Brewer Morris
Head of Private Client Tax
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
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.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
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
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
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.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location