Why this role?
Are you ready to join a multinational Professional Services network and one of the most well-established accounting practices? Some of the benefits of joining the Tax team include:
- Opportunities to learn for a lifetime and be effectively supported in terms of mentorship, training and personal development
- Diversity is celebrated – different specialisms and disciplines often in one team
- Chance to work on exciting and stimulating projects with a diverse range of clients of different sizes and from different sectors
- Hybrid & flexible working encouraged to support colleagues
- Opportunities to be involved in various Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and to support charitable causes
- Development opportunities such as secondments and a ‘people manager’ programme to develop your career and find new opportunities
What’s the Opportunity?
Iconic Resourcing presents a fantastic opportunity for a Tax Assistant Manager (Private Equity & Alternative Funds) to join a successful tax team within one of the Big 4 Accountancy Practices.
Please note that other locations will be considered for this role.
The firm’s financial services tax team is a fast-growing division of the tax practice and as such are now looking for excellent candidates seeking a dynamic and challenging working environment within a strong supportive leadership team.
This role is within the Core Asset Management tax team, which has a diverse client and target base spanning the Financial Services sector (including private equity funds, alternative investors and wealth and hedge asset managers).
You will have a particular interest in the PE Funds and alternatives market, although there will be other opportunities to work across traditional asset management tax compliance and advisory, operational taxes and EU Funds. You will also be a self-starter with a good level of core corporate tax or income tax technical knowledge and a confident outward facing skillset willing to invest time and effort in the marketplace.
The team is diverse and collaborative, with individuals based across London, Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh. Hybrid and flexible working are embraced wherever possible.
How will you fit?
In order to take on this role, you will:
- Be qualified CTA or ACA/CA or equivalent.
- Have strong knowledge of UK corporate tax or income tax and an awareness of other tax and accounting areas.
- Previous experience within the financial services sector would be an advantage but is not a requirement.
- Have strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.
- Have a high level analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.
- Be able to work as part of a multifunctional team.
- Have strong task and team management skills.
- Be able to build client relationships.
- Have good computational and excel skills.
- Have good technology skills - experience of Alphatax would be advantageous but not essential
You’ll add value to the team by:
- Supporting the management of client relationships and becoming the focal tax point of contact
- Understanding the client's business and working with the team to identify areas for the provision of tax and other services.
- Developing and advising on cutting edge client propositions.
- Managing the tax compliance process for a portfolio of clients (working together with our teams to prepare partnership tax returns, corporation tax returns and investor reports) and undertaking tax accounting work to assist clients with their statutory reporting process.
- Driving the tax advice on a wide range of projects.
- Ensuring all risk procedures are adhered to.
So what next?
We value your experience as a candidate and understand that considering a new role can be daunting, therefore we are offering first stage informal and confidential chats where you can find out more about the role and your suitability.
To find out more, please contact Caitlin Farquharson.
Iconic Resourcing is an equal opportunities employer, and all applications will be treated as such. We act as both an employment business and an employment agency.