Tax jobs in United Kingdom
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Junior Tax Accountant
Job summary
A leading accountancy firm seeks a recent graduate for a trainee Tax adviser position in Liverpool. As a trainee, you'll work closely with clients to understand and apply tax legislation, ensuring efficient tax compliance and strategy. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain valuable experience in the finance sector while developing key advisory skills in a supportive environment.
Qualifications
- Recent graduate with a 2:1 or above in a numerically based degree.
- Competent IT skills, particularly in Excel.
- Accurate and details-oriented, capable of managing responsibilities independently.
Responsibilities
- Assist with researching and interpreting tax legislation.
- Prepare and submit compliance (tax) returns by deadlines.
- Liaise and negotiate with HM Revenue & Customs on behalf of clients.
Skills
Education
Tools
My Client is an accounts practice looking for a recent graduate to join their tax department. Working as a trainee Tax adviser you'll gain knowledge of tax legislation to provide advisory and consultancy services to clients, ensuring that they pay their taxes in the most efficient way and benefit from any tax advantages and exemptions.
Duties will include assisting with:
- researching, analysing and interpreting changing tax legislation in both the UK and overseas
- meeting with clients and collating information
- working with tax law and revenue provisions
- preparing and submitting compliance (tax) returns by the deadline
- liaising and negotiating with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) on behalf of the client
- providing consultancy services to high-value private clients
- creating tax strategies for clients and planning their financial futures
- carrying out detailed computations to calculate tax liability and advising on how to minimise a client's liability
- establishing and structuring family trusts
- estate planning and advising on tax residence and domicile matters
- providing guidance on indirect taxation issues such as VAT, customs planning and environmental taxes
- producing reports and presentations for clients.
Your key skills should include:
- Must have a 2:1 or above in Accountancy & Finance or a numerically based degree
- Competent IT skills especially on Excel including using a wide range of functions and formulas, creating pivot tables.
- Accurate with good attention to detail is essential for this role given the responsibility of checking payment details
- An ability to pick up and understand systems and processes easily
- Methodical and organised
- Be able to take responsibility for your tasks and deliver to deadlines without prompting
- Good at juggling tasks and prioritising
- A good team player
- Show initiative
If you are interested in this role please contact John Devlin at Agility Resourcing.
Please note due to the large volume of applications we receive for these roles, if we have not contacted you within 7 days then, unfortunately, your application hasn't been successful, however, we may contact you regarding other roles. We're sorry we can't contact you directly but we wish you all the best in your job search.
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