Tax Opportunities

Hutcheon Mearns are thrilled to partner with this mid-tier, tech-focused accountancy practice to recruit for various Tax Opportunities in Aberdeen.

**About the Firm**:
This technology-focused firm is dedicated to helping you achieve your career goals. Catering to both the client and the team experience, they provide their employees with a plethora of resources and support to ensure that they can get the most out of their experience working in their teams, enabling advantageous career growth.

The Aberdeen client portfolio is highly varied, and includes clients in the following sectors:

- Energy
- Business Services
- Construction & Property
- Food & Drink,
- Manufacturing
- Retail and hospitality
- Not for profit
- Public Sector
- Technology

The total headcount of the office is circa 250 employees, covering the firm’s full business offering and all service lines.

**Opportunities Currently Available**:
**Tax Senior Manager - Private Client**
- Key Responsibilities:_
- Oversee and support the team in all aspects of a client portfolio, ensuring all client deadlines and demands are met by the wider client engagement team
- Take ownership of the client portfolio, continue to strengthen relationships with clients and their wider professional network to ensure satisfaction with services provided, working alongside client’s advisors, and identifying opportunities to support clients
- Be a vital part of the management team who is involved with day-to-day team operations, ensuring internal and external targets and deadlines are met, including supporting the leadership team in setting and delivering the strategic objectives of the department
- Play an active role in the development and growth of the firm by identifying and progressing opportunities to promote the business in the marketplace, seeking new opportunities and securing new work, with the support of the business development team where required
- Be recognised as a “go to” technical expert, particularly in relation to Inheritance Tax, Trusts, Estates and succession planning and present as a specialist both internally and externally
- Liaise with external advisors as appropriate to deliver high level tax advice
- Oversee compliance and advisory work, effectively project managing challenging technical advice
- Provide quality briefing to staff on delegation of work, with appropriate and ongoing support
- Continually and independently develop technical expertise to maintain market leading specialist client service, sharing technical expertise with clients and wider market
- Take responsibility for sharing technical expertise across the team and wider firm to both manage and facilitate development of connected service lines
- Build practical solutions, offers recommendations and be able to demonstrate to clients the value of this work, with due regard for risk
- Actively maintain long standing, trusted client relationships on behalf of the firm
- Required Experience:_
- Relevant professional tax qualification (e.g. CA, ATT, CTA, STEP or similar)
- Previous experience of working in a similar role including particular technical experience as detailed above
- Expertise in compliance and advisory work
- Track record of handling a client portfolio with strong client engagement
- Experience of managing a team
- Use of tax software, preferably CCH
- Ability to undertake independent technical research, preferably using Tolleys Guidance/ Library

**R&D Assistant Manager / Manager**
- Key Responsibilities:_
- To contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of R&D tax services
- Gathering financial information from our clients and assessing eligibility to be included in the R&D claims, calculating and explaining the tax benefits to the client, and preparing tax computations to submit the R&D claims to HMRC
- Build and maintain relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service
- Manage client claim projects and to manage conflicting resourcing requirements between projects
- Actively manage and control the delivery of all aspects of assignments for a variety of clients, including resourcing the assignments and setting timescales and budgets, liaison between departments of the firm, and presentation of work to clients
- Develop expertise and undertake detailed technical research of an advanced nature as required, and present this clearly at client meetings or in written form, offer practical solutions and recommendations with due regard for risk
- Manage and support the team in all aspects of a client portfolio working alongside the client engagement team ensuring all client deadlines and demands are met
- Take ownership of client portfolio, continuing to develop relationships with clients and their wider professional network to ensure satisfaction with services provided, working alongside client’s advisors, and identifying opportunities to support clients
- Take ownership and responsibility for delivery of all aspects of client work fro