A London based Single Family Office with varied interests that currently include Art and Film production and Property Development, is looking for a Head of UK Family Office, with strong experience of tax and legal matters.  

This position requires strong leadership skills, financial acumen, and the ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and external service providers.  

Accounting experience is a pre-requisite and familiarity with Xero is extremely useful. The successful candidate will likely have a practice background and an understanding of legal and tax implications and structures will be helpful, enabling rigorous review and discussion of documents and proposals.  

This is an extremely busy and fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will also likely have previous Family Office experience and thus understand the need to be flexible (both in range of duties and hours), autonomous and very “hands-on”, rather than relying on a support team.  

 

Responsibilities:  

  • External Service Provider Management: Build and maintain relationships with external service providers such as lawyers, accountants, investment advisors, architects, building contractors, Trustees and insurance brokers to ensure the family's interests are effectively represented.  
  • Wealth Management: Oversee all aspects of the family's financial affairs, wealth planning corporate structuring, estate planning, tax optimization, risk management, and philanthropic activities.  
  • Client Relationship Management: Serve as the main point of contact for the family members, ensuring their financial needs, goals, and preferences are understood and addressed effectively.  
  • Monitoring costs and expenditure across all projects and entities and development of new financial analysis to add to a growing suite of reporting.  
  • Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure adherence to relevant legal and regulatory requirements, including company secretarial, data privacy, financial reporting, and risk management protocols.  
  • Continual Improvement. Stay abreast of industry trends, best practices, and new technologies to enhance the efficiency of the family office operations.  
  • Team Management: Recruit, train, and lead a team of professionals to deliver high-quality services to clients, ensuring a collaborative and supportive work environment.  
  • Financial Reporting Development and Oversight: Prepare, review and develop financial reports for the corporate and personal interests.  
  • Handling corporate and personal tax matters including but not limited to VAT, corporation tax, ATED, income tax, CGT, IHT.  
  • Oversight of all family assets, properties, trusts and other relevant interests.  
  • Payroll 

 

Essential Attributes: 

  • Fully qualified ACA/ACCA.  
  • Proven experience in similar role within a family office. 
  • Experience of developing and maintaining financial analyses  
  • Proven track record of systems implementation and maintenance  
  • Excellent IT skills, demonstrable proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook  
  • Extensive management and statutory accounts experience  
  • Excellent written and verbal English  
  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail.  
  • High level of personal integrity and discretion  
  • Enquiring mind  
  • Self-motivating and solutions driven.  
  • Flexible, professional, and personable  
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills and be able to successfully communicate with people at all levels within and outside of the organisation. 

 

Salary: £150,000-£180,000. 

 

If you would like to apply for this role, please send your CV to Chloe Walker at chloew@agreusgroup.com 

 

REF: AGR805