Senior Tax Adviser

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an ambitious Senior Tax Adviser to launch and lead a newly established tax and accountancy division within a growing professional services group. This is a genuine build-from-scratch opportunity, offering significant autonomy, leadership responsibility and the chance to shape the future direction of the business.

Client Details

Our client is a successful and rapidly growing financial services group with an established reputation for advising high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, business owners and prominent professionals. Having built a strong wealth management offering, the business is now investing in the creation of a dedicated tax and accountancy division to provide a fully integrated service to its client base.

The existing client network includes a number of high-net-worth and high-profile individuals, creating a rare opportunity for an experienced tax professional to build a practice with immediate access to high-quality work and referral opportunities.This position offers the chance to move beyond traditional tax advisory work and become a key leader within an ambitious business, directly influencing growth strategy, service offerings and future recruitment plans.

Description

• Establish and lead a new tax and accountancy division.

• Deliver private client tax advisory and compliance services to high-net-worth individuals, business owners and entrepreneurial clients.

• Advise clients on a broad range of personal tax matters including income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax planning.

• Support owner-managed businesses with their tax and accountancy requirements.

• Develop strong client relationships and act as a trusted adviser to high-net-worth and high-profile individuals.

• Build a sustainable portfolio of clients through referrals and business development activity.

• Work closely with wealth advisers to deliver integrated planning solutions.

• Develop operational processes, procedures and service offerings for the division.

• Ensure regulatory and professional compliance requirements are met.

• Identify opportunities to expand services across the existing client base.

• Recruit, mentor and manage future team members as the practice grows.

• Contribute to the strategic direction and long-term growth of the business.

Profile

• CTA, ACCA, ACA and/or equivalent qualified.

• Significant post-qualified experience within private client tax.

• Strong technical knowledge across UK personal taxation.

• Experience advising high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses.

• Proven ability to manage client relationships and deliver commercially focused advice.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate autonomously.

• Comfortable building new service lines and developing business opportunities.

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.

• Experience within a leadership, managerial or senior advisory role.

• Exposure to sports, media, entertainment or high-profile clients would be advantageous.

• UK/US cross-border tax experience would be highly desirable but is not essential.

• Ambitious and motivated by the opportunity to build something with genuine long-term value.

Job Offer

• Salary £

• Performance-related bonus structure

• Equity participation opportunities linked to growth milestones

• Remote Role with Travel

• Immediate access to an established referral pipeline

• Opportunity to build and lead an entire division

• Direct exposure to high-net-worth and high-profile clients

• Significant autonomy and decision-making responsibility

• Clear pathway to Director and leadership-level influence

• Opportunity to recruit and build your own team