Tax Advisor

What the role involves

• Advise on personal and corporate tax position, including planning opportunities
• Prepare and review tax returns and supporting computations
• Keep up to date with legislative change and advise clients proactively
• Represent clients in disputes and manage correspondence with authorities
• Ensure advice is documented, defensible and compliant with professional standards

Core skills

• Tax Legislation & Interpretation (level 4/5)
• Tax Return Preparation & Computation (level 4/5)
• Tax Planning Strategies (level 4/5)
• Payroll & Employment Taxation (level 3/5)
• Client Advisory & Communication (level 4/5)
• Audit & Dispute Representation (level 3/5)

Preferred skills

• International Tax (Transfer Pricing)
• Trust & Estate Tax
• Advanced Excel / Spreadsheet Modelling

Tools

Experience expected

2-5 years in tax compliance, advisory or accounting

Projects that prove the role

• Restructuring that produced a defensible, documented tax outcome
• Compliance cleanup resolving years of filing backlog
• Advisory engagement that changed a client’s effective tax rate

Evidence to collect

• A computation or memo with assumptions clearly stated
• A client advisory example with the reasoning and the outcome
• Evidence of a clean review or audit result

What the interview covers

• A tax position you were willing to defend publicly
• A change in law that affected clients you advise
• Finding the error in a client’s prior filing
• Balancing commercial advice with compliance risk

How the role progresses

• Tax Associate
• Tax Advisor
• Senior Advisor
• Tax Manager
• Tax Director / Partner

Certifications that carry weight

• CTA / CTAB
• CPA (US)
• Chartered Accountant (ACCA/CIMA)
• IRS Enrolled Agent
• STEP / ADIT

Related roles

• Accountant
• audit-assistant
• financial-planner
• compliance-analyst

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