A leading Top 5 Accounting firm are recruiting for a VAT Director to join their team in Southampton.
As a VAT Director you will utilise a commercial approach when developing and maintaining client relationships, and you will take the lead on a variety of interesting, often complex advisory projects and technical assignments.
Your responsibilities as a VAT Director will include:
- There will be an expectation that you will take full responsibility for project delivery on your portfolio
- Review of work prepared by more junior members of staff
- Liaise with HMRC
- To ensure assignments are completed within agreed budgets and keep client/Partner informed of changes in scope / overruns and plan staff assignments in order to give an appropriate spread of experience
- Identify risk and technical matters, as well as selling opportunities, to the Partner, whilst exercising judgement within agreed parameters.
- Provide overall support to Partners on client matters and assist Partners in the management and leadership of the group, this will include support at times for the recruitment and management of staff
- A key skill will be the ability to recognise business development opportunities and inform and work with the Partner and the client to develop these when they arise
- Develop contact with clients at senior level and maintain contact with other levels as appropriate to ensure the firm has the confidence of the client
About you:
- A degree level education and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent with demonstrable post qualified experience.
- An interest and experience of delivering the Tax strategic framework with regular involvement with tax planning and complex tax issues.
- Ability to manage the successful delivery of commercially viable and technically excellent advice to a variety of clients involving tax due diligence, structuring, international and other advisory work and including liaising with specialists in other tax teams and overseas offices to manage their input
- Ability to prepare proposals for new work, including researching target client companies and on technical issues to identify new solutions
- Experience of people management.
- Experience of leading large scale or complex projects within own area of expertise.
