Tax Specialist (Personal Tax) 6 month FTC

Job title: Tax Specialist (Personal Tax)

Location: Bath

Contract type: 6 month FTC

Salary: circa £40K depending on experience, plus excellent benefits

Founded in 2006, Ascentric provides a secure online investment platform for use by financial advisers, distributors, discretionary fund managers and product providers. By bringing a client’s investments together in one place, it helps advisers manage the portfolio more easily and effectively. The platform forms a core part of Royal London’s Platform Services (RLPS) business.

We’re looking for an experienced Tax Specialist to support a project of tax calculation rectifications for a range of clients. The work will cover various aspects of Personal, Income and Capital Gains Taxes, and include fund portfolios of High Net Worth clients.

The project is led by our consultancy partner and the Royal London Group Tax function, and has a well-structured approach to data gathering and calculations. You will be working in a small team in our office in the heart of Bath, and have the support required to efficiently resolve a high volume of often fairly complex calculations.

Although the project has a 6 month lifespan, this role will provide experience and exposure which may lead to opportunities to continue your career at RLPS. We are open to discussing flexible working options, including occasional remote working once trained and embedded.

What you will be doing

Personal Tax Calculations, covering various aspects of Personal, Income and Capital Gains Taxes

What we’re looking for

• Experience of relevant areas of tax, and associated legislation
• Likely to be qualified or part qualified (ATT, ACA, ACCA, CTA)
• PC Skills (proficient in use of Word and Excel)
• Knowledge of accounting and tax system procedures, understanding of tax accounting
• Awareness of Risk principles

Skills that will help you in the role

• Able to work to a defined process methodology
• Attention to detail

What we offer

• We've always been proud to reward employees by offering a number of benefits
  such as Pensions and Protection, Performance and role-related benefits, Lifestyle and Wellbeing 
• Our culture comes from within, or to put it another way, it comes from our people. It’s what makes Royal London a great place to work.
• Our People Promise is something we live up to every day. We know we can rely on you, and you can expect plenty from us in return.
• Glassdoor have ranked as among the best places to work and this year we entered the top 10 

We are an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills – whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

In fact, the first pillar of our People Promise is designed to make sure you 'work somewhere inclusive'. We want to live up to this promise; it’s good for our people and good for our customers too, because our workforce should reflect our communities.