We’re working with one of London’s mid-sized accountancy firms, who have built a strong reputation in the private client field. They offer high quality work, swift progression, great work/life balance and the opportunity to have a voice. Many CTAs are attracted by the chance to be more than a face in the crowd and to build a name for themselves. Some are looking to position themselves for director and partner grades.

Our client advises an impressive client list of HNW entrepreneurs, business owners, international families, family offices and trusts. Many of their clients are international in nature. The Private Client Tax team is growing and keen to recruit a CTA Manager, to perform a broad-ranging, client-facing role:

• Provision of income and capital taxes planning advice to UK and international HNWIs
• Ongoing management of client relationships including identifying planning opportunities
• Assisting Partners with new client development and third-party networking
• Welcoming and onboarding new HNW clients
• Billing and WIP management responsibilities
• Overseeing junior advisers and the annual tax compliance process

The CTA qualification is a pre-requisite, along with extensive experience of advising on CGT and IHT planning issues, including those relating to residence, remittance and the FIG regime.

In return, you’ll be supported with your development towards Senior Manager grade and be give the responsibility and opportunity to grow as an adviser.

The firm encourages a healthy work/life balance and has adopted hybrid working 2-3 days a week. This is a supportive and sociable environment, with a strong track record of hiring and developing advisers from across the larger London firms.

Salary will be dependent on experience but is likely to be in the region £65,000 - £72,000 + benefits. Ref.5218

To find out more about this opportunity just email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting Ref 5218

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A rare opportunity to join the thriving Private Client Tax team of a respected accountancy practice.

You'll play a key role in delivering personal tax advisory services to a HNW client base of new money entrepreneurs, business owners, families and landed wealth. You'll also mentor a team of advisers, developing their skills and ensuring high quality client service levels.

This is a high profile, client relationship management role, requiring excellent communication and interpersonal skills. An in-depth knowledge of UK income tax, CGT and IHT as it applies to HNW private clients and their families is important. The CTA qualification is a pre-requisite.

You'll get involved with a broad range of private client tax work including succession planning, the use of trusts and family investment companies, advice regarding residence and the new FIG regime.

As one of the key members of the Private Client Tax team, you'll also work alongside Partners on related business development and networking initiatives, enabling you to build a name across the region.

Based in Swindon (or potentially Bath), the role offers hybrid working 2-3 days a week. The position would suit an existing Director seeking a new challenge in a friendly, sociable and supportive environment. Alternatively, the team would consider a good Senior Manager ready to step up to Director grade.

Salary will be dependent on experience but is likely to be in the region £85k-£100k + benefits.

To find out more, just email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting reference 5217

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A rare opportunity to join the thriving Private Client Tax team of a respected accountancy practice.

You'll play a key role in delivering personal tax advisory services to a HNW client base of new money entrepreneurs, business owners, families and landed wealth. You'll also mentor a team of advisers, developing their skills and ensuring high quality client service levels.

This is a high profile, client relationship management role, requiring excellent communication and interpersonal skills. An in-depth knowledge of UK income tax, CGT and IHT as it applies to HNW private clients and their families is important. The CTA qualification is a pre-requisite.

You'll get involved with a broad range of private client tax work including succession planning, the use of trusts and family investment companies, advice regarding residence and the new FIG regime.

As one of the key members of the Private Client Tax team, you'll also work alongside Partners on related business development and networking initiatives, enabling you to build a name across the region.

Based in Bath (or potentially Swindon), the role offers hybrid working 2-3 days a week. The position would suit an existing Director seeking a new challenge in a friendly, sociable and supportive environment. Alternatively, the team would consider a good Senior Manager ready to step up to Director grade.

Salary will be dependent on experience but is likely to be in the region £85k-£100k + benefits.

To find out more, just email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting reference 5217

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Join one of London's most respected Private Client law firms and advise a sterling client base of trusts, beneficiaries and trustees.

You'll oversee the annual compliance cycle on a portfolio of HNW trusts, reviewing the work of junior advisers and preparing more complex accounts and returns. You'll handle key trust administration issues, assist Partners with ad hoc trust planning projects and liaise directly with clients and third-parties.

As an integral part of the Private Client team, you'll be supported with your progression towards Senior Manager grade and be given very much a client relationship management role.

Salary will be dependent on experience but is likely to be £65k-£75k + bens. Hybrid working is on offer.

To find out more, just email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting Ref 712

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Are you CTA qualified and looking to pursue your private client tax career with a high-profile, award-winning team?

We're working closely with a respected firm that has built a strong reputation for advising serial entrepreneurs, business owners, landed wealth and international HNWIs. 

They are keen to appoint an additional personal tax specialist at Assistant Manager level. The role will involve overseeing a portfolio of wealthy private clients from a range of backgrounds. You'll act as their trusted adviser and relationship manager, handling all areas of their personal tax compliance and working with leading Partners on ad hoc capital taxes planning projects.

The firm has a collegiate culture and their supportive and sociable Private Client team will assist you with progressing towards Manager and Senior Manager grades.

Based in Southampton, they offer hybrid working 2-3 days a week. Salary will be dependent on experience but is likely to be in the region £45k-£55k + bens.

To find out more and to request a full job description, please email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting Ref 5208

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If you're a personal tax CTA looking to move into an advisory-focused role, our client offers the opportunity to handle high quality private client tax planning work from their offices in either Canterbury or Chatham. There's also scope to homework a couple of days a week.

You'll work closely with high profile partners and senior managers, providing ad hoc income and capital taxes planning advice to HNW families, entrepreneurs and business owners. This is an advisory-focused role (90%), requiring the CTA qualification and a strong technical understanding of CGT, IHT and income tax issues. Some previous personal tax planning experience would be helpful but is not essential. 

As this is very much a client-facing role, excellent communication and relationship management skills are essential.

Salary will be dependent on experience, but is likely to be in the region c.£45k-£55k + bens.

This is a super opportunity to leave most of the tax return work behind and to progress your personal tax career in the HNW planning field. To find out more and to request a full job description, please email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk  quoting reference 5189.

Are you looking to build your Trusts career within a leading Private Client environment?

Our client is a prominent law firm that has built a particularly strong reputation in the Private Client field. This includes advising an impressive portfolio of HNW/UHNW trusts, their beneficiaries and trustees.

The Trusts team is now looking to recruit an additional adviser at Senior Manager level. You'll work closely with an experienced Trust Director and liaise regularly with the Private Client Partners.

Day to day, you'll take responsibility for overseeing the preparation and review of trust accounts, trust returns and associated compliance. You'll identify and advise on ad hoc trust planning opportunities and act as the key point of contact for clients and third parties. Strong communication skills are therefore essential.

You're likely to be STEP and/or CTA qualified and may also hold an accounting qualification. You will certainly possess strong technical knowledge of the taxation of trust structures and an interest in building your career towards Director grade.

Salary will be dependent on experience but is likely to be in the region £80k-£90k + bens. The team also offers hybrid working.

To find out more about this opportunity please email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting Ref 708

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We are working closely with a leading Private Client law firm, who are keen to appoint a Director level adviser to their Trusts & Tax team.

The incoming individual may already be a Director seeking a new challenge in a thriving, growing team. Alternatively, they could be a talented Senior Trust Manager looking to step up to Director grade. Either way, they are likely to be STEP qualified and hold a tax and/or accounting qualification.

The role will involve working alongside a fellow Trust Director, as well as liaising closely with some or the private client profession's leading Partners. Key duties will include:

- Managing the annual trust accounts and tax return compliance cycle

- Overseeing CGT, IHT and income tax reporting and ad hoc planning.

- Advising offshore trustees with UK resident beneficiaries.

- Offering written advice to trustees regarding the financial, tax, and trust law status of trusts under management.

- Overseeing the preparation of IHT returns for 10-year and exit charges.

- Participating in regular trustees meetings, alongside investment managers and other third-party professionals.

- Serving as the primary point of contact for trustees, beneficiaries, clients, and intermediaries.

- Overseeing trust administration, including payments to beneficiaries, coordination with investment managers, investment monitoring, and trustee act policy statements.

- Managing registrations under the trust registration service and AEOI reporting.

The incoming Trusts Director will have a willingness to take on a varied workload encompassing all elements of the work undertaken by the team. Excellent communication and relationship management skills are essential, in addition to a deep understanding of the taxation of trusts.

This is a super opportunity to perform a high profile role, within one of London's leading Private Client law firms.

Salary will be dependent on experience but is likely to be £100k-£150k + bens. Hybrid working is also on offer.

To find out more please email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting Ref 707

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This is a super opportunity for a CTA personal tax professional to play a key role in one of Cheltenham's leading Private Client teams. 

Our client has built a strong reputation in the Personal Tax field, in particular advising landed wealth, entrepreneurs, business owners, farming & bloodstock clients and HNW families. Demand for their expertise continues to grow and they now seek an additional personal tax Associate Director or Director.

The incoming individual will take responsibility for a portfolio of clients, undertaking ad hoc income tax, CGT and IHT planning work, as well as overseeing complex personal tax compliance. 

Working alongside high profile partners, it is a chance for a talented CTA to build a 'name' for themselves as one of the prominent private client advisers in the region. Support will also be provided with development towards Director grade.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience of advising on capital taxation, succession of wealth and income tax issues affecting HNW landed/farming clients. They will be a confident client-facing adviser, who also enjoys building third-party relationships.

Our client is embracing agile/hybrid working and offers home working 2-3 days a week, if the individual wishes.  

Salary is likely to be in the region £75,000 - £90,000 p.a. + benefits, dependent on experience. 

This is a genuine career option for a talented CTA looking to build their Private Client career in the Cheltenham area.

To find out more please email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting Ref 5155

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We are working with a high profile, mid-sized accountancy firm, whose Private Client offering has been independently recognised for the quality of its expertise and clients. Their Trusts team is thriving, growing and keen to appoint an additional Trust Manager.

You'll oversee a portfolio of HNW trusts and estates, as the clients' primary point of contact. Working with junior advisers, you'll review trust accounts and returns, oversee annual compliance and manage all key client relationships.

You'll also work closely with partners on identifying and advising on ad hoc trust planning projects.

As a primary client (and third-party) relationship manager, you'll need excellent communication skills, as well as strong technical knowledge of trusts, estates and associated taxation. The CTA and/or STEP qualification would be helpful.

This is a growing team, offering genuine scope for progression to Senior Manager grade. Salary will be dependent on experience but is likely to be in the region c.£62k-£72k + bens.

To find out more please email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting Ref 710

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Prominent London accountancy firm seeks a Trusts Assistant Manager to advise HNW families, their trusts and estates. 

You'll join a team of Trusts professionals, tasked with ensuring that the annual tax and accounts compliance on a portfolio of HNW trusts is completed effectively. The role will involve the preparation and review of trust and estate returns, trust accounts and associated administration. You'll also assist directors and partners with identifying and advising on ad hoc trust planning opportunities. 

This is very much a third-party and client-facing role, providing an opportunity to become a true trusted adviser. So strong communication and relationship management skills are important. 

The successful candidate is likely to be tax, trusts or accounting qualified and will certainly have demonstrable experience of handling a HNW trusts portfolio.

Based in central London, the role offers the scope to work from home 2-3 days a week. Salary dependent on experience but c.£52k-£62k + bens. The team are also keen to support the incoming individual with progression towards Manager and Senior Manager grades. Ref 709

To find out more please email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk

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We are working with the Tax Dispute Resolution team of one of the country’s leading accountancy firms. They have an award-winning Private Client Tax offering, with a highly respected Tax Investigations specialism. Demand for their expertise continues to grow and the team is keen to make a strategic hire at Manager level.

You will assist HNW clients to resolve complex tax disputes with HMRC. Acting as their trusted adviser you’ll work on enquiries, disclosures, litigation and alternate dispute resolution. Managing a portfolio of clients, you’ll need excellent project management skills, as well as the ATT, CTA or HMRC Inspector qualification. A thorough understanding of HMRC’s powers, including enquiries, information requests, assessments/claims, appeals, and penalties is important.

The role would suit a tax investigations Assistant Manager looking to step up to Manager grade, or alternatively a Tax Investigations Manager looking for a new challenge and a supported pathway towards SM grade.

The role will include:

Overseeing a portfolio of tax dispute cases.

Liaising with tax teams across the office network.

Monitoring work-in-progress and ensuring timely completion of tasks.

Regularly engaging with clients to keep them updated on project developments.

Preparing and presenting detailed client reports.

Communicating with HMRC and other third parties regarding cases.

Collaborating with senior team members to deliver high-quality projects.

Supporting and mentoring junior team members, providing training and guidance.

Attending client meetings.

Providing proactive client service by addressing inquiries and responding to questions.

Contributing to the team's business development efforts through internal and external marketing activities.

Helping to drive growth by identifying opportunities and enhancing client relationships.

The role is based in central London but offers homeworking two days a week if one wishes. Salary will be dependent on experience but is likely to be in the region £63k-£73k + Bens.

To find out more please email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting Ref 5197

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Are you looking to build your private client tax career with an award-winning, high-profile team?

We’re working closely with one of London’s most respected advisers to HNWIs. Their Personal Tax team provides advice to international entrepreneurs, UHNW families, family offices, sports & entertainment stars and dynamic business owners.

Demand for their expertise continues to grow and the team is keen to recruit an additional member at Personal Tax Assistant Manager grade. You will need to be CTA qualified with experience of advising international HNW private clients on a wide range of income and capital taxes issues. Experience of the FIG regime, residence, domicile, remittance and ATED is important.

You will take responsibility for an impressive portfolio of new-money clients, acting as a primary point of contact. You'll oversee their annual personal tax compliance, whilst also identifying and assisting with ad hoc tax planning projects. Strong relationship management and communication skills are therefore important.

The firm has been recognised for its collegiate, encouraging and supportive environment. The team offers hybrid working (typically 2-3 days a week in the office) and are keen to find someone with the ability to be supported with progression to Manager and on towards Senior Manager grade in due course. Starting salary will be dependent on experience and qualifications, but is likely to be £50k-£60k plus bonus and benefits.

If this sounds like an opportunity that may be of interest, please email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk for further details and a job description. Ref 5199

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We are working with a high quality, non-PE backed London accountancy firm that has built a particularly strong reputation in the Private Client Tax field. They are undertaking Partner succession planning and are keen to appoint a Director whom they can support with progression to Partnership in the short term. 

The team advises an impressive client list of HNW/UHNW entrepreneurs, business owners, international families, trusts and family offices. There is therefore scope to handle a broad range of interesting and challenging income and capital taxes planning work.

Very much a client-facing role, the incoming individual will nurture and develop professional relationships with the existing client base, build their own third-party referral network and (alongside several private client tax Partners) act as a high-profile ambassador for the Private Client team.

The successful candidate will be CTA qualified with a demonstrable track record of advising HNWIs on IHT and CGT planning, residence/domicile issues, property-related planning and potentially advice surrounding the extraction of wealth from businesses. They will also need to be an accomplished networker and business developer as this will form a key element of their role as they progress to partnership. 

This is a great opportunity to join a respected firm and to build one's career to Partnership within an independently recognised Private Client team. 

To find out more just email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk  quoting Ref 5210a

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An opportunity to play a strategic role in the Private Client Tax team of one of Bristol’s leading accountancy firms.

Working with high profile Partners and assisted by an experienced team, you’ll undertake ad hoc income and capital taxes planning for an impressive private client base of HNW entrepreneurs, business owners and their families. You’ll be their key point of contact and advise on a range of issues from succession-planning and extraction of wealth, to trusts, property and transaction-related work.

The role requires excellent client relationship management skills and a strong technical grasp of IHT and CGT planning. You’ll need to be a confident communicator and also enjoy working with colleagues on networking and business development initiatives. 

You are likely to be an Associate Director or Director seeking a new challenge and the opportunity to really make a difference. Top end Senior Managers with relevant experience, who are looking to step up to Director will also be considered. The CTA qualification is a pre-requisite.

In return you’ll join a top-tier firm, offering a supportive environment that values work/life balance. Scope exists to work from home 2-3 days a week and flexible hours can be accommodated. You’ll also have the opportunity to really stretch yourself in what is a genuine meritocracy.

To find out more please email michaelhowells@howellsconsulting.co.uk quoting Ref 5139

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