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The Role
As a Corporate Tax Assistant Manager, you will oversee the preparation and review of corporate tax returns, managing junior staff and ensuring compliance with UK tax regulations. You will provide technical support on complex tax issues, assist with tax planning, and maintain client relationships. Your role ensures high-quality service delivery and supports team development and client satisfaction.
Core Skills
Client Focus
* Takes full responsibility for own clients and resource planning in relation to their client portfolio. Ensure assignments are diarised and delivered in line with client deadlines and expectations
* Introduction to fee conversations with clients, with the support of senior management
* Ensure up to date engagement terms are in place for all active client services, and revise accordingly for any changes in scope or service lines as and when changes arise
* Develops a clear understanding of clients’ business, challenges and risks sufficiently to brief more junior colleagues
* Identify variations to initial engagement scope at an early stage of an assignment and propose approach and ad-hoc fees for any additional work for director/partner approval, so that full value can be recognised
* Demonstrates opportunities to develop value added services for the client
* Provides feedback to clients on progress and outcomes of jobs
* Holds clients to account on the quality and timeliness of agreed deliverables.
Technical Excellence
* Has a sound knowledge of technical and professional standards, and can draw on this to enlighten colleagues and clients in specific and relevant areas
* Confident in training others in technical knowledge
* Be able to develop bid and pricing proposals for noncomplex work.
Commitment
* Undertakes line management responsibilities including performance reviews of appropriate junior colleagues
* Supporting junior colleagues in developing action plans based on feedback received.
Attention to Detail
* Performs review of key areas of the assignment ensuring working papers and conclusions reached are presented well and justified
* Takes pride in own work and takes personal responsibility for ensuring that the final product is accurate or high quality, and presented well.
Decision Making
* Confident in taking decisions within agreed remit
* Deals with instances of colleagues failing to adopt core values and respect by either addressing or escalating to senior team members when aware
* Suggests solutions to problems rather than waiting for suggestions from senior colleagues
* Supporting managers in delegated aspects of team management such as sickness reporting and holiday approvals. Participate in the interview and selection process for new junior hires.
* Communicates effectively when scope or timescales need to change
* Review work in progress (WIP) under own control and raise draft fees for approval considering stage of completion and work undertaken
* Delivers work within agreed scope and timescales, meeting deadlines efficiently achieving desired recovery rates.
Living Our Values
* New to Azets: Shows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours
* Existing Colleague: Consistently ‘lives our values’ - demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our company values
* OR: Is a role model for our company values, is seen as an ‘Ambassador' who leads by example.
Technical Skills
* Review Corporation Tax returns prepared by Seniors
* Manages a small portfolio of clients with more complex needs and provides rounded support for client base through the whole compliance cycle
* Attending pre year end and completion meetings for clients, as applicable
* Provide technical training to the trainees, relevant to their level of ability
* Identifying tax planning opportunities for existing clients
* Keep abreast of changes to tax legislation, consider how changes might affect clients and acts pro-actively to contact clients providing advice where necessary
* Review final tax packs / transmittal letters for less complex clients, manage more senior review and approve for issue to client
* Preparation of technical advice on complex tax matters, for review by Managers or the senior team
* Ensuring review time of tax advisory projects arranged effectively with Directors / Partners.
Qualifications
* Holds a accountancy and/or tax qualification or qualified by experience (e.g. ATT/CTA/ACA/ACCA/CA).
* It is expected that the above core and technical skills will have been developed through study alongside work experience in an accountancy practice.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Accounting/Auditing
* Industries
Accounting
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