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Employment Tax Manager / Senior Manager

Newcastle
Full-time
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Employment Tax Manager / Senior Manager

About Us
 

We are proud to hold the Investors in People Gold accreditation and to be recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Best Places to Work. This reflects our commitment to fostering an environment where both emerging and experienced talent can continuously learn, develop, and grow.

The Role

Our tax team is growing, and we have a fantastic opportunity for a client facing Employment Tax Senior Manager to join us and help shape a high performing employment tax offering to clients and internal colleagues.


The role can be based from any of our offices including Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Carlisle and Newcastle.

The role can be based from any of our offices including Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Carlisle and Newcastle.

Providing a top-class advisory service across the entire spectrum of Employment Tax areas for our clients will be a key part of the role, including HMRC enquiries, employment status/IR35 advisory, National Minimum Wage, CIC etc, and projects with the wider Tax team such as due diligence support, CCO and SAO reviews.

Our Employment Tax Team services clients across the entire firm, covering employers within a wide range of industry sectors and sizes up to and including businesses within the Senior Accounting Officer regime. 

The main elements of this role will include:

  • Ensuring establishment of scope and budget for each piece of work is in place and ensuring adequate briefing to the team members is given
  • Leading the delivery of high-quality Employment Tax technical advice to clients ranging from ad hoc queries to larger advisory projects
  • Being the main employment tax relationship contact with key clients
  • Supporting clients with HMRC enquiries, disclosures, and settlements on employment tax matters.
  • Contributing to business development through networking, proposal writing, and client relationship management.
  • Delivering technical updates and training to clients and internal teams on employment tax developments.
  • Delegating work to junior colleagues and supporting their development
  • Supporting the partner with strategic advice and shaping the service offering going forward

The Candidate

In order to fulfil the responsibilities of the position, we would like candidates to have:

  • Significant experience in employment tax, ideally gained in practice, already operating at Senior Manager level, or ready to step up into a Senior Manager role
  • Strong technical experience across all areas of employment tax
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills with both colleagues and clients
  • Commercial awareness and the ability to solve problems

The Benefits

  • Smart Working Policy, giving you the ability to balance home and remote working
  • Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 confidential support for wellbeing and health)
  • Paid flu jabs and eye tests
  • Introductory Commission Scheme (financial reward if you refer a new client)
  • Paid professional membership fees

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