Job Description

The key responsibilities for this Tax Senior position at a leading accountancy firm based in Newport are: •    Work closely with key executives on creating more Tax advisory opportunities through existing clients. •    To assist the client relationship mangers/partners in tax technical areas to deliver tax advisory such as IHT planning, capital gains tax planning and exit planning to clients of the firm. •    Reviewing technically complicated tax compliance work including corporation tax, personal tax, partnership tax and IHT returns. •    To assist in procedural improvements to the tax compliance process (corporate and personal) and cascade down tax developments to the compliance team. •    To work closely with key colleagues and leaders across the business, and to provide a competitive and ambitious entrepreneurial approach to your work.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

In order for candidates to be successful when applying for this Tax Senior role at a leading accountancy firm in Newport, you must be: • At least 3 years of practice experience. • Considerable and demonstrable experience of working within the partnership tax and/or private client tax field. • Demonstrable experience of building and growing tax a advisory function with profitable returns. • Highly tax technical, with the ability to research answers to tax technical questions and able to analyse and interpret tax legislation. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to easily present and convey complex issues to wide audiences. • Ambitious and with an entrepreneurial spirit which will capitalise on the firms open style to new work streams and methods. • Tax compliance - ideally personal, partnership, trust and corporate but at least personal and partnership is essential. • Trust tax including trust tax returns, IHT estate calculations, IHT lifetime tax, IHT planning and succession planning. • Capital gains tax including knowledge of all capital gains tax reliefs such as Entrepreneurs relief, roll over relief and gift relief. • A working knowledge of tax residency rules (but not the taxation of 'non-dom's') - A working knowledge of the more typical VAT issues, such as the applicable rates, partial exemption methodology and property transactions.