Develop your skills working for this award-winning firm and truly make an impact. The Employment Solutions (ES) team is part of this Big 4 firm's rapidly growing employment advisory practice. ES provides specialist employment taxes and benefits advice as part of a multi-disciplined team able to advise national and global clients on all aspects of the tax and national insurance treatment of cash or share based rewards, expenses and benefits. This specialist advice is varied and will offer you a challenging environment in which to progress your career.
The role
The ES team offers the following specialist advice:
* Providing advice to large employers in respect of PAYE and NIC matters
* Undertaking site visits to clients to ensure that their systems and procedures comply with PAYE and Expense & benefit compliance requirements
* Producing reports in respect of the above
* Assisting with HMRC investigations and liaising with the tax authorities
* Providing advice on the tax/NIC treatment of non-cash remuneration
* Providing support on large projects on behalf of, or in association with clients where HMRC requirements have to be met
* Drafting expenses and benefits policies and procedures on behalf of clients in accordance with their commercial needs and the current environment
* Due diligence work in order to identify any material exposure to unpaid tax/NIC which may affect the proposed transaction eg acquisitions or mergers
* Designing and implementing of salary sacrifice arrangements would be an advantage
As a Senior Associate your role will see you undertake the following responsibilities:
* Working closely with Managers and Senior Managers, providing support in a technical role on reports, meetings, research & client management
* Liaising with colleagues who are accountable for other aspects of the clients' affairs, for example, corporate tax, actuaries, employment lawyers
* Co-ordinating work within the firm on ES related projects often liaising with third party advisors
* Identifying opportunities for the team or for other parts of the firm to provide further services to clients or other parties
About you
A good working knowledge of the technical aspects of PAYE/NIC is desirable. A good understanding of the taxation of company cars and experience in the design and delivery of salary sacrifice projects would be an advantage.
The candidate will have gained strong experience in these areas in a professional practice and wish to develop their technical skills.
Alternatively, you may have recently qualified at ACA level and be looking for a career in taxation outside corporation tax.
The role will demand that the candidates have most, if not all, of the following skills:
* A good understanding of the current law and practice in respect of employment tax and NIC in the UK; preferably a formal qualification
* The ability to work either alone or in a team
* The ability to negotiate with regulatory authorities
* Strong written and oral communication skills
* Good interpersonal skills.
* Appreciation of wider employee benefit/HR issues
* Strong organisational skills
We request applications to be submitted in a word format only.
Pure Recruitment Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. Pure Recruitment Group Limited aims to promote diversity and equal opportunity through its work - we monitor and evaluate our performance on a regular basis.
Please note our advertisements use PQE levels purely as a guide to the minimum level of experience that we anticipate will be needed to fulfil the position. However, we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role and they will be considered on an equal basis.
Pure Taxation was established in 1999 as part of the Pure Recruitment Group. Rather than imitate existing providers of tax recruitment consultancy, we sought to create a new methodology based on quality, relationships and integrity. Since then, Pure Taxation has become market leader in the UK because of our approach to recruitment and the excellence of our experienced consultants, making us a profitable business every year since inception.
Our current team comprises of 16 specialist consultants in London and Hong Kong focusing on permanent tax recruitment in the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions, three specialists in interim tax recruitment and four dedicated support and research staff, making us the largest dedicated tax recruiter in the UK.
