Senior Manager/ Manager - Partnership Specialist (Tax Services Group)

Saffery; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK accountancy firm is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to join its Tax Services Group. This role involves managing a portfolio of partnerships, mentoring team members, and engaging in business development. The ideal candidate has strong UK tax knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to client relationships. The position offers a hybrid working model with generous benefits, including a contributory pension and annual leave.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance cover

Profit-Sharing Plan eligibility

Qualifications

• Several years of post-qualification experience.
• Ability to analyse tax technical queries and provide solutions.
• Clear client focus with strong relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage an existing portfolio of professional partnerships.
• Support business development activities and prepare tenders.
• Mentor and develop team members interested in a partnership specialism.

Skills

Strong UK tax technical skills

Project management skills

Excellent communication skills

Coaching and mentoring skills

Business development experience

Education

Qualified ACA/ACCA/CTA

Job description

Please note, this role can be based out of any of our offices in Bristol, Bournemouth, High Wycombe, Peterborough, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, or Inverness.

The role

We are in an expansion phase across the firm and seeking an experienced Senior Manager or Manager to join our Tax Services Group to provide direct support to the partners by managing an existing portfolio of professional partnerships and connected partners, whilst helping to grow and develop this area of our business.

The successful applicant will be responsible for their own portfolio and should possess strong tax technical expertise, leadership skills, and the ability to foster client relationships.

The allocation of work includes compliance and advisory for professional partnerships and all related matters.

The role will include supporting business development activities, including preparing tenders, proposals and delivering presentations.

The role will involve mentoring and developing team members interested in a partnership specialism along with line management, assisting with work planning and performance feedback.

Ongoing training will be provided, with the opportunity for the individual to attend the firm's annual tax conference and attend both internal and external training sessions.

The role provides a wide range of interesting work for someone with a solid personal tax background in a friendly and supportive environment.

About you

The role would suit a qualified individual (for example ACA/ACCA/CTA) with several years post qualification experience.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Strong UK tax technical skills;
• Ability to analyse tax technical queries and provide robust advice and solutions;
• Project management skills, with the ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines and monitor budgets;
• Responsibility for the delivery and quality of work;
• Excellent communication skills;
• A clear client focus with a commitment to building strong client relationships;
• Ability to work collaboratively with different teams; and
• Coaching and mentoring skills to develop other team member
• Business development experience

The team

The Tax Services Group consists of over 110 employees spread over 8 office locations. The team delivers exceptional quality compliance and advisory services to a wide range of high-net-worth private clients, including those with UK and offshore interests, property owners, business owners, partnerships, and trusts.

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.