Personal Tax Assistant Manager

Saffrey LLP; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Saffrey LLP as a Tax Assistant Manager in Manchester, where you will lead in personal tax compliance for diverse clients, oversee junior staff, and contribute to advisory services. This role comes with competitive benefits, hybrid work options, and a commitment to professional development in an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance cover

Profit-Sharing Plan

Discretionary bonus scheme

Flexible benefits and family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a portfolio and junior staff.
• Delivery of personal tax compliance services is essential.
• Experience with inheritance and capital gains tax planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal tax compliance services for clients across various sectors.
• Support junior staff through on-the-job training and supervision.
• Deliver ad hoc tax advice related to the annual compliance cycle.

Skills

Motivation

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Communication

IT skills

Job description

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

The role is primarily focussed 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

Our Manchester office is home to 5 partners and over 100 staff. Our modern, purpose-built office space on John Dalton Street has been designed to provide a working space that is conducive to team collaboration and agile working.

The team is comprised of a variety of departments and specialists who provide a wide range of services both locally and nationally.

You

Key characteristics and skills required:

• A positive and enthusiastic attitude
• A high level of motivation, ability and commitment
• Will have experience of management as they will be managing their own portfolio whilst also being responsible for reviewing the work of more junior tax staff
• Will be experienced in the delivery and management of personal tax compliance services.
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills are essential to ensure all deadlines are met
• Will have had 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.
• Will be from a professional services background
• Will be a 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 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