Entrepreneurial Tax

**We are looking for an Entrepreneurial Tax Assistant Manager / Manager or Senior Manager to join our team. Location is flexible around the UK.**

**Job Purpose**:
We are looking to recruit an Entrepreneurial Tax Assistant Manager / Manager / Senior Manager to join our growing Entrepreneurial Tax team at Johnston Carmichael. With having such a diverse client base and being part of a large international network, no day is the same. The role will be client facing and involve working on projects from inception, through to assisting with implementation and delivery.

You will keep up to date with the latest share scheme and venture capital scheme changes and will reflect on how those changes may impact our clients.

**The Entrepreneurial Tax Assistant Manager / Manager / Senior Manager will be responsible for (but not limited to)**:

- Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) / Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) Advance Assurance and qualifying status.
- SEIS/EIS Compliance Statements and liaison with HMRC.
- Advising on the impact of new funding/changes in a business on the SEIS/EIS position.
- Implementing employee share option schemes such as Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) and Company Share Option Plans (CSOP), as well as direct share issues including Growth Shares & Flowering Shares, with valuation work being absolutely critical to this.
- Structuring share incentives to meet clients’ specific needs.
- Assisting with internal valuation memoranda and wider corporate matters, including queries as part of diligence.
- Employment Related Securities advice including the impact of making s431 elections.
- Employment Related Securities (ERS) annual reporting.

**About You**:

- A leader of your work and your professional learning
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to positively impact and influence others
- You should have experience in entrepreneurial tax work, as listed above, and be willing to learn and develop these skills further.
- You should have strong report writing skills and be able to distil complex tax issues into a format that stakeholders without specialist tax knowledge can understand.
- You should also be experienced in liaising with professional advisers and clients.
- Ideally you will be CA and/or CTA qualified.

**Why JC?**

With 13 offices across Scotland and beyond, we’re one of the country’s leading firms of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers. Working at Johnston Carmichael means working in a team of over 800 sharp minds - each of which is valued and heard. We support our people to ensure they can grow their own way - when it comes to learning, it’s your JC path and you choose what route it takes.

At Johnston Carmichael we want what’s best for our clients, our people, and our communities. You’ll be joining a team that’s engaged with its local communities and committed to supporting them. Over the last decade, we’ve raised over £450,000 for charitable causes across Scotland and we’re also Gold Sponsors of the Kiltwalk. You can read more about our culture and the values that define us here.

If you value enabling leadership, quality, integrity, and a workplace that prioritises giving back as much as you put in, then Johnston Carmichael is the firm for you.

**Why join the Entrepreneurial Tax team?**

Working in the Entrepreneurial Tax team means not only working with the wider tax teams or client relationship managers but also working with a wide variety of clients across a broad range of sectors including Technology, Life Sciences and Food & Drink, to name a few

In a single day we can be advising on a potential sale to an Employee Ownership Trust, valuing the shares of the company for the purposes of an EMI share scheme, advising on the EIS qualifying status of a company for the purposes of an investment round or providing EMI or ERS advice on a due diligence exercise.

It is exciting and challenging to understand the tax technical rules behind the scenes then distil this to our clients as clear and concise information and next steps.

It is a rewarding role as the advice given can help our clients grow their businesses

No two days are the same in the Entrepreneurial Tax team at Johnston Carmichael.

**How working for us can work for you**:
As a valued member of the Johnston Carmichael team, you’ll benefit from a number of employee benefits including but not exhaustive to; a personal pension scheme, annual leave, access to private healthcare and life assurance, as well as your own personal training and development plan - Your JC Path. Click here to see what’s on offer at Johnston Carmichael.

We know that 9-5 office hours in the city aren’t for everyone, and part of creating your own JC Path is having the ability to work flexibly. We support a hybrid working model where everyone is a leader of their work and learning. One size doesn’t fit all, so let’s discuss what might work for you and our firm.