Senior Tax Manager — Hybrid & Flexible Hours (Brighton)

The Career Agent; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Collective Concepts Accounting, based in Brighton, seeks a senior tax professional to join the leadership team. You will oversee personal tax returns, complex advisory work, and R&D claims, while mentoring staff and directing tax strategy for high-net-worth clients.

You will work with founders and senior stakeholders to shape the tax function, expand crypto and non-domiciled services, and deliver high-quality client service in a flexible hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• Qualified tax professional with extensive personal tax portfolio management.
• Experience with crypto tax, CGT, non-resident and non-dom rules, and HNW structures.
• Experience leading R&D tax claims.
• Strong leadership and ability to mentor staff.
• Excellent client communication and stakeholder management.
• Willingness to upskill to cover R&D advisory.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the preparation and submission of personal tax returns.
• Prepare and review high-net-worth tax returns, including crypto and property scenarios.
• Lead our R&D tax advisory service, ensuring compliant and high-quality claims.
• Manage the tax consulting function, delivering strategic advisory work to clients.
• Provide expert tax advice across personal tax, CGT, residence, domicile, and crypto tax.
• Review complex computations prepared by junior and mid-level team members.
• Lead tax planning projects at both personal and corporate level.
• Support HMRC enquiries, disclosures, and technical queries as required.
• Mentor, train, and develop members of the tax and accounting teams.
• Assist with onboarding of high-value clients and attending networking/events as part of the leadership team.

Skills

Chartered Tax Advisor

CTA finalist

ACCA/ACA

Crypto tax

R&D advisory

Leadership

Mentoring

Client communication

Education

ACCA/ACA qualification

Tools

Cloud accounting tools

Tax software

Job description

Collective Concepts Accounting, based in Brighton, seeks a senior tax professional to join the leadership team. You will oversee personal tax returns, complex advisory work, and R&D claims, while mentoring staff and directing tax strategy for high-net-worth clients.

You will work with founders and senior stakeholders to shape the tax function, expand crypto and non-domiciled services, and deliver high-quality client service in a flexible hybrid setup.