This Big 4's Tax practice are recruiting in their Birmingham office. A constantly changing and increasingly high-profile field, Tax can offer a surprisingly broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.
Working in the Corporate Tax department at this firm will give you the opportunity to develop relationships with clients as you help manage the amount of corporation tax they need to pay. This involves working with clients to produce complex tax computations and returns for HM Revenue & Customs, giving advice on corporate planning and restructuring projects and finding ways to reduce their effective rate of tax.
Roles and Responsibilities
For each client, working as a member of the client service team to provide corporate tax compliance and advisory services including:
- Being the principal contact with smaller clients on day to day tax matters and working with Managers and more senior members of the team on larger clients
- Liaising with the client service team and with colleagues in other tax disciplines as well as the audit and accounting discipline to provide a co-ordinated service to the client
- Working with specialists to deliver expertise to the market Discussing new tax ideas and developments with clients
- Planning compliance work and managing the process through to submission of tax computations with supervision from Managers
- Supervising the work of junior members of staff / offshore partners, including the preparation of tax computations
- Supervising the work of junior members of staff including tax payment advice plus correspondence with HM Revenue & Customs Reviewing corporation tax computations
- Advising the client on the computational treatment of contentious issues Implementing the firm's advice in submitting returns and negotiating with HM Revenue & Customs Co-ordinating tax payments, loss relief, capital allowances, group relief and other claims
- Carrying out tax audits and advising the audit team of potential tax exposures Involvement on tax advisory planning work on client portfolio and ad-hoc projects
- Keeping internal control records up to date and ensuring compliance with quality control procedures
- Dealing with client billing
- Coaching of junior members of staff
- Participating with Managers and more senior members of the team in business development activities
Qualifications and Skills
- Newly qualified (ACA, CA, CTA, ACCA) or equivalent
People have always been our business. We know that our success depends in no small way on your expertise, talent and skill. We have built a reputation for working with people to invest heavily in their training and career development. If you can take charge of your career, meet the targets and broaden your expertise, we will provide all the support and the opportunities to realise your full potential.
Experience and Background
- Sound knowledge of UK corporate taxation and / or sound knowledge of accountancy principles, in particular accounting for tax (including deferred taxation and accounts presentation)
- Preferably an awareness of broad international tax issues
- Ability to keep up to date technically
- Social confidence and communications skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Attention to detail, practical approach to problems, client focused and commercial awareness
- Motivated and committed to continuously developing technical, commercial and client relationship skills
- Effective time management, able to remain calm when under pressure and to meet deadlines
We request applications to be submitted in a word format only.
Pure Recruitment Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. Pure Recruitment Group Limited aims to promote diversity and equal opportunity through its work - we monitor and evaluate our performance on a regular basis.
Please note our advertisements use PQE levels purely as a guide to the minimum level of experience that we anticipate will be needed to fulfil the position. However, we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role and they will be considered on an equal basis.
Pure Taxation was established in 1999 as part of the Pure Recruitment Group. Rather than imitate existing providers of tax recruitment consultancy, we sought to create a new methodology based on quality, relationships and integrity. Since then, Pure Taxation has become market leader in the UK because of our approach to recruitment and the excellence of our experienced consultants, making us a profitable business every year since inception.
Our current team comprises of 16 specialist consultants in London and Hong Kong focusing on permanent tax recruitment in the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions, three specialists in interim tax recruitment and four dedicated support and research staff, making us the largest dedicated tax recruiter in the UK.
