Employment Tax Manager, Grant Thornton, Ipswich

The Employment Tax Manager plays a pivotal role within the Tax department within Grant Thornton UK LLP. The successful candidate will cover the Eastern Seaboard. This will cover primarily the Cambridge, Norwich and Ipswich offices as part of the Grant Thornton Central Region.

As part of the award winning National Employer Solutions Team, you will be developing opportunities within the existing broad ranging and dynamic client base and to identify and develop new employment tax related opportunities in the above market place.

The Manager must demonstrate depth of technical knowledge of UK tax and apply this knowledge to develop solutions to complex technical issues.

Main Responsibilities

• You will demonstrate strong technical employment taxes knowledge and experience, ideally including payroll consulting (advisory and compliance) and/or share schemes
• Experience of work on designing and implementing salary sacrifice schemes would be preferable
• Building client relationships and being the main point of contact to enable client issues to be identified and appropriate solutions to be provided
• Leading relevant negotiations/interactions with relevant external bodies such as HMRC

Education and Qualifications

• ATT or CTA qualification or equivalent would be highly desirable
• Technical employment taxes knowledge
• Ability to coach and develop junior members of the team

Additional Information

Dynamic organisations know they need to apply both reason and instinct to decision-making. At Grant Thornton UK LLP, this is how we advise our clients every day. We combine award-winning technical expertise with the intuition, insight and confidence gained from our extensive sector experience and a deeper understanding of our clients.

We look for people who understand business, people who will ask insightful questions and challenge thinking, people who are approachable, proactive and seize opportunities as they arise. In short, people who can be as fast and agile as our clients are.

Grant Thornton is one of the world's leading providers of independent assurance, tax and advisory services. Over 31,000 Grant Thornton people, across 100 countries, are focused on making a difference to clients, colleagues and the communities in which we live and work.

We are proud to have become the first major firm of business advisers to launch an all employee consultation on a model for shared enterprise which will see all of our people have a say and a stake in the firm. We're embarking on an exciting journey towards shared ideas, shared responsibility and shared reward. As a member of the team, you'll play a fundamental part on that journey of thinking like an owner, and taking ownership to help deliver our ambitious vision.