Corporate Tax – Accountancy Practice – Hertfordshire
About the Company:
Our Client are accountants and business advisers comprising of ten member firms, with 38 offices and over 2,000 people, all sharing common values and goals. Each firm has a strong local presence, providing accounting and advisory services to businesses across the UK and globally from small businesses to mid-sized listed companies, the not for profit sector and private clients.
About the Opportunity:
Working as part of the corporate client team you will play a significant part in looking after compliance matters and ad hoc advice for over 200 corporate clients, their owners and their taxation needs. The role will also involve advice and input on personal tax issues such as cash extraction and capital gains tax. The role can accommodate a Personal Tax portfolio for candidates interested in keeping a mixed role.
You will work closely with partners, existing tax teams, the audit and accountancy corporate client team, and other team members across the practice. Your client portfolio will offer involvement with a wide range of companies and directors for whom you’ll provide support on helping them to meet corporate tax compliance deadlines, managing our compliance service and providing assistance and support on a wide range of tax advisory matters for business owners.
You will be involved in researching a wide variety of corporate tax matters for predominantly entrepreneurial owner managed business (OMB) clients. Liaising with the accounts team, you will provide guidance and support to the team and to the client in preparing tax computations as part of the accounts preparation process.
The role involves detailed reviews of corporate tax computations on larger and more complex clients, as well as making claims for tax relief on more technical matters such as R&D and capital allowances.
About the Responsibilities:
Joining as Corporate Tax Manager you will be reporting into the Partners and responsible for advising clients and reviewing work on a varied range of services including:
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Capital allowances
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Research and development claims
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Patent Box
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Group tax planning
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ATED compliance
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Loss reliefs
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Non Resident Corporate Landlords
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Loan Relationships
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Overdrawn Directors Loan accounts
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Corporate Gains regime
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Re-organisations and mergers
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Management Buy Outs
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Sales of companies, Due Diligence and Tax Warranties and Indemnities
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Capital Gains tax – particularly BADR
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VAT
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Tax clearance procedures
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EIS
About the Applicant:
As the successful applicant, you will:
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Have experience working in practice on a wide range of corporate tax issues
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Be ACA/ACCA qualified/ Part Qualified
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Tax qualifications (CTA or ATT) desirable. Study Support will be considered for the right candidate.
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Excellent client service standards and work management skills
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Good verbal and written communication skills essential
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Good working knowledge of Alphatax useful
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Good team working skills
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Ability to explain tax issues clearly and confidently in a non-technical manner
About the Benefits:
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Pension with optional salary exchange scheme
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Annual leave starting at 25 days (plus Statutory Bank Holidays), increasing with length of service
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Generous recruitment referral scheme
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Social committee organising numerous subsidised events
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Hybrid working for most roles