Tax Advisor

Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years, we have more than 500 lawyers and legal professionals based in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich and Sevenoaks. We advise businesses, government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across four principal practice groups: property, corporate services, litigation and private client advisory.

We are defined by our Next Level Law proposition. We work with our clients as a proactive partner, horizon scanning and thinking ahead to the changes, challenges or opportunities that they may face.

Next Level Law is also applied to our people. Our collegiate culture means everyone is encouraged to achieve their next level in everything they do.  RollOnFriday recently ranked us as the 5th best law firm to work at in 2024.

With our ambition to succeed, comes a strong desire to make a positive contribution to the communities we serve, and we are committed to delivering the objectives set out in our ESG strategy. Diversity plays an integral part in all that we do, with female partners comprising 40% of our partnership.

We are recognised as one of the leading regional firms in advising private clients on a broad range of issues relating to estates and private property, tax planning and family matters, our team has experienced a period of continued growth and investment. 

The Tax and Trusts Team are part of the full service Private Client Advisory Department.  They compliment the wider Private Client Advisory team, specialising in:-

- advice to private clients and trustees regarding particular events or transactions and dealing with the associated tax reporting;

- administration and taxation of trusts for individuals, families and charities. We offer a bespoke service in administering trusts, tailored to the specific needs of individual trustees and beneficiaries.

To provide tax advice to high net worth individuals and trustees on particular events or transactions and to deal with associated tax reporting (including 60 day CGT returns, IHT returns and personal tax returns).

To provide assistance to the Partner head and the Senior Tax Advisor within the Team in dealing with tax work generated from internal and external sources and to help develop and generate new work. Consequently the role will include business development activities as well as tax technical work and to further help develop the profile of the team both internally and externally.  The individual will also provide assistance to our International Tax Advisory Team on dealing with any private client tax reporting aspects.

The core duties include:

• Tax planning in relation to income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax, advising personal, trust and estate tax clients.
• Development of personal tax work and participate in business development activities
• Dealing with all forms of personal tax reporting including review of work and supervision and development of more junior colleagues

Our ideal candidate will be someone who:-

• is a personal tax advisor able to advise on a range of personal taxes including income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax;
• has some knowledge of Trusts;
• is experienced in all forms of personal tax;
• has a formal tax qualification such as STEP or ATT or CTA or similar qualification;
• has previously participated in business development activities
• enjoys being part of a team and takes initiative
• has an interest in making use of tech to improve efficiency both in terms of advice and tax compliance

We are committed to recruiting individuals on merits of suitability for each role, on the basis of qualifications and experience. All applications are treated fairly and equally regardless of sexual orientation, race, disability, religious beliefs and any other protected characteristic, ensuring that there are equal opportunities at all stages of the recruitment process.

Benefits 

• 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays
• Long Service holiday award – 1 extra week every 10 years continuous service
• Private Healthcare with BUPA (offered after probation is passed)
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme (5% employer / 5% Employee)
• Staff Profit Share / Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share)
• Life Assurance   - 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance
• Paid ESG day (Environmental, Social and Governance)
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Subsidised gym membership
• Electric car scheme
• Eye Care Voucher
• Agile Working Policy
• Dress for your Day Policy