Head of Private Client Tax & Accounting - International Law Firm
Overview
A leading professional services firm is seeking a Head of Private Client Tax & Accounting to lead a specialist function within its private client practice.
This is a senior, hands-on role combining technical expertise, client advisory work, and team leadership. The successful candidate will manage a portfolio of complex private clients while overseeing tax compliance and trust accounting activities, working closely with senior stakeholders across the wider business.
The Practice
The private client practice advises high-net-worth individuals, families, trustees and related structures on a wide range of tax, fiduciary and advisory matters.
The Tax & Accounting team plays a key role in delivering this offering, with responsibility for:
- Personal tax compliance for UK and international clients
- Trust administration and tax reporting
- Regulatory reporting and interaction with tax authorities
- Supporting wider advisory work across private client matters
The team works with a diverse client base including entrepreneurs, senior executives and globally mobile individuals with complex financial affairs.
The Role
This is a leadership role with responsibility for managing the personal tax and trust accounting function, including supervision of a small specialist team.
The successful candidate will take ownership of a mixed portfolio of private clients and play a critical role in supporting broader advisory work across the practice.
The position offers a high degree of autonomy, with direct interaction with senior stakeholders and involvement in complex, high-value client matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading the personal tax compliance function, including oversight of annual reporting cycles
- Managing a portfolio of UK and international private clients
- Advising on complex technical matters, including:
- Statutory residence and domicile
- Remittance basis and international tax considerations
- Estate and inheritance tax matters
- Overseeing trust accounting and tax compliance, including:
- Periodic and exit charge reporting
- Capital gains tax considerations
- Trust registrations and ongoing regulatory obligations
- Supervising and supporting trust and tax team members, providing technical guidance and oversight
- Managing interactions with tax authorities, including enquiries, investigations and disclosures
- Overseeing international reporting requirements (e.g. AEOI frameworks)
- Providing technical input to support legal/advisory colleagues on complex client matters
- Delivering bespoke tax and accounting support on ad hoc projects
Candidate Profile
- Professionally qualified (e.g. ACA, CTA, STEP or equivalent)
- Extensive experience in personal tax compliance
- Strong technical knowledge of UK tax, with exposure to trusts and fiduciary structures
- Experience advising high-net-worth and/or internationally mobile clients
- Demonstrated ability to manage a team and oversee complex workflows
Skills & Attributes
- Strong technical and analytical capability
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Commercial and pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Organised, proactive and capable of managing competing priorities
- Collaborative, hands-on leadership style
Opportunity
- Senior leadership role within an established private client practice
- Exposure to complex and high-value client work
- Opportunity to shape and develop a key function
- Close collaboration with senior stakeholders across the business
- Scope for growth and long-term career progression
If this role sounds of interest, please contact Sally McIntyre-Brown on sallymcintyre-brown@brewermorris.com for more information and a confidential discussion.