A leading Big 4 accountancy practice is seeking an experienced Tax Director to join its Corporate Tax team. This is a senior leadership position combining client advisory, team leadership and business development, with clear progression towards Partner.
This role sits within a high-performing advisory practice supporting Our clients include UK headquartered businesses and inbound groups across a range of sectors. The team provides strategic tax advice with a focus on tax reporting and audit. The work in the AARTS (audit and accounting related tax services) team includes supporting clients with their tax provisioning as part of their annual or interim tax reporting requirements. This includes working with teams undertaking associated tax advisory and BEPS Pillar 2 projects as needed, supporting clients through their annual compliance cycle. The successful candidate may also input and lead related transformation and BEPS Pillar 2 provisioning projects.
The Role
The successful candidate will be able to build strong relationships, develop junior staff, provide excellent client service and identify business development opportunities. The candidate must have a proven track record of strong market presence, spotting opportunities and conversion into wins.
Responsibilities:
- Be market facing with allocated clients and target organisations, particularly in the fast growth tech and entrepreneurial sectors
- Be actively involved with the targeting of new client acquisitions by working with wider tax and non-tax teams.
- Be actively involved with managing and tracking target activities and business development initiatives
- Liaising with the client service team and with colleagues in other tax disciplines to provide a co-ordinated service to the client including managing and delivering tax compliance services
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients and identifying leads for new work
- Ensuring that clients are kept up to date on developments within the corporate tax world that may affect their businesses
- Hold conversations with stakeholders in the markets and be capable of introducing relevant specialists from across the firm
- Lead by example with client relationships, technical quality and service delivery
- Actively promote team and personal profile to internal networks in order to promote collaboration and increase internal leads
- Being involved in business development and proposal activity which includes attending various networking events
- Managing our engagement quality and risk processes and client financials
- Managing teams, coaching and developing staff
The Individual:
- Strong understanding of tax accounting concepts under IFRS, UK GAAP (knowledge of US GAAP also desirable).
- Successful track record of new business origination within tax reporting projects through both internal and external activities
- Excellent commercially
- Display technical strength in our specialist markets above
- Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude that translates across the team
- Inspirational leader
- Displays an inclusive, collaborative approach and operates in an inspirational & respectful manner with colleagues, clients and the wider community
- Brings insight and effectively applies knowledge to business and client problems
- Communicates with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent and clear
- Qualified CTA or ACA/CA or equivalent
- Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills
