Corporate Tax Assistant Manager (Banking)

Simpson Booth are recruiting a Corporate Tax Assistant Manager for a leading professional Services Firm based in Glasgow. This role will be working within the Banking sector and past Banking experience is essential.

This role can be either on a full or part time basis with flexible working arrangements also considered. Flexible working can be annualised hours, late or early starts and finishes and shorter working days.

Roles and responsibilities

- 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 within agreed deadlines.
- Work with the local office teams nationally and/or the client directly 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 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, preparing technical analysis and involving specialists as appropriate to prepare or review analysis.
- Deliver a 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 the local office team and/or client, as requested, including for example providing assistance in the drafting of responses to HMRC correspondence and preparing tax accounting disclosures.
- Develop and maintain relationships and act as primary liaison with local office teams and the offshore partners.
- Work with client administrators to ensure client administration and risk procedures are completed appropriately.
- Identify opportunities to identify additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists.

Qualifications and skills

ATT / CTA / ACA.

Experience and Background

- Experience of review of corporate tax computations and returns for banking and asset finance companies.
- Ability to identify and resolve technical issues, or escalate as appropriate.
- Experience of specific technical areas encountered in the banking sector including: foreign branch bank capital attribution adjustments, bank loss offset rules, bank surcharge tax and the tax treatment of finance lessors.
-Experience of general 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 team work and organisational skills, including monitoring timetables and budgets.
- Proficient user of Alphatax (or similar tax software).