Senior Associate - Southampton, United Kingdom - Foot Anstey LLP

Foot Anstey LLP

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Southampton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're seeking to recruit a motivated and experienced Private Client Senior Associate to join our UK Succession & Tax team based from our Southampton or Bristol office, with flexible hybrid working.

You will be joining a highly regarded and successful team with a strong reputation for high quality regional and national High Net Worth work.

As part of our broader Private Wealth sector, you will be leading key client relationships from the outset, working in a collaborative and encouraging environment where you will be supported to further develop your expertise and profile.

What you'll do

Working directly with Rachel Brooks as a senior member of the UK Succession & Tax team, you will be working on complex private client matters with High Net and Ultra High Net Worth individuals and their advisors.

Many of our clients own rural estates and the team works closely with our Farms, Estates and Rural Land specialist team to ensure the client receives the very best advice when they need it.

Focussing on getting to know and understand your client's context and priorities in order to offer a premium advisory service to them in the long-term, you will work on complex non-contentious matters including wealth, estate and tax planning, trust advice, probate administration and drafting of wills as appropriate.

We're keen to ensure that you experience the right balance of independence and support to manage your own matters, and you'll appreciate the importance of work being done at the right level in the best interests of the client.

As part of the wider Private Wealth team with approximately 30 colleagues, you will be working alongside other specialist lawyers and benefit from trainee and paralegal support.

You'll be supervising juniors, enabling them to benefit from your skills and expertise, and appreciate the importance of developing of the team and their confidence with clients.

Tailored to suit your needs and experience to date, we will provide you with the opportunities to continue developing your skills.

If you're enthusiastic about business development - both for the team and the firm more widely - we will actively encourage you to engage with business development opportunities and take part in networks which are such an integral part of this area of practice.

We're passionate about partnering with clients to really understand what they want to achieve and how we can support them in this in order to build long lasting and rewarding relationships with them.

We'll encourage you to increase your commercial understanding of clients' contexts through relevant insights and shared expertise to enable you to offer practical advice at the right time, on an ongoing basis.

In return for your commitment and motivation, we will offer you excellent career development opportunities, along with a combination of structured and flexible learning and development options to suit you as you progress.

Through access to our Business Skills Academy, you'll benefit from all the support you need to develop your confidence, networking and client facing skills, whilst continuing to develop your technical skills.

By working together, we'll ensure you have the right environment to flourish to help you achieve your longer-term career ambitions.

What we're looking for

Ambitious and enthusiastic with around 5 years PQE or more, you have already gained good quality experience of working with High Net Worth clients in a similar sized firm.

You are eager to expand your profile and private wealth network in the region and are motivated to progress your career.

You have the aptitude for the technical nature of private client work, and an enthusiasm for building lasting relationships with a range of clients.

As a natural communicator with the proven ability to forge strong and effective relationships with clients, you understand and appreciate some of the considerations and issues our clients face and have a commercial and pragmatic outlook to providing appropriate and well-informed advice.

Being motivated to deliver an exemplary service to clients every day, you are keen you are keen to share your knowledge with juniors in the team, providing them with support when needed as part of your own professional development and career progression.

It's important to us that you are team focussed, and enthusiastic about working collaboratively across the wider private wealth sector to seek out business opportunities whilst prioritising excellent client service.

This is a great opportunity if you're keen to develop a more prominent profile with clients and referrers in the region whilst progressing your career.

Our offer to you
In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development.

We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level.

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