Business Tax Senior Associate – Creative, Media & Technology

Cape Town - South Africa
  • Corporate
  • Business Tax

You will be a member of a growing corporation tax specialist team focusing on providing pro-active corporation tax services to a wide range of clients operating in the Creative, Media & Technology sectors. You will need to be client facing, show willingness to work as part of a team and be able to meet deadlines

Essential Job Functions
  • Corporation tax compliance work on a portfolio of clients including both standalone companies and groups

  • Liaising with HMRC on queries into tax returns

  • Basic introduction to tax advisory work, under the supervision of managers, to partners and clients including:

  • research and development tax relief

  • group tax planning

  • venture capital tax reliefs

  • share schemes and valuations

  • Preparation of the tax sections of due diligence reports

  • Completion of EMI and EIS/SEIS documentation

  • Assisting managers with billing and managing work in progress on portfolio of clients

Work-Based Competencies
  • Qualified/Nearly Qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA/CA or equivalent), either working in a corporation tax role or with exposure to Corporation tax in a general practice role. Alternatively, the candidate can have relevant corporation tax experience qualified at least to ATT level

  • Has previously managed a client portfolio would be preferred but not essential

  • Able to use the Microsoft suite, including Outlook, Excel, Word

  • Knowledge of Alphatax preferred but not essential

Behavioural Competencies
  • Self-motivated individual

  • Able to deliver work to a high standard and meet internal and external deadlines

  • Displays good organisational and time management skills and the ability to run and manage a client portfolio

  • Able to demonstrate good client focused skills, the ability to work unsupervised within a team environment and can influence and negotiate

  • Good communication skills essential, being able to communicate with all levels externally and internally

  • Aware of own personal development and contributes towards it. Training and study support will be available where applicable

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles.

If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, please email sarecruitment@haysmac.com

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