Expatriate/Global Mobility Associate or Assistant Manager

at  James Cowper Kreston

James Cowper Kreston offers a superb environment in which to grow and advance your career. This is an exciting opportunity to join their well-respected Expat tax team in their Reading office.
This role requires a tax professional with previous expat tax experience with good understanding of global mobility, who is prepared to manage ongoing compliance work but more importantly take on and run with a wide range of advisory projects for a variety of clients – both corporates and individuals. Support and guidance will be given to the successful candidate, who should clearly demonstrate their enthusiasm for a new challenge!
This is a fantastic opportunity for the successful individual to join our well-regarded and forward-thinking firm in a mixed compliance and advisory role, where there will be genuine scope for career development.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• Able to build long term relationships with clients
• Have at least 2 years Expatriate tax experience with excellent technical knowledge of UK income and capital taxation
• Ideally ready to start managing a portfolio of clients.

• Advising corporates on assignment moves including UK tax and social security implications, impact on UK payroll, contacting overseas offices to manage the host country implications.
• Conducting arrival and departure briefings for individuals leaving or coming to the UK. This will include the tax implications of personal income and gains as well as corporate structures and temporary non-resident rules.
• Managing the income tax return process for a portfolio of clients, including initial tax return review.
• Highlighting issues from tax return information which may require additional advice (for example: expats coming up to the remittance basis charge date, non-resident landlord scheme applications)
• Dealing with ad hoc queries from clients on a variety of issues such as termination payments, EIS investments, life insurance policies and partial surrenders, etc.
• Managing other requests such as non-resident capital gains tax returns, A1 applications, certificates of residence.
• Liaising with JC Payroll (our payroll bureau) on expatriate matters such as modified payrolls, certificates of coverage, net of credit tax schemes, short term business visitor arrangements.
• Technical research and preparation of letters/reports
• Dealing with HMRC enquiries and disclosures and all related work
• Reviewing work in progress and raising fees as appropriate on a timely basis