Jobs at Moore Kingston Smith

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.

Provides administrative and client support for financial planners, including preparing meeting documentation, processing pension and investment applications, maintaining client records, managing policy servicing, coordinating transfers, and supporting FCA compliance reviews. The role also handles provider communications, client enquiries, office administration, and process improvement while developing expertise in wealth management products and financial planning procedures.

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.

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.

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.

Entry-level audit apprentice supporting audit planning, testing, financial statement preparation, tax computations, client communication, working papers, and accounting software updates. The role includes paid study leave and training toward the AAT Level 4 Diploma, with potential progression to the ACA pathway. Candidates need strong motivation for audit, reliability, professionalism, ethical standards, relationship-building skills, and eligibility to work in the UK for at least two years.

Two-year Level 4 AAT audit apprenticeship supporting nonprofit-sector audits. Responsibilities include audit planning, financial testing, financial statement preparation, tax computations, working-paper maintenance, client communication, and audit close-out activities. The role combines paid study, structured training, client-facing experience, and progression opportunities toward the ACA qualification.

Lead cybersecurity architecture and engineering across identity, cloud, data, endpoints, applications, networks, and third-party services. Design and validate Zero Trust controls, conduct architecture reviews and threat modeling, oversee detection and incident response, improve vulnerability management, and secure AI technologies including Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents. Automate security processes, support compliance obligations, advise senior stakeholders, and coach technology teams in secure engineering practices.

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.

Provide client-facing administration for financial planning advisers: prepare meeting packs, process new business, maintain records, implement recommendations, handle enquiries, support compliance with FCA/TCF standards, and contribute to process improvement and office administration.

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.

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.

Provide secretarial and administrative support to Partners, Directors and the Heathrow team: manage diaries, meetings, documents, client onboarding/admin, financial processing, reception cover, travel and office coordination to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.

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.

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.

Client‑facing senior role providing employment tax advice and complex compliance across PAYE, NIC, benefits, share schemes, expatriate taxation and HMRC enquiries. Work with payroll, HR, immigration and global mobility teams, lead and mentor junior staff, support payroll bureau, review expatriate returns and payroll computations, prepare P11Ds and PSA reporting, and help develop business and manage client relationships.