Accountancy ManagerAccountancy Manager - Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom - First 2 Recruit

Description

Manager - Personal Tax (Accountancy Practice Based) - Yorkshire
Manager - Personal Tax (Accountancy Practice Based) - Yorkshire


Job Type:
Permanent

I am looking for a Personal Tax Manager based at my clients growing Yorkshire office to provide additional support to the team.

The successful applicant will manage the compliance process, be involved in the administration of the portfolio and assist with planning and projects.

The position will involve supervising and reviewing the work of junior staff within the group, together with the manager peer group to ensure high quality output.

There will also be opportunities to get involved in a variety of advisory projects.

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

This is a challenging and interesting client facing role which provides a good range of work for someone with a similar tax background wishing to build on their experience.

Identification of planning opportunities
Completion of self-assessment tax returns for wealthy individuals, partnerships and trusts
Completion of associated tax computations including calculations of capital gains on securities, chattels and property transactions
Completion of trust and estate tax returns
Looking after the tax affairs of high net worth private clients, including non-UK domiciliaries
Meeting billing targets
Assisting the senior manager with the management of the group

You will be committed to a career in tax and will have similar experience in either tax focused or a general practice role in a medium to large sized firm.

Similar experience of organising the delivery of tax work, problem solving and the ability to use your own initiative.

Similar experience of preparing computations from accounts.
Similar experience of advisory work or a strong desire to learn, and be familiar with, or have a desire to learn to use the tax legislation to arrive at conclusions
Similar experience of either personal tax, trusts or both, with a willingness to develop your knowledge on both.
Similar experience of using computerised tax packages is useful.
The Office
My clients Yorkshire office has approximately 65 staff.

Our client advises a wide range of commercial businesses, private individuals and not-for-profit organisations across Yorkshire and the North East of England and have strong links with the professional and financial community of Leeds, the financial capital of the region.

My client has a strong reputation in the area and their client base prominently features owner-managed, small and mid-cap businesses, and private and estate clients.

They generally need both personal and company tax advice, as well as business and strategic help and we work with clients to create integrated solutions across their related financial and business affairs.

My clients Yorkshire Tax department is made up of a team of 20 which includes two private client Partners, the Director of Corporate Tax, Three Senior Managers, three Managers, three Seniors, three Semi-Seniors and five Trainees.

The mix of work in the group is varied and consists of clients including owner managed businesses, landed estates and high net worth individuals.

The ideal individual must have dealt with a similar range of tax issues appropriate to our client base of private clients.

Similar experience operating at Assistant Manager or Manager level, CTA and or ACA/ACCA (or equivalent) qualified.
Working from home allowance of £25 a month.
~ Eligibility for the firm's Profit-Sharing Plan that runs from October to September each year. Eligibility for the discretionary bonus scheme. This is based on both individual performance and firm performance.
~ Salary reviews annually in October.
~ Twenty-five days annual leave. In addition, under the flexible benefits programme, employees are entitled to buy or sell up to five days (35 hours) holiday a year, subject to staff partner approval.
~ Life assurance cover of four times salary,
~ Private Medical - entitled to join on successful completion of probationary period
~ Contributory pension scheme (The firm will contribute 4% of salary on a matched basis with employee from their date of joining)
~ Access to a number of additional benefits with preferential rates under the flexible benefit programme, health cash plans, health screening/GP support, critical illness cover, dental and travel insurance, Techscheme, Cyclescheme, Gymflex and a Workplace ISA.

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