Senior Employment Tax Manager

About Crowe

Crowe is a leading national firm offering audit, tax, advisory, and consulting services with global reach and local expertise. As an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the top 10 accounting networks worldwide, we have access to over 40,000 professionals across 140+ countries and more than 800 offices globally.

Our vision is to be a leader in our chosen markets, creating lasting value for our clients and our people and being a trusted partner in their success.

We are dedicated to driving client success, empowering our people, embracing sustainability, delivering technological change and acting in the public interest.

We have a vacancy for an Employment Tax Manager to work in our Thames Valley office tax team. This is a full-time permanent role with flexible working and progression opportunities.

You will work closely with the local tax partners and the national Workforce Advisory group to deliver a range of employment tax work.  You will work with a wide range of clients from owner-managed companies and quoted groups to local and national charities. You will be involved in compliance and ad hoc advisory work and business development initiatives, working with the team to generate new work.

You should be qualified ACA/CTA (or equivalent) with extensive practical tax experience. You will be expected to use your own initiative and work as part of a team, liaising with other tax specialists, audit and corporate finance colleagues.

The role requirements

• ACA/CTA or equivalent qualification.
• Significant employment tax experience on a range of compliance and advisory projects.
• A passion for client service.
• Ideally a track record of developing new work.

Your technical skills

Ability to generate and deliver general employment tax consultancy advice such as:

• Employer compliance reviews, Internal audit or Health check work.
• Status of workers.
• Due diligence work.
• Class 1A NIC and P11D reporting.
• Expenses and benefit tax treatment.
• Remuneration planning – previous exposure to bonus, share schemes and salary sacrifice planning desirable.
• Construction Industry scheme.
• Assisting clients with the preparation of various statutory forms, including P11D’s, share scheme and employment related securities reporting.

Your people responsibilities

• Demonstrating personal commitment to work and team success; showing positive attitude and enthusiasm for work and taking initiative to make improvements when appropriate.
• Consistently treating colleagues with fairness and respect, helping to provide opportunities for everyone to contribute and succeed.
• Providing and being receptive to regular and constructive feedback that improves self and others. Continually developing skills and knowledge.
• Influencing, changing and shaping the direction of a particular activity, either internally and/or externally.
• Coaching members of staff through sharing experience and knowledge.
• Providing on-the-job training for developing colleagues.
• Participating in service line, office and firm wide activities.

Your direct client responsibilities

• Identifying opportunities to take additional services to clients and contacts, including corporate taxes, VAT, personal taxes and corporate finance support.
• Acting at all times with the Firm’s best interests in mind and with integrity.
• Demonstrating an understanding of the different types of risks faced by the client, including the management of reputational, operational and credit risk in all interactions with clients.
• Showing a sense of urgency and understanding of how the delivery of work (including speed, attention to detail, and quality) impacts the Firm’s ability to serve clients.
• Identifying areas requiring improvement in the client’s business processes and possible recommendations for the client.
• Taking primary responsibility for financial performance on your client and project work.

Qualities we are looking for

• Ability to execute work efficiently, delivering excellent service and bringing the full breadth of Crowe UK’s capability to support our clients.
• Act as a role model for members of the team, providing on-the-job coaching.
• Adherence to the firm’s risk management policies at all times.
• Delivering work to the highest quality.
• Ability to provide fast and intuitive analysis; correctly interpreting data, including financial statements and source documents.
• Demonstration of the ability to effectively understand and manage risk matters.
• A commitment to your personal development, being willing to undertake the necessary training to fulfil the main duties and skill sets of the grade.
• Able to deal with change in a positive manner.

Why choose Crowe?

Whatever career you choose, whether in audit, tax, marketing or HR, we can offer you a rewarding and clear career pathway, designed to help you develop your existing talents as well as discovering new ones, positioning you to make a meaningful difference to our ever-growing and varied client base.

At Crowe we foster a collaborative and inclusive culture, and we will encourage, support and guide you on an exciting professional journey of self-discovery.

We value innovation and welcome those committed to making a difference for our clients, communities, and colleagues. With access to expert knowledge, continuous learning, competitive salaries, and flexible benefits, you will have the tools to build a rewarding career.

We are committed to diversity in our teams, equal opportunity and merit-based progression. We promote a healthy working environment with flexible working approach alongside dedicated wellbeing support, helping our people to thrive both professionally and personally.

Following changes to government policy in April 2024, we only accept applications from individuals with an existing, permanent, right to live and work in the UK. 

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