Tax Accountant

London Fire Brigade, one of our largest public sector organisations based in London are looking to recruit Tax Accountant to join their finance team on a 3-month contract with a view to extend. The role is full time, Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week with hybrid work available (3 days work from home) and the office is based near London Bridge.

Pay: £461.94 per day PAYE or £596.13 per day Umbrella (Inside IR35)

Job Purpose:

A legacy issue where a law was changed to calculate P11Ds but LFB’s process/policy did not change, which means issues around people’s tax bills being incorrect.

The Tax accountant is therefore needed to work back through 2019,2020,2021,2022 at where the errors are and to correct them, and identify why it went wrong, what control was in place, what could have been done better and how to eliminate similar happening in future.

Looking at the corporate error as a whole was not only a finance error. HR should have been involved in the process too. HR are now looking into preparing a policy around this and highlight which part of the policy sits with which department and where hand offs should be, so all is clearer for future.

Requirements and skills:

• Understand tax regime and tax issues – leased car P11D Benefit in Kind (BIK) regime is desirable
• Excellent communication skills and confident telling the story to senior stakeholders, exactly how things are. E.g what went wrong, and this is what we are doing now etc…
• Part-Qualified or Qualified accountant.
• Financial analytical skills, attention to details.
• Strategic critical thinker.
• People relationship and change management.
• Attend meetings with senior stakeholders, be confident and understands where things went wrong and how to correct it.
• High level senior person with a strategic background.
• Good analytical skills.
• If they have previous knowledge and background in P11D BIK then the person will be able to pick it up and turn it around quickly.
• Desirable to come from a public sector background as this is on local government level.

Due to the nature of the role, applicants must have knowledge and background in P11D BIK to be able to carry out the role. If you have the required experience and skill set apply now for immediate consideration.