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 Manager to join a successful tax team within one of the Big 4 Accountancy Practices.
The Corporate Tax team (based in TL Managed Services) is an integral part of the firm’s overall offering to clients. As such, you will be working with clients of all sizes (from mid-market to FTSE listed groups) and across a diverse range of sectors.
This role will involve working closely with tax professionals based in all of the company’s UK offices, along with our offshore partners (who manage processing aspects), to deliver a seamless service to our clients.
Both full and part time working will be considered for this role as well as flexible working arrangements, including early or later starts, shorter working days etc.
How will you fit?
In order to take on this role, you will:
- Be ATT/CTA/ACA qualified (or equivalent) or qualified by experience
- Be able to demonstrate exceptional tax compliance skills, the ability to work to tight deadlines and produce a first class product ready for issue to clients.
- Have experience of manager level review of corporate tax computations and returns, including client liaison through the compliance process
- Be able to identify and resolve technical issues or escalate as appropriate
- Have experience of specific technical areas including: complex capital versus revenue treatment; pension scheme and share scheme adjustments; group relief; basic transfer pricing; UK GAAP tac accounting for groups
- Have an awareness of technical areas including: controlled foreign companies and worldwide debt calculations
- Have strong interpersonal skills with experience of managing and/or coaching junior staff, in addition to strong oral and written communication skills
- Be able to work as part of a team with excellent management and organizational skills, including monitoring timetables and budgets
- Be a proficient user of Alphatax (or similar software)
You’ll add value to the team by:
- Maintaining a portfolio of clients and taking responsibility for ensuring their tax computations are prepared to a high standard, on a timely basis and finalised and submitted to HMRC within agreed deadlines.
- Overseeing the work of assistant managers, providing coaching and technical guidance as part of the overall review process.
- Working with the local office teams nationally and/or the client directly to understand the requirements at the start of each compliance cycle and ensure that these are reflected in the final computation and return.
- Potentially visiting client/ local offices when appropriate.
- On more complex clients, acting as the main point of liaison with the client to obtain additional information if required, feeding back to the tax computation preparers to enable them to provide an updated draft computation for subsequent review.
- Identifying and resolving technical issues, preparing technical analysis and involving specialists as appropriate to prepare or review analysis.
- Carrying out a full manager review of computations and other deliverables prior to sending to clients and HMRC.
- Providing advice and support to the local office team and/or client, as requested, including for example providing assistance in the drafting of responses to HMRC correspondence and preparing tax accounting disclosures.
- Developing and maintaining relationships and liaising with local office teams and the offshore partners.
- Working with client administrators to ensure client administration and risk procedures are completed appropriately, liaising with local office teams as needed.
- Identifying opportunities to identify additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists.
- Following company best practice and policy.
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.