Private Client Tax Senior, Birmingham

Role Profile

Purpose of role:

To ensure that the annual tax compliance work is completed and planning opportunities are identified and delivered for a portfolio of clients.

Key responsibilities:

Client compliance work

* Delivering high quality service to clients
* Responsible for a portfolio of clients which may including sole traders, partners, HNWIs, non UK domiciliaries, partnerships, non-residents and trusts
* Ensuring administration of the portfolio is completed including all aspects of compliance, accounts, tax returns and tax computations
* Ensuring all beneficial elections and claims are made

Client planning work

* Identifying possible planning possibilities
* Preparing reports for clients
* Attendance at client meetings
* Answering client ad-hoc questions and enquiries in respect of their personal tax affairs

Yearly routine checks and compliance

* Ensuring procedures on annual tax cycle are complied with
* Collating and maintaining client information
* Client billing and time analysis

Training and personal development

* In house technical and soft skills training as appropriate. (Likely to be CTA qualified)

Supervising trainees

* Overseeing trainees and reviewing work
* Assisting other group members in professional work
* Providing feedback for trainees appraisals

Key Competencies:

* Planning and Organising: must be able to plan workload in order to prioritise work to meet conflicting deadlines and cope with pressure.
* Written and verbal communication: good written communication skills are necessary to draft correspondence with clients and HMRC to explain technical issues in an easily understandable manner. Must have good inter-personal skills to be able to liaise with clients and other staff members.
* Customer Focus: meeting deadlines and responding to client needs.
* Team work: provide link in chain to supervise staff members below and support managers and partners above.
* Technical Expertise: maintain technical knowledge obtained from exam qualifications

Candidate Profile

Education/Qualifications:

* Professionally Qualified (CTA)

Key Experience/Skills:

* Significant experience gained within a professional services firm.
* Good knowledge of private tax compliance and ideally some exposure to planning/advisory work.
* Technical knowledge to include CGT, IHT, business tax aspects. Non-resident, non-domicile and partnership experience will be useful.
* Ability to write letters explaining complicated planning issues as well as verbal communication skills.
* Computer literate using a range of applications/programmes ideally including Digita software.
* Ability to work independently and also be a team player.
* Confidence to deal with managers, partners and clients