From Tax Graduate to Director: a deep dive into my (Jack Bonehill’s) tax career to date. Listen for the overview and insight
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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
Resources
Episodes mentioned:
VERY useful books for your tax career: