Location – UK National
Our client’s Regional Financial Services Tax Team is a small, friendly and supportive team with staff members based around the country (Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol). The team are used to working with each other remotely for much of the time and therefore we are open to applicants based anywhere in the UK.
Our client’s Tax practice is a dynamic, successful and growing area of their business. A constantly changing and increasingly high-profile field, Tax can offer a surprisingly broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.
The Regional Financial Services Tax team provides tax advice, compliance and audit support work to a wide range of banking, lending, wealth management, mutual, fintech and other financial services clients. The majority of the team’s client portfolio relates to challenger banking and lending organisations but being a regional team they do have clients across the financial services spectrum.
Corporate Tax Advisors are often the main relationship holders for Tax and Legal, and work closely with other areas of the tax practice as well as Deal Advisory, Risk Consulting, Management Consulting and Audit, acting as a springboard for sales in many other areas of Tax and Legal and the rest of the firm.
The team focuses on the provision of high quality commercial advice to clients. Their approach has as its foundation a thorough understanding of clients’ business strategy as well as the industries in which they operate. This enables the team to work in partnership with them and to provide tailored and robust tax solutions to support their corporate goals. The work focuses on corporate tax advisory services, and includes building long-lasting client relationships and coordination of all tax services to clients.
The role
Our client is looking for a Senior Manager to help them manage their existing portfolio of clients and to help them win additional work in the Regional Financial Services marketplace.
The work required by the role would be varied and dynamic and requires a decent level of UK corporate tax knowledge and experience. The role will also require the candidate to be able to work as part of a team both with more senior and more junior staff. Ideally the candidate would have knowledge and experience of financial services however that is not essential and we would consider suitably qualified candidates who do not have financial services experience as training can be given as needed.
The role is extremely flexible and we are open to full time or part time working. Our client is also open to home working, flexible working or a mix of both.
Key responsibilities
- Developing and leading relationships across a portfolio of clients.
- Managing and developing teams to ensure the high-quality delivery of a range of projects to meet clients’ needs, from corporation tax advice to cross-functional advisory projects, as well as supporting corporation tax compliance/reporting and audit teams where tax issues are more complex.
- Ensuring that client work is managed and delivered effectively, maintaining good financial discipline.
- Understanding the client’s business and proactively identifying areas for the sell-on of additional tax and other services.
- Building and maintaining internal relationships across the tax practice as well with non-tax colleagues and the network of member firms.
- Being involved in business development activity and working closely with the wider practice
- Coaching and mentoring more junior team members, including the opportunity to undertake performance management responsibilities if desired.
- Carrying out detailed technical research to support particular projects or queries.
- As a senior manager you will work closely with directors and partners on a wide range of projects and a portfolio of clients.
Skills and attributes
Our client is looking for people who are keen to work in an environment that offers plenty of opportunities for personal and professional development. Whilst working with the firm you will broaden your project management and technical skills and your commercial acumen. The person best suited to a role is someone who is bright, committed and enjoys working as part of a team.
- CTA and/or ACA/CA and/or equivalent legal/HMRC/international qualification is essential.
- History of developing and maintaining strong external and internal client relationships.
- Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.
- UK corporate tax knowledge and experience is essential plus an awareness of broader tax, and accounting areas. Ideally the candidate would have knowledge/experience of financial services however that is not essential and training on financial services specific areas can be given as needed.
- Strong analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.
- Ability to lead and drive projects forward, meeting deadlines and managing the financial impacts.
- Ability to build teams, develop, coach and lead staff.
- The flexibility to adapt to the ever-changing demands brought about by tax, regulatory and business changes.
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