Tax Associate – Advisory – Private Client

Gillespie Macandrew is a successful independent Scottish legal firm with a strong focus on private client and property-related legal work. Our strategy focuses on 4 core sectors; Private Client, Land & Rural Business, Renewable Energy and Commercial Real Estate. To clients in these sectors, the firm offers a comprehensive range of legal services spread across 8 practice teams. With over 180 Partners and staff, we operate from offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth.

Our Private Client team is one of the largest in Scotland and is central to the strategy of the firm representing a significant proportion of the firm’s overall turnover.  We provide a full-spectrum of wealth protection, tax and inheritance, trusts and executries advice to high net worth individuals, the elderly, and family-owned and SME business owners in addition to wills, probate, executry and tax compliance services.

We have an excellent opportunity for a senior tax advisor to join our leading Private Client team, which provides tax and succession advice to a wide range of clients including landed estates, rural businesses, trusts, executries and high-net worth families.

The successful candidate will hold excellent technical tax skills, along with the confidence and ability to advise on all areas of tax planning relating to personal, succession, trust and executry taxation with support provided by the Tax partners and senior colleagues, where required. They will have experience in providing succession planning advice around Inheritance Tax (particularly APR and BPR), CGT and Income tax. A basic understanding of VAT would be an advantage but is not essential. Knowledge of LBTT and SDLT is desirable, but training can be provided. Experience of advising on tax aspects of land transactions and heritable property is also required.

This role requires a highly motivated and collaborative team player with excellent technical skills and a strong client focussed approach. The ideal candidate will be very personable and have a commitment to providing an excellent level of client service, demonstrating a strong positive, proactive attitude. Candidates will also be expected to contribute to business development opportunities and in house training to generate cross service line referrals.

The successful candidate will be ATT or CTA Qualified or be qualified by experience. Support may be available to follow the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners syllabus to achieve TEP status or other appropriate professional qualifications. It is expected they will have at least 5 years’ practical tax advisory experience and an understanding of the procedures relating to tax compliance. Applications from Solicitors with tax experience will also be considered. This is a full-time position however, consideration will also be given to part time and flexible working.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career in a modern, professional and rewarding environment, supported by a competitive remuneration and benefits package. To find out more, contact us at recruitment@gillespiemacandrew.co.uk  or ask to speak in confidence with our HR Team.

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion is valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As part of our zero-tolerance approach to discrimination in any form, you and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (Protected Characteristics). We are also committed to providing equitable treatments to all those we deal with as an organisation, including our clients and suppliers.