Tax Assistant

Eastleigh, England, United Kingdom

12/5/2024

The vacancy

Moore Barlow is seeking a Tax Assistant to join our Southampton based team.

We are different - although a Top 100 Law firm, we strive to be 'Human First' in everything we do. This means we truly care about our teams as well as our clients. Whether you work within our legal teams, or one of our support functions, you’ll find a Career with Moore Barlow rewarding with plenty of opportunity for personal growth and development. Our offices are modern, with an onsite subsidised restaurant serving breakfast and lunch. The space is great for collaborative working or to take a well-earned break.

If you have a keen eye for detail and are interested in developing or kickstarting your career in Tax and Finance, we may be what you're looking for or perhaps you are seeking a part-time role which will allow you the opportunity to balance work and home life.

Day To Day

You will be a motivated and detail-oriented individual who will support our busy tax team, focusing primarily on preparing tax returns for the firm's partners. You will also manage a portfolio of personal tax clients, ensuring compliance with tax regulations, and provide administrative support to the Tax Manager. You will also:

• Prepare and submit self-assessment tax returns for the firm's partners, ensuring accuracy and compliance with HMRC regulations and deadlines.
• Communicate with HMRC on behalf of partners to resolve any tax queries or issues, ensuring prompt and effective resolution.
• Maintain detailed records of partner information, tax documents, and communications, ensuring all partner accounts are up-to-date and properly managed.
• Assist in the preparation and review of partnership accounts as they relate to individual partner tax computations.
• Provide general administrative support to the tax team, including maintaining files, organising documentation, and ensuring accurate data entry. Assisting with the preparation of the LLP Computations and associated analysis.
• Keep up to date with changes in tax law, regulations, and best practices relevant to partner tax returns, ensuring the firm remains compliant.
  
  

What We Look For

• You will ideally have or are working towards a recognised tax or or accounting qualification such as ATT, CTA, or AAT.
• A relevant degree or equivalent experience in tax/accounting.
• Experience in preparing personal tax returns, ideally for partners in a law firm or professional services environment.
• Experience liaising with HMRC is desirable.
• Experience of using the HMRC tax website / personal tax account interface and using CHH.
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills with attention to detail.
  
  

Our Finance team have a great reputation for onward progression and development. If you have the experience above and are keen to join a firm with excellent career development opportunities, we'd strongly encourage you to apply.

If you have the required skills and experience and are keen to advance your career as part of the Moore Barlow Team, then we strongly encourage you to apply.

Who We Are

We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.

We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.

We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.

With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.

What We Can Offer

Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.

As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.

In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.

We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.

If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.

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