Corporate Tax - Compliance - Senior Associate - PwC Birmingham

A career in our Tax Compliance Services practice, within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their tax obligations across unique but ever changing tax specialties. You'll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing indirect taxes, dispute resolution, and global enterprise tax solutions.

Our team helps our clients with compliance across all taxes, statutory accounting and complex tax reporting. You'll focus on bookkeeping and monthly reporting, drafting, auditing and filing of local statutory financial statements, and transaction processing.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above
Train and lead staff
Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

In response to market demands and client needs, the Tax practice is in the process of transforming its Tax Compliance proposition and Tax Compliance delivery model. Central to our plans for the future within each of our three service streams (Corporate, Personal and Global Mobility compliance) is the Reviewer role.

Successful candidates will be given the opportunity to work on high profile client assignments alongside Tax Compliance and other Tax staff across the wider practice as we redefine our approach to delivering our services

About the role

Working alongside other members of our compliance team and with relationship managers, you will manage a range of activities that together will result in high quality service for our clients, including:

Review and update client details relating to the set-up of the engagement to ensure smooth set-up
Review tax return/tax accounting for technical accuracy, readiness for submission to the client and risk, providing technical guidance and feedback to individual preparers. this should include compare with PY, check PBT for CT and TA, compare for clear differences with current tax in accounts, comparison with tax payments made
Review executive summary relating to the return/tax accounting assignment and produced by the preparer
Deal with client queries in relation to data requests during Data Exchange by exception /as escalated
Compile and review missing information request and send to client
Review the missing information request before sending to the client
Review missing information received from client and taxpayer for completeness and update the return
Save the missing information to the data repository
Update status of the tax return/tax accounting in the relevant systems
Return missing information request,tax return/tax accounting and executive summary to the preparer for any necessary re-work
Trigger signatory review for return by Relationship Team from within compliance system as scoped.
Contact client if they are non-consented'
Package tax return/tax accounting and sign it off ready for sending to client for approval
Re-work tax return/tax accounting based on client feedback and as per scope of work and re-package as required for re-submission to client
Coaching and developing other staff
Sharing technical and practical knowledge through the team
Interpreting and applying tax legislation in respect of tax return/tax accounting disclosure
Awareness of budget so that problems can be flagged to CPL
Provide quarterly payment advice as per agreed scope
Consideration of GAAR and Tax Code of Conduct including Professional Services in Relation to Taxation.
Deal with incoming HMRC correspondence as required, reverting to Relationship teams for any necessary actions.

Essential skills and experience

The successful candidate will possess initiative and enthusiasm and will show the ability to work in and contribute to the team and will possess the personal skills needed to form successful relationships. The successful candidate will have the majority of the following skills and experience:Be ACA or CTA qualified
Strong UK corporate or personal tax skills
UK GAAP and IFRS tax accounting experience

This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to join a growing business that offers exposure to an unrivalled range of clients and specialist tax areas. We offer a competitive salary and a wide range of flexible benefits
Has a highly developed client service ethos and can adopt a flexible approach to meeting client needs
Be able to establish, build and maintain a good working relationship with key decision makers, including partners and senior client personnel
Have the ability to help manage and build new business through referrals, networking and spotting client opportunities
Be an effective delegator, strong at coaching junior staff

Who we’re looking for

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Tax
We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.

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The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
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Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
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