Tax Consultant

The primary focus of the role will be to manage your own portfolio of clients’ whilst supporting the wider close-knit team of caseworkers by actioning financial checks/internal queries and communicating with client accountants.

As a R&D Tax Consultant the day-to day tasks that you will be required to complete can include:

- Identification of qualifying R&D projects and expenditure through participation in technical discussions with clients
- Creating clear technical and financial documents to justify R&D activities to UK tax authorities
- Undertaking the technical assessment of claims and producing the technical summary in a clear concise, succinct way
- Support R&D Tax Relief claims in the events of HMRC R&D enquiries
- Liaise with HMRC on client’s behalf
- Determine the appropriate method of data collection through background research into clients and their relevant industries
- Keep clients updated on the ongoing development of the R&D tax relief scheme

Apart from the duties summarised above, we retain the right to include other reasonable duties.

Essential Training and Qualifications
- Part-qualified/qualified Tax Consultant or Accountant with at least 3 years’ experience of processing CT600s

Essential Experience & Skills
- Excellent report writing skills and the ability to communicate effectively to clients
- Experience in UK Corporation Tax, including experience of losses
- Outstanding numerical skills and proven track record of working to tight deadlines
- Experience in dealing with HMRC or other tax authorities
- Trustworthy and able to maintain strict confidentiality
- Ability to work on own initiative and to deadlines
- Good working knowledge of IT and relevant tax software

Desirable Experience & Skills
- Previous experience of working in team based and consultancy environment.
- Previous experience of managing workload autonomously as well as working within a team
- Previous experience of working with Research and Development (R&D) tax relief
- The ability to quickly assimilate new knowledge

**Salary**: From £50,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Commission pay
- Performance bonus

Application question(s):

- Do you have minimum ACA qualification?

**Experience**:

- corporation tax filing: 1 year (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Lancing