Tax Manager

Overview

As a Tax Manager in our Glasgow practice, you will oversee a client-facing portfolio of corporate and personal tax matters, delivering high-level advisory support and contributing to the growth of the firm’s tax offering. You’ll lead complex tax projects, manage relationships with business owners, and help drive business development and recruitment. The role blends technical leadership with commercial opportunity, including a commission for new client introductions, and offers progression within a growing firm.

Pay / Benefits

• Salary up to 60,000 DOE
• 20% commission for introducing new clients
• Hybrid working
• Flexible working with core hours 10am–3pm
• 35-hour working week
• 33 days’ annual leave

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of corporate and personal tax clients
• Lead complex tax advisory assignments and provide commercially focused advice
• Advise on corporate restructuring, acquisitions and disposals, succession planning, shareholder and remuneration planning, CGT, IHT and property taxation
• Provide guidance on employee share schemes, SEIS and EIS
• Review and sign off complex tax computations and returns
• Stay up to date with UK tax legislation and share developments with clients and colleagues
• Act as trusted adviser to key clients, build long-term relationships with business owners and decision-makers
• Lead client meetings and deliver practical tax advice
• Identify tax planning opportunities and assist clients with strategic decisions
• Identify opportunities to cross-sell firm services and develop new business
• Prepare proposals and assist in winning new clients
• Represent the firm at networking events and contribute to client-facing content
• Manage, mentor and support tax team members
• Review work of Managers, Seniors and Trainees; support recruitment and onboarding
• Deliver technical training; assist with departmental planning and workflow management
• Collaborate with Partners to grow the firm’s tax offering and improve processes
• Support AML controls as Assistant Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and assist with AML investigations and SARs

Key requirements

• CIOT membership/qualification – essential
• 5+ years’ post-qualification experience in an accountancy practice
• Strong corporate and personal tax experience
• Previous senior, client-facing experience
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Clear, jargon-free communication of complex tax matters
• Commercially minded with interest in business development
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Positive, proactive can-do attitude and team collaboration

• Interpersonal skills
• Relationship-building
• Clear communication
• Corporate tax advisory
• Personal tax advisory
• Tax planning and advisory for restructurings, acquisitions and disposals

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