Our client is a very well established accountancy firm that are looking to recruit a Tax Manager to join their team on a permanent basis.
- Location: Darlington
- Salary: Negotiable
The Role
- Providing tax advice to a portfolio of predominantly owner-managed businesses.
- Identifying tax planning opportunities to raise with clients.
- Ensuring that all compliance is completed in good time and deadlines are met.
- Management and development of the tax trainees.
- To manage your own client portfolio.
- To review tax returns prepared by junior team members.
- To prepare more complex tax computations.
- Preparation and review of tax accounting disclosures in company accounts.
- Tax audit review work.
- Assisting in preparing P11Ds.
- To provide support on planning projects and research technical issues on advisory work such as asset/business sales, succession planning and tax residency issues.
- To start dealing with more complex client queries (internal and external) and provide tax planning advice.
- To attend client meetings.
- Planning and executing the longer-term strategy of the department along with the departmental partner and directors.
- Contribute to winning new client work.
The Person
- CTA qualified with a background of working in tax.
- Competent in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word and Excel.
- High level of numeracy.
- Methodical approach to work.
- An aptitude for detailed work.
- Demonstrates clear written and verbal communication skills with both staff and clients.
- Demonstrate the ability to make decisions, solve problems and take appropriate action.
- An understanding of the link between effective performance management and business results.
- Demonstrates a clear knowledge and understanding of performance standards, quality control procedures and office procedures.
- Ability to deal confidently and positively with poor and underperformance issues.
- Ability to adapt leadership style for different team members.
- Ability to prioritise workload in order to achieve client deadlines, as well as other day to day work.
- To demonstrate good timekeeping skills as well as displaying a professional attitude in all aspects of their work.
- To actively participate in team meetings making a wide range of suggestions.