This role will be working within the group tax team of a top 30 accounting firm which involves looking after personal tax compliance for Partners (approx 200 individuals). This role also involves managing a team (x2 Assistants), while ensuring tax returns are completed within tax cycle, completing first reviews within the LLP side. Other responsibilities will involve working on tax reserves, partners drawdowns, payments and statements.
Job description:
- Assist in managing the partner tax compliance cycle, including but not limited to:
- Assisting in managing the team to ensure completion of all tax returns for engaged clients in a tax cycle
- First review of tax returns
- Drafting advice around tax implications of partner matters including share unit awards and pension contributions
- Drafting communications to partners around changes in process
- Assist in managing tax aspects of the partner pay process, preparation of partner end of year statements and payments of partners' tax to HMRC.
- Assist with:
- Implementing Basis Period Reform and the resulting necessary process changes
- Implementing, in due course, MTD
- Liaising, as required, with National Tax and other areas of the business
- Monitoring and managing execution of other reporting requirements, e.g. the Trust Registration Service, claims and elections
- Drafting IHT planning and other ad hoc tax advice requested by partners
- Assist with Group employment tax matters including:
- Group Tax's overview of the P11D and PAYE settlement processes (which are run within the wider Group Finance team) including initial review of the returns and assistance with technical queries from the return preparers the tax implications and reporting requirements around short term business visitors and internationally mobile employees
Qualifications
- Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CA/Equivalent) and/or Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) / Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA)
- Experience gained within the profession and/or financial services, including experience of managing own and others workloads
- Experience of people managing/ leading a team.
- Solid base of tax technical knowledge plus willingness and aptitude to research and draft advice in new areas
- Good team player and strong sense of client service
- Ability to plan tasks and coordinate, with support, a small team to meet multiple, sometimes competing and changing, deadlines
For more information, please contact Mo Hanslod at Goodman Masson.
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