Private Client Tax Manager

In a nutshell

Are you a tax professional eager to accelerate your career within a firm that prioritises your growth and development?

By joining our dynamic tax team, you will have the opportunity to deliver exceptional tax compliance and advisory services to a diverse portfolio of personal tax clients. This includes working with trusts and high-net-worth (HNW) individuals. You will play a crucial role in ensuring our clients receive top-tier service, leveraging your expertise to navigate complex tax matters and provide insightful advice.

We are committed to supporting your professional journey, offering continuous learning opportunities and a collaborative environment where your skills and career can flourish.

What you'll be doing day to day

• Look after a portfolio of cases, including some trusts as well as high net worth individuals
• Drafting reports and letters providing tax advice including IHT planning, residence and domicile
• Meeting with clients to ascertain and advise on their tax planning needs
• Undertake CGT advice on property, shares etc for both UK resident and non-UK resident individuals
• Reviewing the work of more junior staff and contributing to their professional learning and development
• Providing and managing compliance services including preparing and reviewing self-assessment tax returns and computations
• Actively seeking opportunities to promote other departments within in the firm, and in particular the services of our financial planning colleagues
• Request, collate and maintain client information
• Correspond and deal confidently with client enquires
• Maintain direct contact with clients, HMRC, solicitors, other accountancy, law and professional services firms, in the delivery of an excellent client service

About you

• Previous experience in a tax compliance and advisory role and drafting reports
• ATT or CTA qualified (or equivalent) with up-to-date technical knowledge
• Understanding of compliance standards imposed by the various regulatory authorities for tax
• Organised and able to plan time efficiently in order to meet deadlines 
• Professional and discreet in demonstrating client care, with the ability to build rapport quickly with clients

Why work at PKF Francis Clark

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisers in South West England, PKF Francis Clark offers a breadth of opportunities to develop your career in the way that’s right for you. 

Established in 1919, we’ve grown to a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro. This means we’re big enough to do challenging work for exciting clients, but small enough to maintain our friendly and supportive culture. 

We work hard to ensure you can belong, be yourself and be brilliant as part of a forward-thinking team. This includes a flexible approach to hybrid working. And our focus on wellbeing and learning and development has been recognised nationally. 

For the past three years, PKF Francis Clark has been certified as a Great Place to Work and ranked among the UK’s Best Workplaces. In 2025, we climbed four places to 20 out of 100 large organisations on this prestigious list. 

We’re also in the UK’s top 10 Best Workplaces for Women (6 out of 100 large organisations), as well as being ranked among the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (35 out of 100), Best Workplaces for Development (24 out of 100) and Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services. 

All these lists are compiled by workplace culture experts Great Place to Work. Our rankings are a direct result of feedback from our people in a confidential, independent annual survey. 

The success rates of our trainees mean we’re also ranked 33rd in The Sunday Times Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers 2025. 

While we’re proudly independent, we collaborate with colleagues around the world to enable our clients to succeed. PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of firms – together we’re the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK. Being part of this international network provides opportunities to connect with like-minded accountants and business advisers in 150 countries. 

Your core benefits 

Financial benefits:
•    Pension
•    Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
•    Group income protection
•    Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare 

Health & Wellbeing benefits:
•    Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
•    Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
•    Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
•    Cycle to work*

Other benefits:
•    Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
•    Gifts for career and family milestones
•    One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
•    Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation 

Please note
* These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee’s post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.