VAT Associate Director

A leading Top 10 accounting practice is currently recruiting for a VAT Associate Director to join their Indirect Tax team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the UKs leading Indirect Tax teams in a Top 10 Practice. The Tax team supports and advises businesses of various sizes and sectors with complex VAT issues.

As an Associate Director you will:

• Join a friendly, diverse team with a leading presence in Indirect Tax and VAT in the UK.
• Be responsible for the scoping, delivery and billing of client work. You will be required to be compliant with the firm's risk management processes for clients starting from initial take on to completion of assignments.
• Ensure that more junior staff are guided in researching and producing work that meets the firm's commitment to quality, whilst also supporting the Directors and Partners.
• Provide technically accurate advice on a range of VAT matters, supporting your decisions with appropriate knowledge of legislation, case law, and technical analysis.
• You will be adept at business writing, able to tailor your style depending on the recipient. You will understand complicated technical issues and be able to explain them to stakeholders who may have limited tax knowledge.
• You will be proficient at using Microsoft Excel to analyse and understand data.
• Produce technical work which requires minimal review and conveys key points to clients and stakeholders.

Knowing you're right for them:

• Prior experience of Indirect/VAT taxes, either from an accountancy, advisory or in-house environment.
• Experience of managing a large and varied portfolio of indirect tax clients.
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills required because you will be working with a number of different colleagues at any given time on work for a great many different clients and targets.
• Excellent inter-personal skills and be able to demonstrate that you are able to forge long standing business relationships
• Comfortable when working as part of a mixed discipline team to take the lead and driving forward a project to its conclusion
• Experience of advising on complex technical indirect tax matters would be beneficial, especially applying current UK tax law.