VAT - Assistant Manager

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Company Description

Evelyn Partners is the UK's leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, with over 186 years of experience in helping generations of people and businesses to thrive. We offer an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.

We provide an award-winning service for our clients by employing the best people. Join us on our mission to place the power of good advice into more hands because we believe that everyone deserves access to good advice, regardless of where they're at in their financial journey.

An exceptional track record of growth and innovation is driven by our core values of: Personal, offering advice based on a true understanding of what matters to our clients; Partnership, working with our clients in a joined-up, collaborative way; and Performance, demonstrating a breadth and depth of advice expertise to deliver first-class results.

Read more about us and available career opportunities here: Wealth, accountancy and business advisory services / Evelyn Partners and Careers / Evelyn Partners

Job Description

Business Tax

We provide a wide range of tax and consulting services to a broad range of companies.

Purpose of Role

To manage your own portfolio of VAT clients, working with Partners/Directors on complex consultancy and advisory projects as well as the review / management of some VAT compliance work.

In your role, you will provide VAT advisory services to clients in a wide range of industry sectors in the UK and internationally. You will have ample opportunity to further develop your VAT technical skills as well as your relationship building skills, managing your own client portfolio and further your career within the firm.

Key responsibilities:

To act as a key point of contact within the firm for the client, together with the VAT Associate Director/ Director / Partner.

This will involve responding quickly to, as well as anticipating, client requests/needs, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the services provided, and maintaining regular contact with clients.

Client work

• Building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering excellent client service;
• Input into the successful delivery of VAT projects, ensuring technical excellence and a commercial approach is taken;
• Manage and work on a portfolio of complex VAT advisory cases;
• To be technically strong on VAT matters
• Identifying opportunities on client portfolio
• Support on VAT due diligence including reviewing businesses for existing and potential tax issues from both a buy-side and sell-side perspective;

Staff Management and Development

• Liaison with Senior Managers to Partner grades
• Counsel and develop associate level staff through delegation and on the job training
• Work collaboratively with peers in the Business Tax team and across firm to ensure a joined up approach

Qualifications

Key Competencies

• Client focus - ability to deliver consistently excellent client service.
• Commercial awareness - delivers value to client and team profitability.
• Teamwork - organises and supports others.
• Good communicator - both written and oral.
• Problem solving - positive attitude to solving problems and deliver outcomes.

Education/Qualifications:

• Qualified (or exam qualified) Accountant (ACA, ACCA) and/or CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)

Key Experience/Skills:

• Proficient in UK VAT law gained within the profession and/or industry
• Client driven and commercially minded
• Motivated team player with a flexible attitude
• Excellent communicator
• Experience of dealing with senior stakeholders both internally and externally

Additional Information

As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include:

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependant)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we're delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.

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