Corporate Tax Senior

Mazars ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
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Job Type: Full-time

Overview

As a member of the Tax Advisory team within the Edinburgh office your role will be exclusively advisory focussed. You will work closely with the Partner, Director and Manager team to deliver a high quality tax service to entrepreneurial businesses and private clients at all times, whilst building up and sharing your own knowledge and expertise across all taxes associated with privately owned business. Your primary focus will be on delivering high quality tax advice, whilst also having a role in managing existing client relationships and actively pursuing new opportunities, thus helping to generate advisory work from new clients. Clients Rather than being provided with a portfolio of clients, you will assist the Partner, Director and Manager team to actively pursue new relationships with directors and shareholders of owner managed and family businesses. Typically, you will be advising businesses and high net worth individuals on a whole range of issues, including (but not exclusively) group reorganisations, how to tax efficiently structure commercial transactions, share schemes advice, Research and Development tax relief analysis, arranging clients affairs to minimise tax. Job Role • Working with more senior members of the advisory team to develop your Privately Owned Business advisory knowledge and capabilities; • Researching legislation, including providing technical analysis on the impact that new legislation may have on clients; • Preparing tax advisory letters, proposals, memos and reports for review; • Drafting statutory and non-statutory clearances in respect of transactional work, and actively liaising with HMRC; • Liaising with clients, intermediaries (being banks, lawyers or financial advisors), and colleagues throughout advisory engagements; • The individual may be required to manage WIP and fees. At very least the individual will need to have an understanding of the WIP and recoveries. • Maintaining an up-to-date technical knowledge of personal tax and business tax matters. Person Specification • Entrepreneurial business tax focus, with a strong technical knowledge from private client and/or corporate tax background; • Experience in privately owned business advisory projects would be preferred but not necessary, as training and personal development will be provided. • CTA qualified • Willingness to be involved in complex and dynamic transactions; • Strong client handling skills and the ability to develop good relationships with clients and other professionals; • Depending on grade recruited, the individual would be expected to delegate efficiently, review work and have the ability to encourage and foster development of the more junior members of the team; • Equally the individual will need to be able to work collaboratively with more senior members of the advisory team in delivering advisory projects; • Excellent communication skills both oral and written; • Adaptable, organised with a commercial approach; • Ability to research complex technical issues; • Ability to exercise judgement; • Ability to help generate creative solutions to problems; • Ability to demonstrate an understanding of risk management issues; • Seeks to progress their career within the tax profession in an advisory environment dealing in wide spectrum issues WORKING AT MAZARS We embrace your individual strengths to capitalise on what makes you unique. We are proud to offer a working environment where everyone is given opportunities to shine. The firm promotes an environment in which you can be yourself, grow and achieve your goals. Whether you want to gain exposure to different types of clients, learn new skills or move nationally or internationally, Mazars offers plenty of opportunity to achieve your goals. At Mazars we operate an agile approach to working. For us agile working means empowering and trusting our people. Empowering our people to work where, when and how they choose. And trusting our people to make the right choices for Mazars, their team and themselves to deliver the best outcome for the client. By its very nature, agile working won’t look the same for everyone. Ultimately it’s up to our people to decide what’s right. At Mazars diversity and inclusion are central to our values. We also recognise that being a diverse and inclusive organisation makes us stronger as a business. We seek to attract and recruit people who reflect the diverse nature of our clients and communities, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, nationality, faith or belief, social background, age and disability. Mazars selects candidates based on skills, qualifications and experience. WE ARE MAZARS We are a positively different international accountancy and advisory firm. With entrepreneurship and a desire to create value at the heart of our DNA, we differentiate ourselves by the opportunities we offer our people, our approach to working with clients and our passion for responsible business. We are proud of our strong European heritage, our smart and sustainable growth and of the single global partnership we have built to serve clients around the world. For more information regarding careers at Mazars please visit

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