Tax & Treasury Specialist Reading £45K

Tax & Treasury Specialist | Education Sector

£40,000 to £45,000

Private School | Berkshire

Butter Rose are proud to share that we are working with a prestigious preparatory school on the recruitment of an experienced Tax and Treasury Specialist. These kinds of roles don't come around often, with the feeling of making a difference to young people's lives being highly coveted.

Your work will be centred around Tax & Treasury, but you'll also need a fundamental understanding of budgets / forecasts, management accounts, stat accounts, and transactional finance. Reporting to the Head of Finance and collaborating with the Director of Finance and Operations your primary duties will include but not be limited to:

• Accurate production, and submission to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), of monthly VAT Returns, reconciled to the General Ledger, within HMRC timeframe rules.
• Ensuring that all VAT reclaimable from HMRC is received and reconciled.
• Ensuring that any VAT due to be paid to HMRC is paid on a timely basis in accordance with HMRC rules, and correctly reconciled.
• Submission of Voluntary Disclosures to HMRC, for errors above the threshold for adjustment within the VAT Return.
• Ensuring Voluntary Disclosure reclaims are received or amounts payable to HMRC are paid on a timely basis.
• Administering pro-forma invoices, ensuring valid VAT invoices are received, and duly included in the VAT Return.
• Ensuring VAT/Tax knowledge of themselves and the Head of Finance and Director of Finance and Operations is current and up to date.
• Assisting with VAT advice to the Director of Finance and Operations, where necessary through liaison with the school's appointed VAT Consultants.

They're people-centric employer, and with this in mind we're open candidate who are on the road to qualification (AAT, ATT, CTA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA), or qualified by experience in the areas that matter.

Although term time is predominantly office based, one settled into the role there is flexibility to work remotely on occasion, more so on half term / holidays.

To be considered for the role you must be eligible to work in the UK without restriction. This role is being advertised by Butler Rose (AGY) and managed by Dave Marchant

Butler Rose is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.Butler Rose Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.