Not-For-Profit Tax Assistant Manager / Manager, Mazars, Birmingham

As an Assistant Manager/Manager within the Birmingham office your role will be advisory focussed. You will work closely with the Partner, Director and Senior Manager team to deliver a high quality tax service to not-for-profit (“NFP”) clients at all times, whilst building up and sharing your own knowledge and expertise across all taxes associated with not-for-profit businesses (including corporation tax, income tax, capital gains tax and stamp duty). Your primary focus will be to support the NFP senior manager on delivering high quality tax advice, whilst also having a role in managing existing client relationships, building relationships with other Mazars NFP specialists within and outside of tax and actively pursuing new opportunities, thus helping to generate advisory work from clients.

Clients

The Birmingham Centre of Excellence for NFP tax actively advises over 100 clients and is growing as it becomes the national ‘go to’ point in the firm for tax support for NFP clients. You will assist the NFP senior manager in providing advice to and managing relationships with existing clients. You will also undertake profile building activities within the firm to build up relationships with non-tax and non-NFP colleagues so that they refer clients and opportunities to the Centre of Excellence. The firm also runs several client seminars and training sessions you will attend in order to build relationships whilst developing your technical knowledge.

Job Role

• Working with more senior members of the advisory team to develop your NFP tax advisory knowledge and capabilities;
• Researching new and existing legislation, including providing technical analysis on the impact that this may have on clients;
• Preparing tax advisory letters, proposals, memos and reports for review and reviewing drafts prepared by more junior members of the team;
• Drafting statutory and non-statutory clearances in respect of transactional work, and actively liaising with HMRC;
• Liaising with clients and colleagues throughout advisory engagements;
• Helping develop the business and the seek new opportunities both within Mazars and externally by creating a network of contacts and referrers of work;
• Managing WIP and fees;
• Acting as a mentor to more junior members of the team;
• Maintaining an up-to-date technical knowledge of personal tax and business tax matters.

Person Specification

• Corporation tax focus, with a strong technical knowledge from a corporate tax background;
• Experience in NFP tax would be preferred but not necessary, as training and personal development will be provided.
• CTA qualified (or in the process of attaining);
• Ability to explain tax rules to clients with all levels of background knowledge;
• Strong client handling skills and the ability to develop good relationships with clients and other professionals;
• The individual would be expected to delegate efficiently, review work and have the ability to encourage and foster development of the more junior members of the team;
• Equally the individual will need to be able to work collaboratively with more senior members of the advisory team and other teams within the firm in delivering advisory projects;
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written;
• Adaptable and organised with a commercial approach;
• Ability and/or willingness to research complex technical issues;
• Ability to exercise judgement;
• Ability to help generate creative solutions to problems;
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of risk management issues;
• Demonstrates business development skills and has a track record of identifying opportunities;
• Seeks to progress their career within the tax profession in a specialised but highly sought-after advisory environment.