Leads the Private Client Tax team, delivering tax advisory, compliance, and planning services. Manages client relationships, reviews high-risk tax returns, ensures regulatory compliance, and oversees team planning, development, and recruitment. Drives business development through referrals, proposals, seminars, and client presentations while managing risk, deadlines, service quality, and commercial performance.
At Larking Gowen, our people are at the heart of everything we do. Our commitment to both our employees and clients is at the core of who we are. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace culture where employee wellbeing is paramount, work-life balance is valued, and personal growth is encouraged through tailored training and development opportunities.
Larking Gowen is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Private Client Tax Manager to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership and direction to our Private Client Tax team, ensuring that we deliver exceptional service to our clients.
Job requirements
Manager
Based in Norwich
Working hours Flexible
Starting from £50,000
Job responsibilities
As the successful candidate you will demonstrate:
Technical
- Provide tax advisory services to clients, including managing tax compliance and planning projects.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, ensuring their tax needs are met.
- Manage a team of tax professionals, driving growth and direction to maintain the highest delivery of first class quality and market leading services.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with relevant tax legislation and regulations.
- Stay up-to-date with changes in tax law and regulations, ensuring that clients are informed and prepared for any changes.
- Participate in business development activities, including proposal writing and client presentations.
- Review and sign-off on high risk tax returns and other related documents.
- Work collaboratively with other departments within the firm to ensure seamless service delivery to clients. Driving forward the Firm’s values and visions with Partners across the firm.
General
- Lead client contact in place of the partner.
- Responsibility for work planning across the team.
- Involvement in the recruitment and development of members of the team.
- Developing the team to ensure long term capability, utilising necessary leadership and management skills, promoting consistency with the Firm’s values.
- Embrace the Firm’s vision, mission and values and translate these into day-to-day actions to lead and develop others.
Business development
- Actively seek out opportunities to develop and grow business within the private client tax team.
- Involvement in business development activities including developing a strong referral network, writing marketing materials for client and potential clients. Involvement in seminars.
- Maintain up-to-date understanding of client’s affairs to spot planning opportunities.
- Maintain good working relationships with clients.
- Awareness of the wide range of Larking Gowen services and ability to spot opportunities to potentially sell those services.
- Develop a strong internal network to develop.
- Active involvement in office marketing events, when appropriate, acting as an ‘ambassador’ of the Firm.
Task management
- Ensure the Firm carries out its professional duties properly.
- Managing the Firms’ risk.
- Acting as a mentor for other members of the team.
- Consistently achieve deadlines and understand the commercial implications of actions relating to productivity, recoverability, fee income and client service.
Training
- Attend training courses as identified in order to develop both technical and personal skills and keep records for compliance purposes.
Other Responsibilities:
- Adheres to the Firm’s risk management policies and procedures.
- Undertakes other duties to meet the demands of the business.
Desirables:
Education and qualification
- CTA, ACA, ACCA, (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential:
- Significant experience within practice
- Strong business acumen and commercial awareness
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop a team
- Proven ability to adapt quickly to changing deadline and priorities
- Experience in business development with a track record of securing clients
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
- Ability to respond to risks in an appropriate fashion
Desirable
- Undertaking firm-wide responsibilities
- Experience of the use of CCH
In return you will have support to establish your career with Larking Gowen at a pace that suits you both personally and professionally. We also offer benefits which include:
- Holiday 30 days plus bank holidays
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension 5% employee, 6% employer
- Medicash Plan
- Paid sickness
- Professional subscriptions
- Group Income Protection
- Annual salary review
Benefits
In return you will have support to establish your career with Larking Gowen at a pace that suits you both personally and professionally. We also offer benefits which include:
- Generous Holiday Allowance
- Life Assurance
- Pension
- Private Medical Insurance
- Medicash Plan
- Paid sickness
- Professional subscriptions
- Group Income Protection
- Annual salary review
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