Personal Tax Senior Manager / Manager
Location: Cheltenham
Salary Indicator: £40,000 - £52,000

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a dedicated Team of 23 people advising Legal practices.

Our client is looking to add additional depth of experience in taxation to ensure that further growth can be achieved, without compromising client service standards. Their Legal practice clients consist of partnerships, LLPs, and Limited companies. The work will be extremely varied, and will include a considerable amount of strategic advice, report writing, and one off tax planning work. The role offers the potential for significant development, and also the opportunity to develop a client portfolio, with possible (and desired) partner progression.

Responsibilities:

Supervision of a Team of 3 other senior Tax staff in their Legal Team, and also 2 more junior Tax Team members
Smooth and consistent delivery of tax compliance and planning services to our clients by the whole Team.
Ability to carry out planning and project type work. Once you are familiar with their clients, and the sector, they would expect you to work towards being able to complete these projects without need for significant amounts of partner review.
Some tax file reviews, particularly for larger clients, to ensure that our service to them is both complete, and continually different, out of the box, and more joined up than that offered by other accountancy practices.
Business development work, including the writing of articles for inclusion in our in-house newsletter, Legal Focus, Press Releases, etc, presentations to potential clients, and so on.
Active involvement in the development and growth of the Legal Team, including participation in tender presentations, seminars, other professional development activities, etc. You will be one of the more visible members, becoming one of the main points of contact for clients, contacts, potential clients

Skills:

ACA/ACCA qualified with proven experience of professional practices and both accounts and taxation.
CTA desirable, otherwise a strong tax knowledge/experience generally
Business Development and Client Management skills.
Well developed management skills e.g. coaching, motivation and organisation.
Personal Effectiveness (i.e. influence, managing change, resilience, initiative, adaptability, energy, integrity, analysing and solving problems, team work, communication - written and oral).