Personal Tax Manager

Imagine a place where you are supported to continually expand your knowledge and skills, whilst gaining recognition for your hands-on work with interesting and high calibre clients. That’s Rouse – a collaborative, encouraging workplace, where our culture is driven by our four core values of Respect, Integrity, Care and Excellence which are integral and play a part in everything we do.

About Rouse

With a history spanning over a century, we’re an independent, well-established firm of over 90 team members with a proven track record of delivering high quality financial solutions for our clients and proudly featuring in the top 100 UK accountancy firms.

We recognise that our strength lies in our people, therefore, our focus is to invest in our greatest asset, our staff, creating an impressive team across all sectors of accounting.

Whilst we are devoted to providing a first-class service to our clients, you will find we are not your everyday accountants, we have no formal dress code; we’re creative, forward-thinkers, who love to explore advances in technology and new ways to help clients.

Our clients are based across the UK, and as members of Praxity, the largest alliance of accounting firms in the world, it’s quite likely that you will also be working with international clients – perhaps giving your career a steppingstone into new directions.

We are proud to offer best-in-class learning and development programmes, career progression opportunities, job recognition, wellness initiatives and flexible working to suit your work/life balance.

About you

As a Personal Tax Manager, you will be working within a supportive environment where you will be encouraged to develop and progress.  Your individual efforts and contributions are recognised and rewarded, bringing further opportunities for career development and progression.

Key responsibilities and skills

In this role you will manage the team in conjunction with the Senior Tax Manager and Partner(s) to ensure timely and accurate delivery of technical tax services. This will include:

• Managing your own private client portfolio. This mainly involves the delivery of self-assessment tax returns but can also include advisory work that arises from the portfolio, billing and managing work in progress.
• Providing high level tax planning advice, including IHT, CGT and Trusts.
• Managing more junior members of the team to deliver on your portfolio.
• Responsibility for departmental initiatives and programmes whilst continuing involvement in supervision, training and development of the team.
• Possible line management of more junior members of staff
• Ensuring tax department administration is kept up to date, and routine administration dealt with in a timely manner.

Essential Skills and Experience

The ideal person for this role will be well organised and able to work to agreed timescales, whilst having the ability to actively engage with clients, including:

• ATT/CTA qualified
• Minimum 9 years relevant tax experience
• High professional standards of conduct and practice.
• Effective people management, coaching and supervisory skills
• Up-to-date technical knowledge
• Able to build excellent relations by communicating effectively at all levels with colleagues and clients.
• Accurate documentation of work and ability to use initiative
• Able to take appropriate level of responsibility to maintain a high quality of work.
• Able to use tact and diplomacy to deal with difficult situations with clients and colleagues.
• Flexibility in considering different points of view and options available.