Tax Compliance Senior

**About Armstrong Watson LLP**

As an expanding business with 18 offices at present, Armstrong Watson LLP is a leading independent accountancy firm ranked in the top 30 firms of accountants and business advisers.

With approximately 520 colleagues, our people and our culture are at the heart of what we do. We recognise the unique impact our employees have on not only our clients, but also our colleagues and the communities in which we operate in. Our success is dependent on every colleague behaving consistently across all four of our values: Passion, Trust, Honesty and Humanity.

**The Role**

The overall purpose of this role will be to carry out compliance work on a varied portfolio of clients. The portfolio will include a mixture of complex returns and will involve proactively identifying tax-planning opportunities for our clients.

The main elements of this role will include:

- Being responsible for entering tax information into the relevant sections of our tax software ready for review by a Tax Compliance Manager. In a full tax year this will equate to data entry for a mixed portfolio of up to 750 simple and complex personal tax returns
- Dealing with complex areas within their portfolio, including Profit Sharing, Farmers Averaging Claims, CGT computations, Pension Planning, Loss Relief claims, Foreign Income etc
- Sending reminders to clients of required / missing information
- Completing electronic submissions of returns to HMRC
- Agreeing HMRC correspondence including statements of account, coding notices and repayment notices to our tax software;
- Using technical tax knowledge to liaise with internal colleagues on matters affecting tax returns and dealing with basic and complex queries from clients
- Reporting any HMRC compliance enquiry notices to the Tax Compliance Manager
- Taking ownership of the tax return portfolio - chasing the relevant internal colleagues and clients to ensure missing information is obtained and all returns in portfolio are submitted to HMRC by the filing deadline
- Providing support and training on tax data entry to Tax Compliance Assistants
- Liaising with HMRC and clients in respect of any discrepancies between our tax software and HMRC correspondence
- Be ATT Qualified
- Have a minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a similar role
- Be experienced working within a professional Accounting environment
- Have experience using CCH Personal Tax Software (desirable)
- Communicate effectively and be confident when speaking with clients and colleagues (both verbally and in written form)
- Have sufficient IT skills and experience using accounting software
- Be a determined and motivated individual striving to provide an efficient service to all clients
- Be aware of the relevant Accounting Standards and ensure you can comply with their instruction at all times

**The Benefits**

In return for your hard work helping us shape our future growth and development; we will provide a competitive salary and a positive benefits package which includes:

- 3.1% Employer Contribution Pension Scheme including Life Cover and Income Protection
- Enhanced Annual Leave which will increase throughout your length of service and option an Annual Leave Purchase Scheme allowing you to buy up to 5 additional days annual leave each year
- Flexible & Smart Working - giving you the ability to balance home-working, office location etc.
- Life Cover of 4x your salary
- Health Shield Cash Plan (provides cash back on a range of Health benefits and discounts on fashion, entertainment, holidays etc)
- Introductory Commission Scheme (financial reward if you refer a new client)
- Employee Assistance Programme (confidential support for emotional wellbeing)
- Employee Referral Scheme (financial reward if you refer new AW colleagues) of up to £2,000
- Detailed and thorough on-the-job training
- Reviews and appraisals with your management team to ensure regular communication and providing you with a platform to enhance your career

In addition to all the benefits you would expect from an award winning employer, you will be given the utmost encouragement and support to develop your career further.

When you’re with us... we’re with you.