As a Corporate Tax Senior, you will manage the preparation and review of corporate tax returns, ensuring compliance with UK tax legislation. You will handle complex tax issues, support junior staff, and liaise with clients to provide advice on tax planning and obligations. Your role ensures accurate and efficient delivery of tax services and client satisfaction.




Core Skills




Client Focus

• Set budgets and monitor them against ongoing job progress and report results to manager, communicate overruns/additional services taking corrective action when appropriate and necessary


• Manage flexible working of self and assistants based around client needs and business deadlines


• Demonstrate ability to secure opportunities for Azets to add value to clients


• Is able to deal with challenging client feedback.

Technical Excellence

• Provides support, guidance and training to all team members and highlight areas of weakness through timely feedback


• Has strong sector knowledge, however is aware of when to escalate more complex technical queries.

Key accountabilities




Commitment

• Takes responsibility for the workflow planning of the team


• Proactively seeks out new opportunities to develop their skills and experience away from purely operational tasks


• Takes responsibility for achieving goals and targets


• Can keep track and manage several tasks simultaneously.

Living Our Values

• Shows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours.

Technical Skills

• Preparation of tax accounting workings for ABAS / audit clients for review by Managers, encompassing both current and deferred tax, with minimal adjustments being required


• Ability to calculate, understand and explain the current and deferred tax charge


• Assisting with technical research and advice in respect of advisory projects (for example reorganisations, one-off transactions)


• Telephone calls with HMRC in respect of advanced queries (examples include allocation of payments to clients CT accounts, allocation of interest)


• Provide daily guidance and support to junior members of staff


• Exercise judgement where there is a degree of uncertainty over a decision and tests out robustness of key options. Escalate an issue to the senior team where needed


• Manage a portfolio of less complex clients with minimal supervision.

Qualifications



Achieved an accountancy and/or tax qualification or qualified by experience (e.g. ATT/CTA/ACA/ACCA/CA).




Essential Experience



It is expected that the above core and technical skills will have been developed through study alongside work experience in an accountancy practice.