Financial/Tax Accountant

As a Senior Financial Accountant, you will be responsible for tax advisory and tax compliance services to a wide range of Owners Manages Businesses (Limited companies, Partnerships and LLPs) and sole traders/ Self-employed clients.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Client Work including

• Drafting tax clearances and tax reports
• Technical research
• Prepare business tax computations/tax returns (Corporation tax returns and income tax returns)
• Prepare election control sheets and client review sheets
• Review work of colleagues and juniors lists to ensure all relevant deadlines met
• Contribute at client meetings
• Deals with HMRC correspondence including responding to enquiries
• Prepare billing analyses and draft fee notes
• Preparation, Finalising and submission of statutory accounts for the OMBs (LTD companies & LLPs) as required by Companies House

2. Training and Development

• Attend internal and external training sessions

3. Assisting other Staff Members

• Provide support to other staff members and partners on chargeable and non-chargeable work when required

4. Compliance

• Ensuring relevant client deadlines are met
• Ensuring Lanop's procedures are adhered to
• Involvement in some office's administrative tasks

Key Competencies:

1. Planning and Organising

• Must be able to plan workload to prioritise work to meet conflicting deadlines and cope with pressure

2. Written and Oral Communication

• Good written communication skills are necessary to draft correspondence with clients and HMRC to explain technical issues in an easily understandable manner
• Must have good inter-personal skills to be able to liaise with clients and other staff members

3. Customer Focus

• Meeting deadlines and responding to client needs

4. Teamwork

• Provide link in chain to supervise staff members below and support Directors above

5. Maintain Technical Expertise

Candidate Profile

Education/Qualifications:

• Active ACCA Affiliates/Members

Key Experience/Skills:

• Minimum 4 years of work experience in accounting firm in UK is required please note if you do not have minimum required experience, we will not respond to the CV
• Technically capable tax adviser who can assist in OMB tax planning.
• Demonstrable experience of managing people
• Appetite to grow business development skills
• Strong IT skills
• Experience

Notes:

Mention "Financial/Tax Accountant" on the subject line.
Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted for further process.