In this episode, I give you an insight into my 9-year tax career to date, starting as a Tax Graduate and recently becoming a Tax Director.
Over the years I’ve interviewed numerous tax professionals and we’ve gotten insights into their careers, but I’ve not shared my own – not in any detail anyway.
Now we are 100 episodes, I thought it’s about time that I share more about me and my career.
I’ve split the episode into 4 distinct chapters: my first tax job (straight after university, for an employment-taxes boutique); my second tax employer (Dains, where I stayed for 7 years, leaving as Employment Tax Senior Manager); the podcast & training I do (including why I started doing them); and finally, a brief bit about the start of my current chapter, as an Employment Tax Director for PKF Smith Cooper).
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Me – Jack Bonehill
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackbonehill94/
Email: jack@thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com
Timings
- Finding my first tax job after university
- (8:00) Chapter 1: My first tax job (which was for an employment-taxes boutique):
- Being in the filing room for a whole week
- Setting the foundations of my tax career (ATT, Excel, but also getting tinnitus)
- Why I left
- How much I was paid
- (18:45) Chapter 2: Dains – from Tax Assistant to Tax Senior Manager (7 years)
- Sideways move – was it for more money?
- Not liking being an employment tax specialist so early on
- Becoming CTA qualified
- Feeling lost after CTA but how a business coach helped
- The start of reading books to help with my career – and why I think these made such a big impact on my career
- The three core areas to be a successful tax professional
- Becoming a people manager – my aim and delegation
- Job offers and potential other jobs
- (43:45) Chapter 3: The Tax Professionals Podcast, training and related
- How I came to start the podcast and why
- Reducing my tax job hours to 4 days a week and starting doing masterclasses for tax professionals
- Opportunities I’ve gotten from the podcast
- (55:15) Chapter 4: PKF Smith Cooper – becoming an Employment Tax Director
Curious about the tax job market or maybe looking to move roles?
Then get in touch with Pro-Tax Recruitment – who placed me at Dains back in 2017. Thank you Kevin Racher!
Pro-Tax helps tax professionals, like you:
- To find new roles that are a great fit to you
- To find that perfect candidate to add to your team, and
- With everything else in between – as long as it’s recruitment related!
Pro-Tax focuses solely on tax recruitment, and this allows them to give you current, informative insights into the tax market, helping you to make well-informed decisions.
Head on over to https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/pro-tax, to see their latest tax roles and their team, all of whom would be would be happy to speak to speak to you.
If nothing else, why not take a sneak peek at the current jobs and salaries? That’s something I did a lot for years!