Jobs at Moore Kingston Smith

Advise businesses and individuals on UK immigration matters, including sponsor licences, compliance, work and family visas, settlement, nationality, and right-to-work checks. Prepare legal representations and application bundles, conduct legal research, manage client and Home Office relationships, and provide commercially focused advice. The role also supports knowledge sharing, business development, and marketing within a collaborative multidisciplinary legal practice.

Provide corporate tax advisory to corporate clients, structure transactions, prepare tax valuations and HMRC clearance, manage tax due diligence and compliance reviews, mentor junior staff, liaise with partners and legal teams, and support business development and client pitches.

Provide technical tax advice and due diligence on UK M&A transactions (circa £5m–£100m). Manage transaction workflow, prepare advisory and due diligence reports, liaise with clients and advisors, and coach junior staff.

Administer tronc arrangements for hospitality clients by calculating tips and service charges, processing large data sets, managing budgets, responding to client queries, and maintaining accurate digital records. The role requires strong Excel and numerical skills, attention to detail, deadline management, professional communication, and willingness to learn specialist tronc processes and legislation.

Manage a portfolio of private clients delivering personal tax compliance and advisory services for high-net-worth individuals, partnerships and owner-managed businesses. Act as primary client contact, handle capital gains matters, support ad hoc advisory and compliance assignments, attend client meetings, propose fees, monitor WIP and liaise with internal teams to deliver integrated tax solutions.

Leads private client tax advisory and compliance services for high-net-worth individuals, business owners, trusts, and estates. Manages client portfolios, complex UK tax matters, HMRC enquiries, reporting, and tax planning. Oversees, mentors, and appraises junior staff while monitoring performance, deadlines, work in progress, and billing. Supports business development, client relationship management, and continuous improvement of team processes.

Leads audits from planning through completion for diverse clients, overseeing fieldwork, financial statement preparation, audit file completion, budgets, deadlines, and quality reviews. Supervises and mentors junior staff, provides technical guidance, develops client relationships, identifies business opportunities, and supports proposals and special assignments. Requires ACA or ACCA qualification, strong UK accounting standards knowledge, substantive and controls-based audit experience, excellent communication, and flexibility to travel across the South Coast.

Manage a portfolio of VAT advisory clients and deliver complex, commercially focused solutions across multiple sectors. Responsibilities include advising on international VAT, property transactions, partial exemption, VAT registrations, HMRC enquiries, disputes and appeals. The role involves managing projects, budgets, billing and client relationships; researching legislation and HMRC guidance; identifying risks and planning opportunities; supporting business development; reviewing VAT returns; and mentoring junior team members.

Lead and grow the Employment Law practice, advising employers, executives, and owner-managed businesses on contentious and non-contentious matters. Manage complex disputes, investigations, restructurings, TUPE, transactions, senior exits, and employment documentation. Oversee client relationships, business development, profitability, risk management, quality assurance, and lawyer development. Drive collaboration across advisory teams and implement legal technology and AI-enabled service improvements.

Deliver hands-on penetration tests across web applications, APIs, and network infrastructure, plus Cyber Essentials Plus and wider technical security reviews. Identify and validate vulnerabilities, explain business risk, and provide remediation. Produce reports, present findings, manage engagement scope, and contribute to advisory work, business development, and continuous improvement of methodologies and tooling.

Lead audits from planning through completion for owner-managed businesses, SMEs, not-for-profits, and corporate clients. Prepare and review financial statements under UK accounting frameworks, supervise audit teams, review junior work, manage budgets and deadlines, and draft management recommendations. The role also involves client relationship management, business development, mentoring, networking, and occasional travel to other offices and client sites.

Manage end-to-end payroll for complex hospitality-sector client portfolios across weekly, fortnightly, and monthly cycles. Responsibilities include variable pay, tronc, NMW compliance, statutory payments, RTI filings, pension auto-enrolment, holiday pay advice, year-end processing, reconciliations, and payment files. The role requires independent client portfolio management, accurate handling of high-volume starters and leavers, and coordination of multi-site, multi-brand payrolls.

Advise clients on corporate and business law including company law, group reorganisations, capital investments, joint ventures, shareholders' agreements, M&A and Employee Ownership Trusts. Work collaboratively with advisory, tax and accountancy teams to deliver joined-up, high-quality legal advice on complex transactions.

Manage complex UK and international client payrolls, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant processing. Handle HMRC submissions, statutory filings, year-end processes, pensions, benefits, share schemes, and expatriate payrolls. Advise clients on technical payroll matters, support implementations and system enhancements, maintain client relationships, prepare billing information, mentor junior colleagues, and contribute to process improvement.

Manage a portfolio of valuation engagements from inception to completion, delivering technical valuation analyses and clear reports. Build client relationships, lead junior staff, ensure risk and client take-on compliance, contribute to business development, thought leadership, and training within the Valuation Services team.