About Eversheds Sutherland

Eversheds Sutherland represents the combination of two firms with a shared culture, values and commitment to client service excellence. We are each known for our commercial awareness and industry knowledge and for providing innovative and tailored solutions for every client. 

As a full service law practice, we act for the public and private sector across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and the US providing legal advice to clients across the Company Commercial, Employment, Labour & Pensions, Litigation and Dispute Management, and Real Estate practices. 

With 74 offices across 35 countries worldwide, we have become one of the largest law practices in the world and a great place to work and develop your career.

The Group

International Operations is fundamental to the success of our organisation, with teams working internationally to provide critical business expertise for our lawyers and our business alike.

We offer fulfilling careers across all areas including Finance, IT, Marketing, HR, Compliance and many more areas. These teams are at the core of our organisation and are key to Eversheds Sutherland’s continued success as a top 10 global law firm. Whether you’re starting your career or an established professional we offer a variety of opportunities that allow you to grow in your chosen career.

We are proud of our culture and the values that guide our behaviour: Collaborative, Creative, Professional, Inclusive, Open

These key five values underpin everything we do they, sit at the heart of our culture, define how we behave, individually and collectively, as we work to deliver on our purpose.

We support the learning and development of all our people at Eversheds Sutherland, engaging you at every stage of your career. Complimented by on the job learning, our formal courses support our people to excel in their role

Our firm continues to grow creating exciting, challenging and diverse career opportunities.

The Team

This role is integral to meeting the firm’s UK partnership, corporate & VAT obligations and providing support to the wider Partner Services & Tax team on strategic projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Partnership/Corporate Tax

• Key point of contact in tax team for wider finance and accounting teams
• Working with Senior Partnership Tax Manager to manage the preparation of UK partnership & corporate tax computations
• Reviewing Partnership Tax Assistant’s computational work
• Arrange other ad hoc UK tax filings
• Arrange quarterly corporation tax payments
  • VAT
• Manage the preparation and submission of group VAT returns
• Assist with the VAT leger reconciliations
• Dealing with audit & HMRC/tax authority VAT queries
• Providing support to the business with VAT queries, including complex billing scenarios
  • R&D
• Working with external R&D advisors and in-house IT/Finance teams to prepare the firm’s annual R&D tax credit claim
  • Other
• Working with Senior Partnership Tax Manager to calculate & manage partners tax reserves
• Dealing with partner queries in respect of tax reserves
• Assistance with calculating the allocation of taxable profits to partners
• Assist with ad hoc projects as they arise
• Line management and active role in development of Partnership Tax Assistant

Skills and Experience

• Experience of working within a professional services background, either within an accounting practice and would like to diversify in law firms or currently working within a law firm
• An understanding of UK tax system
• Advanced use of excel

Diversity and Inclusion

At Eversheds Sutherland, we recognise that having diverse talent across our business brings many benefits, and we are committed to accessing a wide range of views and thinking in all that we do. A culture of inclusion, where each person feels able to be their true self at work and reach their full potential is key. We recognise that bringing together the perspectives of individuals of all backgrounds, life experiences, preferences and beliefs is critical if we are to serve our global client base, people and communities as a leading global legal practice.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to enable participation in the recruitment process, please contact us so that we can discuss how best to assist.

We are open to considering flexible working options for our vacancies. Whilst we are not able to offer flexible working across all of our roles, many of our people work flexibly in some way, and we would encourage you to talk to us about this during the hiring process if you would like to explore further.

We are a LGBT+ inclusive employer and are Stonewall Corporate Champions.