Job Description

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Birmingham, Hong Kong, Leeds, Limassol, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Monaco, Newcastle, Piraeus and Singapore. With more than 1000 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.

Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.

Job role:

Tax Business Analyst / Tax Accountant

Hours

Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:00 (35 hours per week) Happy to talk flexible working

Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2024 and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

Team:

Finance - Management Information

Location:

Liverpool

Benefits:

At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.

Here are some examples of what we offer:

Annual leave starting at 25 days Annual bonus scheme Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days Optional private medical insurance via BUPA Annual fitness allowance Flexible pension scheme ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice Electric or hybrid vehicle lease scheme Medicash EAP with access to counselling Enhanced family leave policies Access to confidential, expert support via Fertifa in relation to reproductive health and wellbeing Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year via Bright Horizons. Life assurance Group income protection Annual travel season ticket loan Hybrid working and dress for your day policy Bespoke training and development opportunities Financial contribution towards home working equipment

Role overview

This role will involve being a key player in the finance team and is responsible for assisting the Tax Business Partner in managing the tax affairs of the Partnership and the Partners, both in the UK and Internationally.

Key responsibilities:

Reporting to the Tax Business Partner, this role is will support in managing the tax affairs of the LLP, and it associated LLPs, branches and subsidiaries. This role will assist the Tax Business Partner to varying degrees across all of the following:

Assistance in the preparation of annual income tax computations, including capital allowance calculations. Helping to manage the corporation tax affairs of our service company and ensuring payment of quarterly tax payments and dividend payments to the LLP Dealing with overseas aspects of our international entities, calculating double tax relief claims to be made via UK Tax Returns. Consideration of transfer pricing issues and profit repatriation. Liaising with the management accountants. Maintaining detailed income tax provisions for all partners, including deferred income tax provisions where appropriate. Acting as tax agent for c.150 UK partners, preparing and submitting Tax Returns on their behalf and liaising with HMRC. Review and varying levels of involvement in the same process for our International Partners. Dealing with partner queries regarding their own tax affairs and providing mortgage references when required. Calculation and payment of composite income tax payments in January and July each year and dealing with one-off payments where necessary. Liaising with other agents when required. Calculation of partner monthly drawings and ensuring these are paid on a timely basis each month. Advising partners and providing personal illustrations. Calculation of partner current accounts and distribution of annual statements. Dealing partner profit distributions ensuring accurate and timely payment. Calculation of partner capital requirements on HD agreed basis. Regular monitoring to ensure compliant with HMRC rules. Assisting our HR team with partner recruitment by providing drawings illustrations and capital calculations. Advising newly recruited/promoted partners on financial aspects of being a partner at HD. Providing one-to-one advice or presenting at partner induction sessions. Advising on partners leaving or retiring from the LLP. Preparation of Settlement schedules and advising re tax implication of their departure. Liaising with payroll and HR on employment tax issues. Providing future tax payment forecasts to assist with cashflow calculations, taking account of changes in legislation e.g. Basis Period Reform Advising on ad-hoc queries such as partner/employee mobility Maintaining and updating the Tax Risk Register to ensure we are fully compliant. Obtaining Certificates of Residence from HMRC when required and providing the relevant residence forms for international clients. Keeping up to date with upcoming changes in tax legislation and advising the FD as appropriate. Maintaining relationships with external advisors.

What are we looking for:

Important criteria:

Excellent knowledge of partnership and personal tax issues, including international issues Strong Excel spreadsheet knowledge including use of formulas (eg SUMIF, VLOOKUP and IF statements). Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, liaising directly with senior people in the LLP, partners, colleagues and HMRC. Willingness to self-develop taxation knowledge and keep up to date with latest taxation issues impacting upon the legal profession. Excellent organisation skills Experience using commercial tax software (ideally digita) although training will be provided if familiar with a similar platform.
It would be beneficial for you to have some of the following:

Experienced and Qualified Tax Accountant - CTA or ATT Previous experience with a law firm or similar professional services environment
If you don't meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to apply and if successful, we can help you develop along the way.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.

We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.

Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.

Disability Support

We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.

Values

Trust - Respect - Innovation - Collaboration At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx. All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks. Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.