- As a senior member of the team, take responsibility for providing a quality client service to a portfolio of personal tax clients including high net worth individuals, directors, sole traders and partnerships.
- Preparation of both routine and complex personal tax returns including capital gains tax computations, share scheme disclosures and rental income accounts for individuals, trusts and non resident companies.
- Reviewing Sole Trader and Partnership tax computations and capital allowance claims
- Communicating directly with clients on all aspects of their personal tax affairs and be able to explain their tax position to them without the use of technical language as required
- Calculate and advise on pension planning
- Contribute to advising non UK residents, non UK domiciles and be aware of ATED compliance
- Handle correspondence with HMRC, including notices of enquiry
- Resolve notice of coding errors and changes on behalf of clients directly with HMRC Complete / review P11Ds and P11D(b) and handle STBV reporting Be able to deal with ad-hoc technical queries from other teams e.g. payroll / accounts Identify areas of risk and highlight these matters to the manager and relationship partner
- Carry out AML compliance in accordance with the firm’s policy Keep up to date with relevant technical matters
- Manage work in progress and billing of work To market and promote the services of the department and the practice to new and existing clients
Requirements:
- Strong interpersonal skills are a must. Experience of CCH Central personal tax, corporation tax and document management would be advantageous.
- A decent working knowledge of MS Office suite (Word, Excel,m Outlook) necessary.
- Ability to use Excel functions and make pivot tables desirable.
- An understanding of how to navigate proprietary accounting software packages, such as Sage, QB and Xero would be useful.
- Association of Tax Technicians
- Maths and English GCSE Pass A or above & good A level passes
- 5 years + Personal tax experience within a UK multi-partner practice.