Private Client Tax Senior Manager​/Director

In a nutshell

Are you an experienced Senior Manager or Director with expertise in trust taxation, ready to take on a fresh and rewarding challenge in a firm dedicated to supporting your professional growth?

As a leader in our Trust Tax team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering an outstanding tax compliance and advisory service to our diverse portfolio of private client tax clients. This includes advising on complex trust structures, inheritance tax planning, and succession strategies, ensuring tailored solutions for high-net-worth individuals, families, and trustees. Your leadership will drive excellence in all aspects of our work, from compliance to sophisticated advisory projects.

Joining our team means stepping into a role where your insights and expertise will help shape the direction of our private client tax services, making a meaningful difference to our clients while furthering your career in an environment that values your contribution and development.

• Ensure compliance with legislative and ethical standards within the Trust team
• Resolve client issues efficiently, meeting timescales and budgets
• Lead and develop a team of advisors
• Liaise with trustees, beneficiaries, individuals, and intermediaries to provide top-tier service
• Act as principal on a portfolio of trust and high-net-worth clients, reviewing and signing off advice
• Review and advise on trust accounts
• Play an active role in marketing and business development for trust services
• Support team growth and expansion of the trust business
• Upskill colleagues in other departments to manage risk and identify opportunities
• Meet with clients to assess and advise on tax planning, overseeing delivery by team members
• Work with Private Client tax partners to identify key opportunities and risks
• Promote firm-wide services, especially financial planning
• Ensure work is allocated effectively and departmental targets are met
• Assist in the running of the trust corporation

• Previous experience in similar role
• ATT or CTA qualified (or equivalent) with up-to-date technical knowledge (STEP qualification is desirable)
• The ability to lead a team and inspire them to become the best advisors they can
• Highly motivated with the ability to engage with clients with significant levels of wealth and with colleagues at all levels
• Organised and able to plan time efficiently in order to meet deadlines
• Demonstrates a creative approach to problem solving with a strong desire to succeed

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.

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