Private Client Tax Senior Manager

Kreston Reeves is currently hiring several Private Client Tax Senior Manager to join of our Canterbury office.

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Kreston Reeves is an equal opportunities employer committed to fostering a diverse, fair and inclusive culture. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for our roles and equal consideration will be given to every application.

Our people are our core asset so it’s important to us that we create an environment where they are recognised, included, and valued.

Private Client Tax Senior Manager

Your role as Senior Manager is to ensure delivery of the private client tax function workflow and to directly manage a portfolio of private client tax relationships. To provide technical expertise to clients directly and to internal KR client colleagues. To provide a high quality client service experience for private client tax clients whilst ensuring adherence to individual job budgets and maximum fee recovery.
 
Scope/Reach & Key Relationships
• Assist with SL functional responsibility 
• Technical input supporting internal and external needs
• Ownership of own client portfolio/contacts for ongoing management and development
• Partners and employees who are key stakeholders of compliance clients and job specific private
client tax work
• Formal people management responsibility for one or more direct reports
• Developing and building own network of intermediaries and prospects and general new BD
involvement 
• Government bodies and external organisations such as HMRC 
 
Principal Accountabilities / Responsibilities: 
Job/Workflow & Technical Management 
• Oversee planning, prioritising, resourcing and allocation of relevant client corporate tax work
(compliance & advisory) ensuring effective team workflow 
• Ensure all client private client tax work is managed within budget in line with’ The KR Way
standards of performance’ document (e.g. the life of a tax return) and ensure obtain
appropriate director/partner sign off in line with the review process
• Provide technical input for clients and internal KR team members as appropriate 
• Manage annual tax return cycle for own client portfolio 
• Produce high quality technical advice (eg reports, letters, emails, etc) requiring minimal input
from more senior colleagues
• Be a point of contact across the firm for tax technical advice in a particular area
• Ensure full agreement from the client of work to be undertaken and communicate likely fees
prior to commencement to maximise fee recovery 
• Oversee the monitoring of work progress and ensure appropriate levels of communication with
all clients and internal stakeholders on jobs progress 
• Monitor WIP and notify clients in ‘real time’ of any expected changes to the fee quote
• Ensure team preparation of bills for own team and ensure timely sending to client
• Manage own workload with minimal input from directors upwards
• Run regular workflow meetings to ensure maximum work on track and to tackle any off track
• Developing private client tax technical skill and keeping up to date through training courses, 
appropriate research and identification of changes in legislation, HMRC policy and as a result
of cases.

• Take proactive steps to seek out tax advisory work from allocated private client tax work
• Monitor debtors and ensure appropriate levels of communication with clients to ensure
recovery of debtors. Consider whether to continue working if significant or overdue debts.
• Manage the firm’s risk through ensuring appropriate team members undertake the work, and
there is consultation with others as appropriate.

Client, Internal and External Organisational Contact
• Manage, protect and develop your own client portfolio, ensuring the firm adds maximum value
to clients which will in turn maximise fee levels
• Respond to clients’ requests for tax advice
• Confidently answer or manage questions from the client, and refer to other firm specialists (eg
in another SL) where appropriate
• Provide support and contact to clients managed by other SLs requiring private client tax input
and advice
• Ensure sufficient team contact resource is available for clients, Kreston Reeves personnel and
external organisations with self and team members as appropriate
• Ensure overall provision for high levels of client service is in place across the Private Client
Tax team 
• Provide appropriate access and support for other SLs to private client tax only clients so as to
assist the cross selling of services into the private client tax client base

Leadership, People Management and Development
• Formally line manage and ‘enable’ best performance of a team of direct reports
• Identify training (eg tax technical) and development needs of more junior colleagues & provide
training & assistance in these areas where appropriate
• Delegate work to colleagues to meet training needs and be available to assist with queries
• Ensure the defining and agreeing of formal objectives and development goals for all direct
reports in line with the private client tax SL business plan
• Monitor individual and team performance versus original objectives and departmental KPIs 
• Provide regular feedback to all direct reports on their performance on job specific standards,
ensuring praise where due and highlighting of issues for team member learning 
• Be aware of individual team member capability and aspiration, and ensure input into individual
PDPs
• Conduct regular assessments of each direct report’s competence, motivation and required
support and resources and where ‘gaps’ versus the job specification are observed, take
specific action to rectify via the creation of a personal development plan as a minimum
through the quarterly review process 
• Conduct formal appraisals versus original objectives and job specification for each direct
report every twelve months 
• Provide support for internal and external recruitment of new private client tax team members
at Private Client Tax Senior Manager level and below 
• Engender “team strength”, building a culture & framework of knowledge, trust and support for
individual growth throughout the team

Internal Financial Management & Business Planning 
• Monitor performance of team and individuals’ KPIs in line with the private client tax SL
business plan
• Where SL performance is at or above target, ensure this is communicated to own team and
the celebration of success is encouraged
• Where SL performance is below target, encourage and instigate remedial action and focus 
from self and team colleagues to rectify and improve short term performance

New Business Development
• Build own market profile/network and new BD activity so as to generate own leads and
convert leads into clients
• Pursue business development opportunities, generating own leads and seeking to convert
own and centrally provided leads into new clients
• Support the private client tax SL in delivering the required departmental incremental fee target
via networking, meeting attendance, writing of articles, business pitches and presenting at
webinars or seminars
• Develop suitably strong internal Kreston Reeves connections such that access and support
are given by all other internal departments to their own client bases
• Seek to cross refer opportunities to other Kreston Reeves SLs from client base and prospects

What's in it for me?

Kreston Reeves is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.

By joining us you can expect:

* Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience

* Opportunities to develop a varied portfolio of work with different clients

* Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership

* A genuinely supportive and collaborative environment

* A culture of learning in a stimulating environment

As well as this, we offer:

Leave –  We offer a generous annual leave allowance, Holiday buying (up to 5 days), Agile working

Retail –  Restaurant cards (Gourmet Society and Tastecard), Discount shopping, Fabyouless

Mental Wellbeing –  Employee assistance programme and counselling

Physical Wellbeing –  Vitality PMI/Westfield Hospital Treatment Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance ,  BMI Health Assessment ,  GymFlex, DNAFit, Annual flu jab

Financial Wellbeing –  5% matched contribution pension, 2x salary Life Assurance ,  Westfield Health Cash Plan ,  50% Income Protection for 5 years, Increase to Life Assurance,Increase to Health Cash Plan, Options to increase pension, life assurance and healthcare cash plan (yourself and/or family)

CSR –  Give as you earn ,  1 day off to take up volunteering opportunities. Opportunities to support our commitment to charitable causes

Travel –  Cycle to work scheme ,  Travel Insurance ,  Interest Free Season Ticket Loan (London only) ,  Interest Free Car or Motorbike Loan

Recognition –  Monthly nominations for financial awards based on culture and values demonstration, fair and transparent meritocracy

Development –  We offer continuous support and development with clear mapped progression routes across the business. Access to a calendar of training courses run internally and externally, offer paid professional subscriptions

Diversity Inclusion and Belonging –  We operate several Family friendly policies, offer Childcare vouchers and take proactive steps to create an inclusive environment

Kreston Reeves celebrates and promotes diversity and acknowledges that difference brings value to our business. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome an application from you regardless of your race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We believe in creating an even playing field for all of our colleagues, where we can all belong.