Senior Tax Consultant

Coventry

Tax Consultant - Senior

Location: CV4 8AW

Oldfield is an accountancy, tax advisory and business growth specialist with over 45 years’ experience in helping small to medium sized businesses achieve success, with clients around the UK.

At Oldfield, we are not just building a business, we’re cultivating a workplace that ignites passion, drives innovation, and fuels success.

Our vision is transforming the quality of life for business owners, through creating, maintaining, and growing wealth.

What makes us unique:

Quality client base - over 90% of our clients are over £1m turnover and have a growth mindset.

The size of our clients means that the work is both challenging and rewarding.

We invest in our people through quality training and our internal academy.

Embracing technology and systems to help you deliver and add value to clients.

Dedicated client service team to plan and manage workflow and completing admin work; freeing up our accountants and advisors to do what they love doing best! Well planned workflow ensures we don’t have a January tax return rush!

Supportive family culture - we’re in small teams so you feel supported, plus get exposure to more types of work.

Oldfield has built a reputation for being able to design and deliver effective corporate tax solutions that are both creative and robust. The level of expertise and ability to deliver on this significantly outstrips and outweighs both small and mid-market competitors and has become a significant driver of referral business for clients looking for the most creative and robust corporate tax solutions. Clients love the fact that we can both create and efficiently deliver solutions, and our integrated approach to working with our legal partners is central to this. We know of no other firm in the market that can deliver an equivalent range and quality of tax solutions for our client base.

The successful Senior Tax Consultant would be joining a strong existing tax team with extensive experience in company tax planning work for OMBs, including group reorganisations, management buy outs/ins, demergers, incorporations, pension funds, property tax planning, together with a growing M&A function.

Senior Tax Consultant - Responsibilities

Provide accurate tax advice to clientele as requested by various communication channels.

Manage multiple tax projects (typically corporate reorganisations) as required to completion.

Deliver the project as per the Project Brief within expected timescales, budget and agreed tax position.

Delivery of project includes effective communication with client, internally and other 3rd parties (including solicitors)

Contributing to and following the internal project steps plan. This could include (but not limited to):

Preparation of valuations

Tax analysis

Drafting HMRC clearances and correspondence

Instructing solicitors

Involvement in registrations, elections, other filings

Tax planning to optimise outcomes for clients

Communication with clients, to present, provide advise and keep them informed at different points in project

Firm risk mitigation by ensuring procedures are robust, relevant disclosures are made to HMRC, etc.

Ensuring all deadlines and filings requirements are adhered to.

Create strategies for businesses and individuals to minimise their tax liabilities.

Deliver projects or tasks on-time (DOT) and within budget (DIB) as per internal and statutory deadlines.

Senior Tax Consultant - Skills & Attributes required:

Fully CTA qualified

Ideally 5+ years' post-qualification experience

Prepared to adapt to our way of doing things, solutions oriented and client centric

Technical approach - deep knowledge/experience of corporate tax, works from first principles/legislation rather than guidance/HMRC view

Keen attitude to learning and growing your knowledge

A positive attitude and enthusiastic contributor to the team

Ability to problem solve and find solutions

Good presentation and communication skills

Senior Tax Consultant - Attractive benefits & perks

Generous base salary - £TBC subject to experience.

Company car or car allowance option (after qualifying period in the role).

Free quality lunch provided each day

30 Days Holiday (incl. bank holidays).

Flexible working hours

Profit share scheme (after qualifying period in the role)

Fully funded study package

Medical insurance (after qualifying period in the role)

Reward Lunches

Team Building days

Young and vibrant team

Testimonials from recent starters:

"For me personally, the best thing about working at Oldfield Advisory is the sense of satisfaction you can have in being able to help, assist and support a wide variety of clients and businesses in their financial affairs. You can play an active role in growing profitability of your clients by providing meaningful information to improve the effectiveness of management decisions."

"Working as an accountant at Oldfield, I have found the work to be very rewarding and meaningful. There is plenty of scope to learn and progress, alongside doing valuable work for clients and building strong professional relationships with other businesses."

"There is a lot of variety in the job which keeps it engaging and satisfying. The management’s care for the staff is second to none, recognition is generous and support throughout the career is excellent. We have an inspiring set of values and an awesome team, creating a quality culture and atmosphere".