Senior Manager/ Associate Director

At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK's top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations.

Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose—to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary.

Real Estate Tax at S&W

The Real Estate Group at S&W incorporates people from across our Tax, Transactions, Assurance and Advisory service areas. In Real Estate Tax, we provide tax advisory and compliance services to UK and international property investors and developers, including funds and asset managers, REITs, overseas investors, housebuilders, owner-occupiers, landed estates, and private clients. We also work closely with our colleagues in Transaction Services in relation to Real Estate M&A assignments, providing financial and tax due diligence, tax structuring and transactional support services. Many clients and targets are international, whether investing from overseas into the UK or investing into assets abroad, and, therefore, many of our assignments involve working with colleagues from across our CLA Global network.

What will you be doing?

This is an exciting time to join the  Real Estate Group, as it's undergoing significant growth and Real Estate is a strategic focus sector for the firm. We are looking for candidates with specific experience in Real Estate and more specifically Stamp Tax who would thrive in a dynamic and entrepreneurial working environment. Candidates should have excellent technical skills that they can apply in both an advisory and compliance capacity, and strong client/project management skills to support senior team members with delivering advice and growing client accounts.

As a Senior Manager or Associate Director your responsibilities will include -

• You will be expected to take strategic responsibility for the Stamp Taxes practice and grow the business through leveraging internal opportunities and building external referral networks
• Delivery of complex Stamp Taxes assignments for the firm 
• Improving technical enhancement for the practise as a whole
• Establishing good practices for other parts of the business engaging with the Stamp Taxes team and build relationships with HMRC Stamp Taxes.

Key Experience 

• Significant experience in Stamp Taxes gained from practice and/or industry
• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA) and/or CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)
• Client driven and commercially minded
• Strong awareness of other key taxes and, in particular, for the Real Estate sector
• Excellent project management, working with various teams
• Demonstrable experience of managing people and clients
• Experience of dealing with senior stakeholders both internally and externally.

As a colleague here at S&W you will have access to benefits that include

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependent)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave
• Fully funded training towards professional qualifications
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Eye care support

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we're delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workplace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.