Tax Compliance Manager

The Shepherd + Wedderburn Tax 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.

Our current Tax Team structure consists of a Tax Compliance Manager, three Tax Assistants and associated administrative support across our Edinburgh and Glasgow offices.

This position is a hybrid working role based at our Edinburgh office.

• Managing the junior members of the Tax Compliance Team (currently 3 full-time employees).
• Advising clients in relation to tax returns, claims and elections, and tax liabilities.
• Working alongside the existing 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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