This is a highly successful consultancy, one of few to experience substantial growth in the last performance year. Its’ niche skills are in the highly lucrative UK/US market, offering high level consultancy and advisory services to the wealthy US City workers (high net worth and ‘ultra’ high net worth financial services individuals) and OMBs.
The position is for a UK/US dual handling tax manager to work in the Business Advisory Group with focus on owner managed businesses and entrepreneurial individuals (major constituents of the client base of the group).
Key elements of the role:
- To manage a portfolio of clients with a focus on entrepreneurial individuals and owner managed businesses.
- To take full responsibility for the US & UK tax compliance and consultancy requirements of the client portfolio. This will include manager level reviews of the relevant tax returns, as well as advising clients on tax issues such as setting up a new venture, choice of entity, and extracting funds from a business.
- Appropriate professional networking and developing new clients, including handling initial contact and correspondence with potential new clients.
- To work as part of the existing management team of the Business Advisory Group to grow and develop this core part of firm’s business.
- To manage junior and senior staff, and take an active role in their training and development.
- To take responsibility for the financial aspects of your client portfolio including billing and managing aged debt, with support from the firm’s finance department.
Requirements:
- Comprehensive UK and US personal tax knowledge including an understanding of the interaction between the tax law of both jurisdictions.
- Experience of the US tax treatment of foreign corporations and partnerships including a good understanding of PFICs and CFCs.
- Understanding of the check-the-box regime.
- Comprehensive experience of reviewing forms 5471, 8865, 8858 and 8621.
- Experience of reviewing US and UK tax reporting of interests in partnerships.
- Experience of reviewing US and UK sole proprietor tax reporting.
- Understanding of UK accounting principles and corporation tax.
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