gains tax planning, international tax, and trust planning, with a broad base across these areas
* Background in professional services
* Confident communication skills with colleagues, partners, and clients
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team
* High attention to detail and timeliness
* Excellent IT skills
Rewards/Benefits
* 35-hour workweek with a hybrid policy, allowing up to three days remote work (core hours 10-4)
* Benefits including contributory pension, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance, flexible benefits, and family-friendly policies
* Participation in the firm's Profit-Sharing Plan (paid in December)
* Discretionary bonus scheme eligibility
About Us
Saffery LLP, founded in 1855, is the UK's 15th largest accountancy firm, providing accountancy, audit, advisory, tax, and VAT services to individuals and businesses across sectors. We value our people and foster a culture of excellence and collegiality. As part of Nexia, an international network, we offer global insights.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We prioritize ED&I through our "Everyone Belongs" strategy, striving to create an inclusive environment that values individual differences. We welcome applicants regardless of background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability, or neurodivergence, because diversity strengthens us. At Saffery, potential meets personal.
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