Senior Trusts & Tax Manager

Guildford Accountancy & Finance team are seeking an experienced Senior Trusts & Tax Manager for a leading UK and international law firm.

The role offers excellent quality work in a collegiate and supportive environment and candidates should be committed to developing their technical skills with the support of active mentoring from colleagues and the firm’s Knowledge team to service clients and develop their own careers as well as to mentoring and supporting the development of more junior members of the team.

Vacancy Details
• Salary £70,000 - 85,000 Circa
• Location: Guildford
• Hybrid agile working policy
• Flexible working options

Duties include:
• To undertake fee-earning work and provide a profitable contribution to the work of the division.
• To contribute to the successful development of the firm in line with the business plan and firms commonality of purpose.
• To deliver a high quality commercial legal service ensuring personal compliance with quality standards and professional ethics.
• Provide direct assistance to the Trust and Tax Director and tax/accountancy support to the wider Private Client team.
• Lead on client relationships, progressing matters to successful conclusion.
• Liaise with clients, intermediaries and tax authorities in a clear and relevant manner.
• Identify and advising on tax-planning opportunities for clients.
• Supervision and preparation of:
     o Trust and estate accounts
     o Company and personal, estate and trust tax computations
     o HM Revenue & Customs forms associated
     o Various accounting reports for UK and overseas tax compliance matters
• Assist in overseeing the team’s caseload of individuals, trusts and estates.
     o Preparation of tax forms including SA100, SA900, IHT100, CT600
     o Preparing CGT calculations
     o Preparing trust accounts
     o Preparing estate accounts
     o Preparing 60 day CGT submissions
     o Preparing non-resident trust tax pool calculations
• Assist and provide tax advice to clients of the firm
• Support in business development opportunities for the team
• Support development of Trainee Tax and Accounts Manager.

The ideal candidate:
• Enthusiastic and motivated to learn at a fast pace, with the desire to further increase
• Knowledge and progress to leadership positions.
• A strong team orientation, working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve the teams strategic aims.
• Competent user of business information systems and in particular advanced user of MS Excel.

Qualifications Knowledge and Skills
• Must have completed ATT qualification, along with having specialist knowledge of relevant area of law.
• Expected to have completed or begun CTA qualification
• Receptive to facilitate and support change
• Comfortable working under pressure with the ability to plan and prioritise work; appreciation of fee earner needs and constraints; commercially aware
• Achieve the competencies for an Associate level member of the team.
The firm operates a hybrid agile working policy allowing employees to work from home (or another UK location) for at least 50% of their time. Individuals can also apply for other flexible working options either at the time of recruitment or during the course of their employment.

Next move:
If this is something that it of interest and you have the right skills, qualifications and background, please do apply.