We are looking for a highly experienced manager to join our team based in Birmingham to help drive the VAT practice forward.
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.
Your people responsibilities:
* Enthusiastic manager with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams
* 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
Your client responsibilities:
* 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
Contribute to successfully extracting maximum value for both the company and clients from the tax services delivered whilst managing risk appropriately for both client and the firm
Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.