Assistant Manager, National Tax

Saffery Llp; United States; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35-hour work week

Hybrid working policy

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance cover

Contributory pension scheme

Profit-Sharing Plan

Job summary

Saffery LLP is seeking an Assistant Manager in National Tax with a flexible background in corporate, personal, or mixed tax. The role focuses on delivering high-quality tax services and building policy and knowledge-management capabilities across the firm.

You will communicate tax developments, support client-facing teams, and help improve risk management and processes. The position offers a hybrid work model and opportunities for professional development within a leading UK advisory firm.

Qualifications

• Tax technical background with ability to pick up and understand issues from across taxes quickly.
• Experience in a professional services firm is desirable.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Keep up-to-date with tax developments and help communicate them.
• Help share the impact of tax changes with clients and potential clients, e.g., website articles.
• Assist with sharing information and best practices across teams on tax matters.
• Assist colleagues in resolving technical and risk-related tax queries.
• Assist with responses to tax-related consultations.
• Coordinate responses to Budget and other key fiscal announcements.
• Ensure internal tax knowledgebase is complete and updated after changes.
• Assist with file review to manage risk and improve processes.
• Assist in drafting tax policies and procedures with cross-team liaison.
• Support tax technical training programs.
• Contribute to National Tax initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and controls across taxes.

Skills

Tax technical background

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Networking skills

Ability to work with all grades

Education

ACA or ATT and CTA preferred

Job description

Our National Tax team is recruiting for an Assistant Manager with either a corporate tax, personal tax or mixed 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 fee-earning tax teams at Saffery.

Responsibilities

• Keeping up-to-date with tax developments and helping the team to communicate them.
• Helping the team share the impact of relevant tax changes with clients and potential clients, such as through contributing to website articles.
• Assisting with sharing information and best practice across teams on tax matters.
• Assisting colleagues resolve technical and risk related tax queries.
• Assisting with responses to tax-related consultations.
• Assisting with our response to the Budget and co-ordinating other key fiscal announcements.
• Ensuring our internal tax knowledgebase is complete and up to date, especially following tax changes.
• Assisting with the file review process for tax in order to manage risk across the firm, including contributing to reviewing and improving the current process and identifying and implementing improvements based on results.
• Assisting with reviewing/writing tax policies and procedures, including liaising with various teams across the firm to gather information as required for this.
• Helping run our tax technical training programmes.
• Helping with other National Tax initiatives, as needed.
• Assisting with compliance process improvements across all taxes, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency and strengthen process controls.

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 or ATT 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.

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.

Saffery is a partner-led and people-focused firm of chartered accountants, tax and business advisers. Since 1855, we've built long-term relationships with our diverse, high-profile clients, across varied and specialised sectors. As a proud member of Nexia, a worldwide network of trusted member firms, we've got access to local insight on a global scale. We pride ourselves on our informal and inclusive culture, building an environment where people can be themselves and enjoy challenging, interesting, rewarding careers. When you work with Saffery, the well-respected accountancy firm where heritage meets ambition, you work with people who know your name. Who know you as a human being, not just a job title. Everyone belongs here. Always.

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.