The role

An established, FCA-regulated wealth management business in Bristol has decided to stop referring its clients' tax work out to third-party practices and bring it in-house instead. It now needs the senior tax professional who will build that capability from the ground up.

The client base is unusual: high earners from professional sport and the entertainment world, whose income tends to arrive in short, intense bursts rather than a steady career-long curve. That pattern brings a particular flavour of complexity — image rights, incorporation structures, remuneration planning, and long-term wealth preservation all sit close together for these clients, and until now that work has been sent elsewhere. The firm wants to keep it, and to open genuine two-way referrals between tax and wealth management under one roof.

This is a founding appointment, not a role that already has a desk, a process, or a team attached to it. You would be the first hire into the division, with real scope to define how it operates — pricing, service scope, workflow, the systems it runs on — before building out the team beneath you as the division grows. It sits inside a well-capitalised, national advice network backed by one of the UK's longest-standing wealth management names, so the platform and client relationships are already there; what's missing is the person to lead the tax side of it.
What you'll be doing

Building and leading the firm's tax and accountancy division from a standing start
Advising high-net-worth clients from sport and entertainment on personal tax, image rights, incorporation, remuneration structuring and long-term planning
Working alongside the wealth management team to join up tax and investment advice, and developing the referral flow between the two
Defining the service model — scope, pricing, workflow, software and compliance processes
Recruiting and developing a team as the division and the wider firm expand
Operating as a partner in the making rather than a technician delivering to someone else's brief