VAT​/Indirect Tax Advisor

Overview

A leading accountancy firmare hiring a key role in their VAT advisory team, accessible from Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln and surrounding areas, but you can be based or live elsewhere, as the firm offers hybrid working, as long as you can spend at least 1/2 of your time in an East Midlands office.

The firm have told me that they are open to the level of experience and salary, as long as the person has solid VAT knowledge and has done some advisory work previously. Therefore, their salary band is very wide and determined by your experience and qualifications.

The job is a permanent, employed position, but can suit either full time or part time working hours.

To emphasise, this is not a role where completion of VAT returns will be done.

• Operate in a VAT advisory role, working directly with clients and colleagues
• Handling internal and external VAT queries and assignments
• Identifying tax planning opportunities and making recommendations
• Planning and performing VAT consultancy assignments
• Keeping abreast of changes in legislation and advising Directors / Managers and clients accordingly
• Technical research and report writing

• Experience in VAT and some advisory work
• You may hold an accounting or tax qualification or simply be qualified by experience

• Flexible working hours / Hybrid working - some home working available
• Competitive leave package, dependent on experience
• Annual leave trading scheme
• Salary dependant on experience
• Contributory pension scheme
• Health plan cashback scheme
• Permanent health insurance scheme
• Death in Service benefit, upon successful completion of probationary period

This role is totally focused on VAT advisory, not completing VAT returns.

VAT queries can come through on property, land, flat rate or normal VAT rates etc and any situation where there are problems and opportunities in VAT.

Salary wise, this is open-ended as it depends on your experience, but the firm may look from Assistant all the way thought to Manager / Senior Manager grade