Assistant Manager - Agriculture & Landed Estates Team in Truro

Join our agricultural and landed estates team, where you’ll work with a wide range of prestigious clients—from traditional landed estates and heritage properties to modern agri-tech enterprises and diversified rural businesses. These clients are not only stewards of the countryside but also innovators shaping the future of rural enterprise. You’ll provide expert accounting and tax compliance services, along with strategic tax planning advice, to farming families, estate owners, and rural entrepreneurs. Your work will span everything from succession planning and capital tax advice to business structuring and diversification support.

What you’ll be doing day to day:

• Oversee the planning, preparation and completion of annual farm and rural business accounts and tax computations, as well as sole trade, partnership, company and trust accounts.
• Review personal, trust and company tax computations and regular VAT returns.
• Prepare IHT returns and CGT 60 day returns.
• Oversee client bookkeeping services and preparation of forecasts and projections.
• Undertake detailed analysis of income and expenditure to support decision making, planning and control.
• Identify financial, commercial and tax planning opportunities for clients.
• Ensure that accounting records for clients are maintained and kept up to date.
• Draft correspondence for clients; liaising with HMRC, by telephone and email.
• Provide varied administrative and business set-up services for clients.
• Exposure to various capital tax issues e.g. inheritance tax and capital gains tax.
• Network at county roadshows, farm walks or local cattle markets.
• Sharing knowledge and catching up with other rural teams across our southwest offices.
• Have opportunities to participate in meetings and visit clients on farm.

About you:

• ACA/ACCA/AAT qualified (or nearing qualification), or qualified by experience, with relevant experience in a similar role.
• Good technical knowledge of accounts preparation and tax compliance.
• Committed, logical and accurate, with a methodical approach to work and strong attention to detail.
• Experience in servicing different types of business entity.
• Experience in using accounts and tax return software.
• Able to work independently and demonstrate initiative in delivering an excellent service to clients.

Why work at PKF Francis Clark:

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisers in South West England, PKF Francis Clark offers a breadth of opportunities to develop your career in the way that’s right for you. Established in 1919, we’ve grown to a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro. This means we’re big enough to do challenging work for exciting clients, but small enough to maintain our friendly and supportive culture. We work hard to ensure you can belong, be yourself and be brilliant as part of a forward-thinking team. This includes a flexible approach to hybrid working. And our focus on wellbeing and learning and development has been recognised nationally.

Your core benefits:

• Pension.
• Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary.
• Group income protection.
• Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare.
• Option to buy 5 extra days holiday.
• Counselling and support for you and your immediate family.
• Virtual GP for you and your immediate family.
• Cyle to work.
• Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts.
• Gifts for career and family milestones.
• One volunteering day per year to support local organisations.
• Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation.