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Private Client Tax Senior Manager - UK/US Dual Handler


Job Title: Private Client Tax Senior Manager
Location: London
Salary: Up to £85,000 + package

A Tax Senior Manager is expected to manage a large and varied portfolio of clients with complex US and/or UK tax affairs, ensuring excellent client service both from compliance and advisory standpoints, whilst signing out most completed tax returns. They will have a number of staff allocations, some of whom they will directly manage and be expected to influence their development


Responsibilities for this role include:

  • Tax Senior Managers have responsibility for running their allocated client list, ensuring clients receive a high level of service;
  • Take the lead in the billing processes and ensure deadlines are met;
  • Tax Senior Managers are expected to carry out accurate and complex final reviews, ensuring risks are minimised and high standards are maintained;
  • Sign out completed tax returns as agreed with senior staff;
  • Tax Senior Managers should have sufficient knowledge of other areas of tax (such as estate/gift tax, IHT and corporate tax) to be able to identify when to involve other experts within the company to identify appropriate departments to involve;
  • Tax Senior Managers should demonstrate continued development of their management skills, providing support and guidance to allocated junior staff members;
  • Ensure the technical, personal and administrative development of allocated staff and deal with personnel issues with guidance from HR;
  • Tax Senior Managers are ultimately responsible for ensuring all compliance work meets expected standards - this includes minimising risk and ensuring an excellent level of client service is maintained;
  • Ensure all clients receive an exceptional level of service: organising and prompting when necessary to meet all deadlines;


Requirements for this role include:

  • Experience of dealing with the full range of client tax requirements;
  • Experience of signing out US/UK tax returns
  • Experience of managing junior members of staff
  • Good people management skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Highly numerical and able to interpret financial data
  • Sound IT skills
  • Must be able to build strong working relationships with other members of staff.
  • The role requires them to be able to persuade and also push back with respect when dealing with difficult clients.
  • Must be able to work in a team as well as independently.
  • They should support colleagues and provide assistance when required.


If you are interested in this role please apply directly or form information call Matthew Barber on 0207 4307 281