Tax Manager

Vaisto Recruitment Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive package

Independent firm culture

Job summary

Vaisto Recruitment Ltd in Manchester is seeking a Tax Manager for a newly created role in an independent firm. You will manage a mixed corporate and personal tax portfolio, handling compliance and advisory work within a culture that values independence and career direction.

The role offers flexibility to shape responsibilities around your background, with a growing tax team and hybrid working, delivering a broad, technically varied workload.

Qualifications

• ACA/ACCA/CTA qualified (or equivalent).
• Strong background in corporate tax, ideally with understanding of how financial statements are prepared (an accounts background welcomed).
• Experience with groups, larger clients and more complex tax matters (loss relief, QIPs) would be beneficial.
• Comfortable working across both compliance and advisory work.
• Prior experience at a Top 10, 20 or 30 firm, or a similarly structured practice, is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio leadership: Manage a mixed portfolio of corporate and personal tax clients, spanning compliance and advisory work.
• Ensure deadlines, quality standards and HMRC compliance are consistently met across your portfolio.
• Client advisory: Provide clear, practical advice to owner-managed businesses, corporates and private clients.
• Get involved in advisory and planning projects as your experience and interests develop.
• Build long-term relationships that go beyond compliance delivery.
• Leadership & team development: Oversee and support graduate trainees and intermediate staff within your team.
• Share technical knowledge with colleagues moving between accounts and tax disciplines.
• Contribute to the continued growth and shaping of the wider tax function.

Skills

Corporate tax

Personal tax

Advisory

HMRC compliance

Education

ACA/ACCA/CTA or equivalent

Job description

Tax Manager Manchester c.£52,000 - £58,000 + a genuinely independent firm

This is a newly created role, born out of sustained growth rather than replacement, offering a genuine chance to shape a position around your own strengths and career direction.

You’ll join a Manchester tax team that has grown five-fold in seven years, working across a genuine mix of corporate and personal tax, compliance and advisory. The firm has remained independent for decades, with no intention of changing that.

Because the role is newly created, there's real flexibility to shape it around your background and where you want your tax career to go next.

This role is ideal for a Tax Manager who:

• Has trained at a Top 10, 20 or 30 firm and is looking to broaden into a more rounded tax role, or has come from an accounts background and understands how financial statements are built
• Wants to work across both corporate and personal tax, compliance and advisory, rather than being confined to a single specialism
• Is looking for the stability and culture of an independently owned firm, with the technical variety usually reserved for much larger groups

Tax Manager - About the Firm

This is a well-established, independently owned firm of chartered accountants based in central Manchester, with a tax team of around 20 people. The firm has grown steadily and deliberately over several decades and has firmly ruled out being absorbed by one of the larger consolidators - independence is core to how it operates and how it treats its people.

Tax Manager - Why This Role Exists

The tax team has grown significantly over the last few years, and advisory work continues to grown. The firm is looking to recruit a Manager who can manage a mixed corporate / personal portfolio and play a key role in the team's next phase of growth.

Tax Manager - Responsibilities

Portfolio leadership

• Manage a mixed portfolio of corporate and personal tax clients, spanning compliance and advisory work
• Ensure deadlines, quality standards and HMRC compliance are consistently met across your portfolio

Client advisory

• Provide clear, practical advice to owner-managed businesses, corporates and private clients
• Get involved in advisory and planning projects as your experience and interests develop
• Build long-term relationships that go beyond compliance delivery

Leadership & team development

• Oversee and support graduate trainees and intermediate staff within your team
• Share technical knowledge with colleagues moving between accounts and tax disciplines
• Contribute to the continued growth and shaping of the wider tax function

Tax Manager - Requirements

• ACA / ACCA / CTA qualified (or equivalent)
• Strong background in corporate tax, ideally with an understanding of how financial statements are prepared (an accounts background is welcomed)
• Experience with groups, larger clients and more complex tax matters (loss relief, QIPs) would be beneficial
• Comfortable working across both compliance and advisory work
• Prior experience at a Top 10, 20 or 30 firm, or a similarly structured practice, is an advantage

Tax Manager - Benefits

Salary: c.£52,000 - £58,000, depending on experience

Benefits: Competitive package with hybrid working

Progression: Genuine scope to grow within a team that has expanded five-fold over the last seven years, in a firm committed to remaining independent.