Corporate Tax Assistant Manager
Levitate Recruitment
- Manchester
- £38,000-42,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Maintain a portfolio of clients and take 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.
- Work closely with the internal and client teams across the UK to understand the requirements at the start of each compliance cycle and provide instructions to the tax computation preparers.
- Visit other company offices and client premises when required.
- Review draft tax computations
- Work closely with clients to obtain additional information if required
- Identify and resolve technical issues, prepare technical analysis and involve specialists as appropriate to prepare or review analysis.
- Deliver high quality, technically accurate final draft tax computation, ready for final review by a manager/senior manager and sending to the client.
- Develop and maintain relationships and act as primary liaison to local office teams and offshore partners.
- Work with client administrators to ensure client administration and risk procedures are completed appropriately.
- Candidates should have suitable experience in a similar role and whilst ATT / CTA / ACA is of preference, our client will also remain open to those people qualified by experience.
- Experienced in reviewing corporate tax computations and returns.
- Ability to identify and resolve technical issues, or escalate as appropriate.
- Experience of specific technical areas including complex capital versus revenue treatment; pension scheme and share scheme adjustments; group relief; basic transfer pricing; UK GAAP tax accounting for single entities and simple groups.
- Awareness (experience preferred) of technical areas including controlled foreign companies and worldwide debt calculations.
- Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent teamwork and organisational skills, including monitoring timetables and budgets
- Proficient user of Alphatax (or similar tax software).