Attention to Detail

• Performs review of key areas of the assignment ensuring working papers and conclusions reached are presented well and justified.
• Takes pride in own work and takes personal responsibility for ensuring that the final product is accurate or high quality and presented well.

Key Accountabilities

Decision Making

• Confident in taking decisions within agreed remit.
• Deals with instances of colleagues failing to adopt core values and respect by either addressing or escalating to senior team members when aware.
• Suggests solutions to problems rather than waiting for suggestions from senior colleagues.
• Supporting managers in delegated aspects of team management such as sickness reporting and holiday approvals.
• Participate in the interview and selection process for new junior hires.

Efficiency

• Communicates effectively when scope or timescales need to change.
• Review work in progress (WIP) under own control and raise draft fees for approval considering stage of completion and work undertaken.
• Delivers work within agreed scope and timescales, meeting deadlines efficiently achieving desired recovery rates.

Living Our Values

• New to Azets: Shows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours.
• Existing Colleague: Consistently ‘lives our values’ - demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our company values.
• Is a role model for our company values, is seen as an ‘Ambassador' who leads by example.

Technical Skills

• Can advise clients of different corporation tax rates and bandings and apply to knowledge of company.
• Take ownership of deadlines under own portfolio.
• Able to review a transmittal letter prepared by a colleague.
• Able to provide support to a colleague in preparing a transmittal letter.
• To hold an efficient but effective planning discussion ahead of commencement and keep track of progress of budget.
• Able to explain variances in accounts demonstrating commercial awareness and client knowledge.
• Able to identify areas that should be brought to manager and partner attention accurately explaining in A25.
• Ensures all review points are addressed prior to partner review.
• Can identify when technical support is required from tax service, clearly communicating on the issue and agreeing way forward.
• Is able to provide a high-level concept explanation to clients on a broad range of subjects such as R&D relief, group loss relief and onward refer to Partner.
• Is able to prepare a medium-size set of accounts for review.
• Able to review a non-complex VAT return.
• Understands the limit of own knowledge and when to seek support from VAT service line.
• Can perform bank covenant testing.
• Able to prepare medium-risk tax returns consistently without error.
• Able to prepare medium-risk tax returns without error.
• Able to advise on when updates are required to Companies House and rules surrounding issues such as change of name, change of accounting reference date, appointment of director, etc.

Qualifications

• Holds an accountancy qualification or qualified by experience (e.g., ACA/ACCA/CA).

Essential Experience

• It is expected that the above core and technical skills will have been developed through study alongside work experience in an accountancy practice.