Reports To: Firm Partners

Department: Tax

Hours: 8.30am to 5.30pm Mon to Thurs & 8.30am to 2.30pm on Fridays (flexible start and finish time)

Salary: Competitive with company bonus

Contract Type: Permanent

 

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead the delivery of high-quality commercial tax advice and service to clients
  • Bring business knowledge, innovation and insight to create value for clients and the firm.
  • Deliver tax insights that help business leaders to make confident business decisions
  • Advise clients on business structuring, mergers and acquisitions, cross border expansion, financing, tax audits etc
  • Produce reports and presentations for clients
  • Engage with Revenue on client matters 
  • Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team 
  • Advise on all tax matters for clients across all tax heads.
  • Keeping up to date with all tax issues, changes etc.
  • Ensuring tax compliance across a range of international clients.
  • Involvement in business development and creating new wins for the business.
  • Assist in the billings of clients.
  • Build a strong team and support junior members of staff and help them develop

 

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

  • Meeting potential new clients;
  • Development of “tax products” for clients.
  • Review of client files to identify taxation issues and opportunities.
  • Meeting fee targets.
  • Assisting with developing firm’s image by the provisional of technical articles on Tax issues for internal and external publications.

 

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

·        Relevant tax qualification

·        5+ years general tax/accounting practice experience

·        An in-depth knowledge of Accounting and Tax Standards

·        Strong experience working across all tax heads.

·        Experience of operational supervision of assignments and managing of client relationships

·        Strong technical capabilities from managing and delivering complex tax projects

·        Enthusiastic team player and manager with a passion to coach and encourage others to achieve their potential.

·        Sage

·        Taxpro

·        ROS

·        Excel (Advanced preferable)

·        DRIVE (Practice Management and client database)

·        Virtual Cabinet (Document Management System)

·        Microsoft Suite

 

CANDIDATE ATTRIBUTES

The ideal candidate must possess the following attributes to be successful in this busy role:

  • Highly organised
  • Relationship management - ability to read situations and modify behaviour to build quality and diverse relationships.
  • Creative - develop new ideas and propose innovative solutions to problems.
  • Leadership - demonstrate strong commitment and experience to developing yourself, your team members, your clients and the business.
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong initiative
  • Confident in their own abilities
  • Calm and resilient