The Firm:
A large international accounting and advisory firm with one of the largest professional service networks in the world are looking to appoint an experienced Senior Manager to their Newcastle office to join a team of specialist advisors in all aspects of Indirect tax .
The Brief:
As an Indirect tax professional representing the firm you will provide pragmatic commercial support to clients to improve their day-to-day reporting for indirect tax. This includes improving working capital, reducing errors, reducing costs, advising on complex transactions and ensuring indirect taxes are handled correctly. Furthermore you may also advise how indirect taxes such as value added tax (VAT) impinge on the client’s supply chain and financial and accounting systems.
The Role:
- Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
- Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
- Business development skills - able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients and winning new clients.
- High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
- Overall responsibility of quality of client service
- Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
- Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
- Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day leadership of delivery team
- Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
- Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training international tax professionals
- Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments
Experience Required:
- Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
- Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
- Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
- Significant experience in VAT from a professional services background or in-house team
- ATT / ACA / CA or CTA would be an advantage but are not a requirement
- The role would suit an existing Senior Manager but we are happy to discuss the opportunity with an experienced, ambitious Manager
- Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
Benefits:
Extensive and varied benefits package alongside agile working and an opportunity to forge a long-term career with a leading accountancy practice.