VAT Assistant Manager - AJ Chambers : Job Details

Are you looking to develop your career within a nurturing environment where you can flourish? Do you want to join an award-winning firm that strives for excellence and success for our clients, our people and our business?

The role

We offer a nurturing and collaborative working culture that is caring and protecting of our people, within an environment where they can learn and flourish. In addition to a competitive remuneration package, we offer a range of flexible benefits and flexible hours of work. We have clearly defined career pathways which empower you to manage your own development. We have a number of colleague-led collaborative working groups and networks which help shape our strategy and culture.

Key accountabilities

An opportunity has arisen for a talented assistant manager to join the VAT team within our growing, award winning, corporate tax team.

This role will suit an ambitious VAT Associate or Senior Associate with experience advising on a wide range of issues and sectors, from supporting clients and internal teams with more complex queries arising from compliance through to bespoke advisory projects. Your day to day experience will include advising our clients on real estate transactions, partial exemption and VAT recovery issues, place of establishment advice for multi-national clients and supporting negotiations with HMRC. The role also offers the opportunity to become involved with customs duty focused international supply chain projects. The role is predominantly advisory focused with very limited indirect tax compliance.

We are open to flexible working arrangements for this position

Key responsibilities and duties will include the following:

• Provision of VAT and customs duty advisory services to new and existing clients.
• Providing VAT due diligence, VAT structuring and restructuring advice on a wide range of transactions.
• Advising our clients on cutting edge developments in VAT legislation and case law as well as changes in HMRC policy.
• Being the first point of contact for many clients.
• Being involved in business development and proposal activity.
• Carrying out detailed technical research.
• Dealing with ad-hoc technical queries as these arise from the compliance teams and from other areas of the business.
• Supporting the delivery of VAT technical training internally and helping to draft VAT focused content for client alerts and press releases.
• Ensuring all risk procedures are adhered to.

You will be involved with a wide range of clients, so broad indirect tax experience across a range of sectors is desirable but not essential.

The ideal candidate would be CTA qualified or part qualified (indirect tax route), or ATT qualified and prepared to study towards CTA.

“You will be joining a friendly, supportive team within a forward thinking and fast growing business. You will become an important member of our VAT team, supporting our diverse portfolio of clients. Although VAT focused, in this role you will also have the opportunity to work on customs duties focused international supply chain projects. This is an advisory focused role providing a great opportunity for a talented and motivated individual with existing indirect tax knowledge looking to advance their career.”