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Position Summary:
Our indirect tax professionals provide pragmatic commercial help so clients improve their day-to-day reporting for indirect tax. This includes improving working capital, reducing errors, reducing costs and ensuring indirect taxes are handled correctly. They advise how indirect taxes such as value added tax (VAT) or goods & services tax (GST) impinge on the client’s supply chain and financial and accounting systems.
We are looking for a highly experienced manager to join our team based in London to help drive the VAT practice forward.
Key Responsibilities:
- Overall responsibility of quality of client service
- Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments
- Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
- Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training international tax professionals
- Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
- Business development skills – able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work by proactively managing existing clients and winning new clients.
- Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from
- Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
- Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
- Enthusiastic manager with ability to create, support, sustain and lead effective teams
- High level management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
- Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day leadership of delivery team
Required Education & Experience:
- Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
- Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
- ATT / ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
- Significant experience in VAT Tax from a large accountancy or in-house team
- 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