Employment Tax Senior Manager/Manager

Saffery; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy firm in London is seeking a Senior Manager or Manager for their Employment Taxes Team. The successful candidate will manage a portfolio of clients while delivering expert tax advice and mentoring junior team members. The role offers a hybrid working model with excellent benefits, including a contributory pension scheme and a flexible working policy.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance cover

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering leading engagements.
• Experience in managing a demanding portfolio.
• Ability to run multiple projects concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of clients and deliver tax advice.
• Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance.
• Pursue opportunities to grow the employment tax practice.

Skills

Strong technical expertise

Leadership abilities

Client relationship management

Problem-solving

Organisational skills

Education

CTA, ATT, ACA/ACCA, STEP or equivalent

Job description

Senior Manager/Manager - London

The role

We are looking for a bright and enthusiastic Senior Manager or Manager to work within our Employment Taxes Team and become part of the team. The successful candidate will play a critical role in providing compliance and advisory services to the Saffery client base.

You will be responsible for managing a portfolio of clients, delivering excellent tax advice, and supporting the firm's business development initiatives. This successful candidate will possess strong technical expertise, leadership abilities, and the ability to foster client relationships and win new work.

Responsibilities

• As a Partner led firm, you would be required to support the Engagement Partner through the client's objectives and deliver on technical demands (with the support of a well-established team framework) to deliver excellent tax advice and service to the client.
• Delivering employment tax consultancy advice, including compliance reviews, work status assessments (IR35), due diligence and risk management.
• Acting as a senior point of contact for client on matters including PAYE, Construction Industry Scheme (CIS), National Minimum Wage (NMW).
• Ensuring deliverables are prepared within the set time frame.
• Mentor junior team members, imparting technical guidance and feeding back on performance.
• Providing excellent client management skills including budgeting, invoicing clients and dealing with ad hoc queries.
• Pursue opportunities to grow the employment tax practice through referrals, networking, and contributing to pitches.

You

The successful applicant will be enthusiastic and technically capable, with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills. The position will require a high level of teamwork and commitment, with the ability to manage deadlines and run multiple projects concurrently. Candidates should be self-motivated, display a positive approach and can get things done. In addition, they should possess the confidence and professionalism to establish credibility at all levels, be commercially minded and have a clear perception of client requirements.

Technical skills are important, and the successful candidate will have a proven track record of delivering leading engagements.

This position also requires a team‑orientated and flexible personality, alongside the experience of organising the delivery of tax work, problem solving and the ability to use their own initiative.

The successful candidate will possess a wide range of advisory and compliance experience and will need to have experience in managing a demanding portfolio.

Candidates must be professionally qualified (CTA, ATT, ACA/ACCA, STEP or equivalent) with relevant experience.

The firm will provide training and support to help develop the successful candidate's specialist knowledge and capabilities. For the right individual, there is scope to progress quickly within the team.

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.

Eligibility for the discretionary bonus scheme.

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, enthusiasm and collegiality, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.