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Levitate Recruitment is working with a Big 4 firm in Manchester that is keen to strengthen its team by recruiting a Corporate Tax Assistant Manager. Working within the firm’s Tax Centre of Excellence you will service a wide range of clients from mid-market to FTSE-listed groups across a wide range of sectors.

The firm can offer flexible hours both part-time or full time including flexible working hours with earlier or later starts.

Role: 

• 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.
• Work closely with other UK offices and clients to understand the requirements at the start of each compliance cycle and provide instructions to the tax computation preparers.
• Potential visits to clients/ local offices when appropriate.
• Review the draft tax computation produced to ensure the correct treatment of items and determine whether further information is required.
• Liaise with the client to obtain additional information if required, feeding back to the tax computation preparers to enable them to provide an updated draft computation for subsequent review.
• 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.
• Provide advice and support to clients and other team members.
• Work with client administrators to ensure client administration and risk procedures are completed appropriately, liaising with local office teams as needed.
• Identify opportunities to identify additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists.

Requirements:

• The firm is open to individuals that are qualified by experience as well as ATT / CTA / ACA or equivalent qualifications.
• Experience of 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).

This is just one of a number of opportunities we are recruiting for across the UK and Overseas. Levitate Recruitment are the leading Accountancy Practice and Insolvency Recruitment Specialist.

If you are interested in having a confidential conversation about your career options regarding live or future opportunities, contact Scott Lowes at the Levitate Offices.