Job Description

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.

With 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Finance team, with the addition of a Senior Partnership Tax Manager.

The opportunity for you

The Tax Manager is a new role within the Partnership Tax team and will report to the Head of Partnership Tax.

The Partnership Tax team is based in London and is part of the firm's Finance function.

Key responsibilities

The Tax Manager will be responsible for leading and delivering the tax compliance cycle for the LLP, its Members and its Corporate entities. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Managing the preparation of the UK LLP and UK Corporation tax computations.
• Managing the preparation of individual member tax returns.
• Ensure timely and accurate tax filings and tax payments.
• Handling HMRC correspondence.
• Delivery of Member annual tax statements to include tax reserving and tax reserve reconciliation.
• Providing responses to Member queries.
• Managing the preparation of the PAYE Settlement Agreement.
• Managing other tax compliance obligations.
• Monitoring tax environment and legislative developments and their impact on the firm and its members.
• Identification of process and control improvements, including the implementation of technology solutions.
• Support the Head of Partnership Tax with tax technical analysis and reports on projects as needed.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Highly organised and capable of designing, managing and delivering an annual tax compliance cycle.
• Willingness to undertake tasks, as well as reviewing.
• Comfortable working under pressure and meeting deadlines.
• Managing workload of self and other team members proactively and independently.
• Speed and high degree of accuracy of input.
• Attention to detail and ability to investigate and provide solutions.
• Confident and clear when communicating tax matters to key stakeholders.
• Collaborative team player.
• Seeks opportunities to learn and develop skills of self and others.

Experience

• Appropriately qualified (e.g. CTA, ACA, ATT, ACA or equivalent).
• Strong UK tax compliance background.
• Experience of operating within professional services is essential, Legal sector experience is desirable.
• Experience of tax software packages and very strong excel skills.

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;

• Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
• Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.

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