Senior Tax Manager, Big 4, Cambridge

Senior Tax Manager (Business) job within Big 4 firm in Cambridge

Hay are recruiting for a Senior Tax Manager for one of the Big 4 firms in Cambridge.

The business tax professionals within this global firm help businesses meet complex demands for UK tax reporting, compliance, planning, strategy and controversy. By integrating deep technical and industry knowledge with established methodologies, they work with a wide range of businesses and corporates to help them develop and implement effective, practical and sustainable tax strategies. Their business tax advisory professionals help clients through the challenges of planning, financial accounting, tax compliance and maintaining effective relationships with the tax authorities. They work with organisations and individuals to structure transactions and operations in a tax-effective manner. This includes helping clients to mitigate tax risk, comply effectively with tax laws and take into account the prospect of change.

Key responsibilities in the role of Senior Tax Manager:

* Build and maintain relationships with clients, winning work proactively and contributing to 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
* 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

Skills and Experience required for the role of Senior Tax Manager

* Significant experience in Corporate Tax from a large accountancy or law firm
* Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
* Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
* 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
* Enthusiastic team player with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams
* Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff
* Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day leadership of delivery team
* Change orientated with flexible approach
* Degree qualified
* ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course / Law qualification / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification.

Please apply on line of contact Cara Whyte at Hays for more details.

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