Indirect Tax Manager

• Be responsible for the scoping, delivery and billing of client work. Delivering high quality technical advice, working with a diverse range of clients
• Ensure that junior staff are guided in researching and producing work that meets the firm’s commitment to quality, whilst also supporting the Directors and Partners
• Provide technically accurate advice on a range of Indirect Tax matters, supporting your decisions with appropriate knowledge of legislation, case law, and technical analysis
• Be adept at business writing, able to tailor your style depending on the recipient. You will understand complicated technical issues and be able to explain them to stakeholders who may have limited tax knowledge
• Produce technical work which requires minimal review and conveys key points to clients and stakeholders
• Review the work of other members of the team
• Be compliant with the firm’s risk management processes for clients starting from initial take on to completion of assignments
• Take responsibility for financial hygiene including billing, gross margin, utilisation, WIP management

Benefits

• Income protection
• Matched pension
• Life cover
• Private medical, including anytime access to Doctor@Hand and Stronger Minds
• Professional subscriptions

• It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don’t worry if you don’t tick every box, we’ll help you develop along the way
• Joining us as an Indirect Tax Associate Director or Manager the minimum criteria you’ll need is experience of VAT / Indirect Taxes, perhaps from an advisory or in-house environment
• You’d probably also hold a relevant tax qualification (CTA / ATT)
• Excellent inter-personal skills and be able to demonstrate that you are able to forge long standing business relationships
• Comfortable when working as part of a mixed discipline team to take the lead and drive forward a project to its conclusion
• Experience of advising on complex technical indirect tax matters across a range of VAT areas and sectors
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills required because you will be working with a number of different colleagues at any given time on work for a great many different clients and targets
• Experience of managing a large and varied portfolio of indirect / VAT tax clients