Assistant Manager, National Tax

Saffery; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35-hour work week with hybrid policy

Contributory pension

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance

Flexible benefits

Profit-Sharing Plan

Job summary

Saffery LLP seeks an Assistant Manager for its National Tax team, focusing on corporate, personal or mixed tax work. You will stay abreast of tax developments, communicate impacts to clients, and help improve tax policies, procedures and risk controls across the firm.

The role requires ACA/ATT and CTA where possible, strong communication, and a collaborative approach. The position offers hybrid working with a strong benefits package and clear opportunities for progression.

Qualifications

• Tax technical background and qualifications.
• Experience in a professional services firm.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for diverse audiences.
• Strong organisational skills and ownership of work.

Responsibilities

• Keep up-to-date with tax developments and communicate them to the team.
• Share impacts of tax changes with clients, e.g. via website articles.
• Assist with tax policy drafting, procedures and risk management.
• Support tax knowledgebase updates and file review processes to manage risk.
• Help with tax training programmes and cross‑team initiatives.
• Support improvements to compliance processes across all taxes.

Skills

Tax technical background

ACA or ATT and CTA

Experience in professional services

Excellent written and oral comms

Strong organisational skills

Networking skills

Education

ACA/ATT/CTA qualification

Job description

The role

Our National Tax team is recruiting for an Assistant Manager with either a corporate tax, personal tax or mixed tax background. Our National Tax team has a key role in ensuring clients always receive high quality services. The team provide policy, technical and risk management support to those in the fee-earning tax teams at Saffery.

Responsibilities

• Keeping up-to-date with tax developments and helping the team to communicate them.
• Helping the team share the impact of relevant tax changes with clients and potential clients, such as through contributing to website articles.
• Assisting with sharing information and best practice across teams on tax matters.
• Assisting colleagues resolve technical and risk related tax queries.
• Assisting with responses to tax-related consultations.
• Assisting with our response to the Budget and co-ordinating other key fiscal announcements.
• Ensuring our internal tax knowledgebase is complete and up to date, especially following tax changes.
• Assisting with the file review process for tax in order to manage risk across the firm, including contributing to reviewing and improving the current process and identifying and implementing improvements based on results.
• Assisting with reviewing/writing tax policies and procedures, including liaising with various teams across the firm to gather information as required for this.
• Helping run our tax technical training programmes.
• Helping with other National Tax initiatives, as needed.
• Assisting with compliance process improvements across all taxes, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency and strengthen process controls.

You

The Successful Candidate Will Be Self-motivated And Able To Produce High Quality Work Without Close Supervision. They Will Also Require The Following

• Tax technical background (ACA or ATT and CTA preferably), with the ability to pick up and understand issues from across a range of taxes quickly.
• Experience working in a professional services firm.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to express complex issues simply and to write for a variety of audiences, both internal and external.
• Passion for sharing knowledge and improving the processes and technologies that help people to do so.
• Strong organisational skills and a desire to take ownership of their work.
• Strong networking skills and the ability to build relationships both virtually and in person.
• Ability to work with those at all grades across the firm.

Reward And Benefits

• A 35-hour working week with a hybrid working policy with the flexibility to work from home for up to three days per week (our core hours are 10-4).
• Excellent benefits including contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance cover and great flexible benefits and family friendly policies.
• Eligibility for the firm’s Profit-Sharing Plan. Paid in December.

About Us

Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing market-leading accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax and VAT services. Founded in 1855, we are the UK’s 15th largest accountancy firm.

When you work with us at Saffery, you work with people who know your name, not just a job title. We’re a place shaped by friendly, intelligent people who are individually excellent and collectively exceptional. We’re committed to our clients, but also to our greatest asset – our people.

As a proud member of Nexia, a leading, international network of independent accounting and consulting firms, we’ve got access to local insight on a global scale.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Equality, diversity and inclusion is a top priority for us. With our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we are building on our positive work culture and implementing initiatives to improve diversity and strengthen our equitable culture of inclusion, led from the top.

We hope you will apply to us, whatever your background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability or neurodivergence, because individual differences equal collective strength. Built on values of excellence, integrity, collaborative, progressive and responsible, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.