Personal Tax Executive

About the role

We are looking to recruit a talented Personal Tax Executive to join our expanding Plymouth based Personal Tax/Private Client team.

This role will give you the opportunity to work with and advise a range of clients including high net worth individuals, private clients, business owners and directors.

This position can offer a clear progression path and will enable you to develop your tax knowledge further through the completion of interesting and diverse pieces of work.

You will need to be passionate about delivering an excellent service to your clients and will enjoy coaching and developing more junior team members into becoming competent tax professionals.

This role will enable you to take full advantage of the hybrid working that we offer to all of our people. Whether you’re working from the office, from home or from a client site, we support our people to achieve the right balance of flexibility in line with delivering excellent client service.

Full study support (CTA, ACA, or ACCA) is available with this position if required.

Responsible for providing a comprehensive tax compliance service to a broad portfolio of clients, this role will allow you to build advisory experience whilst utilising the strong tax compliance experience you will have already gained.

Day to day responsibilities will include:

• Personal Tax compliance completion and reviews for a range of individuals, partnerships and trusts and estates
• Remuneration planning for company directors and shareholders including advising on benefits in kind
• Capital tax planning
• Property tax projects
• Inheritance tax reviews and reports
• Supporting Partners and Managers on delivery of tax advisory assignments and planning projects
• Wealth Management advice

There is scope to shape this role to the experience and motivations of the appointed candidate.

About You

To be considered for the role, you will have:

• The ATT or ACA/ACCA qualification (or equivalent). Being CTA qualified or part qualified, or looking to study towards the CTA qualification would be advantageous
• Tax compliance experience gained from within a mixed tax and/or personal tax environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills that enable you to build rapport with people at various levels
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to work well under pressure

Why Bishop Fleming?!

At Bishop Fleming, we take pride in putting our people first. We are a Great Place to Work® certified and offer an outstanding work environment, strong office culture and extensive perks (listed below). We’re also a rapidly growing Top 30 Accountancy firm and have just been ranked fifth in the Accountancy Age Mid-Tier Power Rankings. We’re proud to be the highest ranked firm in the South West. This comes on the back of nearly 20% growth last year, several award wins, and record-breaking recruitment taking our headcount to 40 partners and close to 500 people. 

We are a firm that thinks clients, people and communities. As a member of Business in the Community (BITC) we are focussed on improving our responsible business practices and collectively making positive impacts for the benefit of society.

If that’s not enough, we offer a fantastic range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus Christmas off!

• Hybrid working
• A contributory Pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Simply Health cashback plan including access to 24/7 online GP service and counselling services
• Perkbox discounts and rewards platform with over 4,00 perks and discounts
• Yulife employee wellbeing app
• Social events with active social committees that plan internal and external events
• Free tea & coffee in all our offices
• Free fresh fruit
• Numerous opportunities for development

Please contact Pippa Clarke; Tax Partner if you would like to discuss this opportunity further.

We welcome applicants who would like the flexibility in their working arrangements, including working from home or part time working, which may help to accommodate parent or carer responsibilities, further studies and activities outside of work.

We are committed to welcoming new people into an inclusive working environment, where everyone is given equal opportunity to reach their full potential. We support a culture where people are valued and treated fairly with respect and differences are understood and celebrated.

The more varied our workforce, the broader the expertise within our business. The broader our expertise, the greater our chances of innovation and success. That's why we're committed to equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion at every level.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.