Private Client Tax Assistant Manager

Job type:Perm
Town/City:Nottingham
County:Nottinghamshire
Salary/Rate:£40,000 - £45,000 per year great benefits
Sector:Accountancy
Job ref:1383
Post Date:02.06.26
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About the Role

Feeling ready for a tax role where you can take real ownership, build stronger client relationships, and still enjoy a healthier balance outside of work?

This Private Client Tax Assistant Manager opportunity in Nottingham could be a strong next step if you enjoy working with high-net-worth individuals, business owners, trusts, and more complex private client matters. You'll manage an established portfolio, become a trusted contact for your clients, and support junior team members as they develop their own tax careers.

As a Private Client Tax Assistant Manager, you'll be joining a growing private client tax team where your technical knowledge, people skills, and proactive approach will be genuinely valued. You'll have the chance to stretch yourself, explore advisory work, and progress within a clear career framework, without feeling like your work-life balance has to be sacrificed.

For an ambitious Private Client Tax Assistant Manager looking for variety, responsibility, and room to grow, this is a role worth exploring.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage a portfolio of private clients including HNW individuals, business owners, trusts, and complex cases
  • Act as a key point of contact, building strong and trusted client relationships
  • Review self-assessment tax returns and supporting computations
  • Support, mentor, and guide junior members of the team
  • Identify opportunities for tax planning and advisory work
  • Help deliver accurate, timely, and high-quality private client tax services

The Ideal Candidate

  • Strong private client tax experience
  • CTA qualified, qualified by experience, or equivalent
  • Confident managing a portfolio independently
  • Experience reviewing tax returns and supporting junior colleagues
  • Clear communicator with a client-focused approach
  • Organised, proactive, and comfortable managing deadlines
  • Knowledge of CCH would be useful, alongside Excel and Word

What's on Offer

  • £40,000 - £45,000 salary
  • Nottingham office location
  • 37.5 hour working week with flexibility around business needs
  • 31 days holiday including bank holidays and Christmas shutdown
  • Option to purchase extra leave via salary sacrifice
  • Private medical insurance
  • Life assurance at 4x salary
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
  • Pension scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Employee discount platform
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Clear career framework and progression routes

Register your interest by applying today or call Richard Davies or Luke Scale on 01926 290 290 to discuss this opportunity further, always in complete confidence.

Addington Ball is a specialist finance and accounting recruitment consultancy covering the Midlands and Northern Home counties. We are a member of TEAM and are acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Job ref - ABJ/261383 - Private Client Tax Assistant Manager.

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