Job Description

We have a fantastic role in our Tax team for an individual with significant compliance and advisory experience to manage and develop a corporate tax team and well established portfolio and larger corporate clients providing a mix of compliance and advisory services.

What you’ll be doing?

In particular we are seeking an individual who has experience in:

• Large and complex corporate tax compliance
• Corporate tax enquiries
• Undertaking tax due diligence reviews and preparing key findings reports
• International corporate tax issues and structuring
• Corporate reconstructions / demergers etc
• General business tax advisory

You will be using this experience:

• Reporting to the Tax Partners, being responsible for a portfolio of general corporate tax clients
• Liaising closely with the Accounts/Audit Directors/Partners to ensure a comprehensive service to clients
• Assisting with building the tax practice by actively promoting the firm and its services to clients and targets
• Supervising the local corporate tax team
• Preparing complex returns and reviewing returns prepared by other members of the corporate tax team,
• Corresponding and dealing with client enquires in relation to their tax issues and liabilities, ensuring any unresolved issues are referred to the appropriate Partner, including the initial handling/ identification of both tax planning and tax investigation issues
• Maintaining direct contact with clients in the delivery of excellent client service
• Undertaking client tax work by careful reference to and consistent with the firm’s procedures, to ensure all assignments are completed to a consistently high standard
• Documenting work in a clear and concise manner, ensuring all working papers are legible, easy to follow and well presented
• Remaining technically up-to-date with all relevant tax matters and able to accurately interpret and apply current tax legislation
• Ensuring that work is delivered on time and / or to budget
• Managing of work-in-progress on all assignments ensuring regular and timely billing and assisting with the prompt collection of debtors
• Reviewing tax work and smaller assignments undertaken by general practice staff, providing coaching (where necessary) and addressing outstanding issues
• Being involved in internal and external presentations
• Ensuring all outgoing work is appropriately reviewed and authorized in accordance with the firm’s Tax Manual.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• CTA and / or ACA/ACCA qualified
• In due course support will be considered for the Advance Diploma of International Taxation if desired and appropriate for the role
• Experience of working within practice, with the competence to deal with managing a portfolio of clients and assignments, management and coaching of staff and trainees
• Excellent interpersonal skills – able to deal with people at all levels
• Self-motivated and able to show initiative
• Accurate and able to work well under pressure
• Good problem-solving skills