Have you trained within corporate tax / tax compliance, now looking for new career options? This is a highly innovative tax technology business with continued growth plans now seeking to recruit an IT-savvy corporate tax assistant or tax senior to join their software development team. You do not need to be an IT or software specialist to succeed in this role, although you will require strong analytical / logical thinking and enjoy working on IT applications, such as Excel or Access. Once transitioned into the team, key responsibilities will be modelling and encoding tax rules and legislation into new and existing software, working closely with pure IT programmers, and ensuring that the software has sufficient and up-to-date content. There will also be scope in the future to work in a team to design and develop new tax software applications. Opportunities exist to develop the software for both UK and other international jurisdictions. To match up to this role, you will have a solid grounding in corporate tax compliance gained with a large accounting firm, or in-house, preferably ACA / ICAS / CTA qualified, now wishing to consider an IT-based tax career. You will have a strong academic background, with high grades in subjects such as Maths / Physics. You will be good at and enjoy improving the quality and accuracy of tax computations through use of Excel or tax software applications (e.g. Abacus or Alphatax). You will have a good appreciation of tax software as a user, now wishing to be instrumental at improving its capabilities. This will be a progressive role, with opportunities to move your career up within the field of tax technology. Some occasional international travel may be required.
Recruiter:
Talentpool Selection
Talentpool's expertise is in the successful management of tax recruitment assignments for head office functions of large FTSE companies, Global 500 businesses and financial services. Using innovative candidate selection techniques, we are expert at providing our clients with the most talented candidates in the market.
For candidates, this means meeting you in strict confidence, understanding your background, listening to your career plans, getting to know what makes you tick. We can then discuss the best course of action, using techniques that should give you a competitive advantage.
For clients, we aim to meet you, understand your business and discuss your exact recruitment needs. Together with our own research on your company and related sectors of the tax market, we will feel confident in selecting a small number of candidates that will fit very well with both a particular role and your culture.
Our focus is recruiting within the commercial, industrial and banking sectors, however we also have valuable experience of advising candidates within the practice market.
