Tax Compliance Manager

Shepherd and Wedderburn are currently recruiting for a Tax Compliance Manager to join their Tax team. The current team structure consists of a Senior Manager and two Tax Assistants all based in Edinburgh. The team works on a portfolio of high net worth individuals and other individual clients of the firm, together with a large number of trusts and estates. The team also carries out ancillary work such as CGT 60 day reporting for residential property transactions.

The successful candidate can be based at our Edinburgh or Glasgow office with Hybrid Working.

The role Main Duties

• Managing the junior members of the Tax Compliance Team (currently 2 full-time employees).
• Advising clients in relation to tax returns, claims and elections, and tax liabilities.
• Assisting the senior manager to ensure that procedures are in place to obtain information from clients to enable tax returns and provisions to be prepared within appropriate timescales.
• Reviewing tax returns for individuals, trusts, charities and estates prepared by the Team to ensure high service levels.
• Ensuring that procedures are in place for tax returns and forms to be submitted timeously to HMRC and for tax to be paid within relevant time limits.
• Ensuring that fees are issued in a timely manner by the Team.

Candidate Profile

• Recent tax compliance experience ideally with knowledge of trusts and estates.
• Experience of advising clients in relation to tax compliance.
• Experience in the use of tax software and HMRC online forms.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Recent experience of managing a team.
• A proven ability to interact successfully with clients, sometimes in difficult situations.
• Keen to expand knowledge of tax and develop wider experience.

Technical Skills/Experience

• Demonstrates appropriate knowledge of tax compliance and tax law.
• Ability to communicate successfully with a wide range of clients.
• Ability to implement procedures to ensure high service levels.
• Effective spoken and written advocacy skills.

Business/Work Management

• Ability to manage the Team to meet objectives within agreed timescales and budgets.
• Complies with all firm policies and procedures, including financial, and legal and regulatory requirements.
• Keeps clients and colleagues up-to-date with latest developments where appropriate.
• Suggests and implements improvements in working methods.
• Makes effective use of the firm's information management systems and financial systems.

Firm Contribution

• Displays a commitment to ensuring the Team meets relevant targets.
• Participates in development of new Team objectives.
• Participates willingly in business development and, where appropriate, client and firm events.

Other Information

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At Shepherd and Wedderburn we strive to provide a supportive, inclusive and high performance working environment, where everyone feels they belong. Diversity and inclusion is at the heart of our business and we therefore welcome applicants from different backgrounds to all levels of the organisation. To foster inclusivity we particularly encourage applications from those who may be from underrepresented groups, including candidates from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBT+ people, people with disabilities or who are neurodivergent and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.