Personal Tax Assistant Manager

Saffery; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

We are recruiting for an experienced Tax Assistant Manager to join our growing team in our Leeds office.

The role is primarily focused on the provision of high-quality personal tax compliance but includes the provision of ad hoc advice related to the annual compliance cycle.

Our clients include individuals, trusts, partnerships, and LLPs across a range of sectors, particularly landed estates and rural businesses.

As a training office, there is also an expectation that the candidate would support the development of more junior staff in on-the-job training and supervise trainees.

There are opportunities to get involved in firm-wide advisory, committees, and presentations if the individual wishes to do so.

The Office

These are exciting times for the local office with the recent expansion from Harrogate to brand new, purpose-built office space in Leeds City Centre in September 2024.

You

Key characteristics and skills required:

• A positive and enthusiastic attitude
• A high level of motivation, ability, and commitment
• Experience in management, as the candidate will manage their own portfolio and be responsible for reviewing the work of more junior tax staff
• Experience in the delivery and management of personal tax compliance services. Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills are essential to ensure all deadlines are met
• Experience in the provision of tax advice, including inheritance and capital gains tax planning, and trust planning. The exact mix of advisory will be tailored to the strengths of the individual, but a broad base is required to permit work in most, if not all, of the above areas.
• Land-based issues form a significant part of the current workload.
• Professional services background
• Confident communicator to colleagues, partners, and clients
• Comfortable working on their own initiative as well as being a good team player
• High attention to detail and the ability to work in a timely manner
• Excellent IT skills

Rewards and Benefits

• A 35-hour working week with a hybrid working policy allowing flexibility to work from home for up to three days per week (our core hours are 10-4)
• Excellent benefits including a 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.