Senior Manager - National Tax (any office)

Saffery; Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK accountancy firm is seeking a Senior Manager for its National Tax team. The role emphasizes managing tax-related communications, policy development, and technical training, requiring a strong background in corporate tax and excellent communication skills. This position offers a flexible hybrid working environment, generous benefits, and a commitment to equality and inclusion.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance cover

Profit-Sharing Plan eligibility

Discretionary bonus scheme eligibility

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and able to produce high-quality work.
• Experience working in a professional services firm.
• Ability to express complex issues simply for various audiences.

Responsibilities

• Keeping up-to-date with tax developments and communicating them internally.
• Managing file review processes for corporate tax.
• Designing, planning and running tax technical training programmes.

Skills

Tax technical background

Excellent written and oral communication

Strong organisational skills

Networking skills

Education

ACA

CTA

Job description

Our National Tax team is recruiting for a Senior Manager with a corporate 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 corporate tax teams at Saffery.

The role will involve:

• Keeping up-to-date with tax developments and communicating them internally, both in meetings and through written articles and updates.
• Working with tax colleagues to share the impact of relevant tax changes with clients and potential clients, such as through website articles, webinars, podcasts, press comments and events.
• Assisting with information sharing across teams on tax matters.
• Assisting colleagues resolve tax queries.
• Assisting with responses to tax-related consultations.
• Assisting with our response to the Budget and other key fiscal announcements.
• Ensuring our internal tax knowledgebase is complete and up to date, especially following tax changes.
• Managing the file review process for corporate tax, including contributing to reviewing and improving the current process and identifying and implementing improvements based on results.
• Assisting with understanding the cause of complaints, notifications and PI claims and implementing changes to prevent recurrence.
• Assisting with reviewing/writing tax policies and procedures and training colleagues on them.
• Helping design, plan and run our tax technical training programmes.
• Helping with other National Tax initiatives, as needed.

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 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, including the ability to challenge partners/directors where required.

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.