Corporate Tax Manager

The Role

As a Corporate Tax Manager, you will lead the delivery of corporate tax services, managing client portfolios and ensuring compliance with UK tax regulations. You will oversee teams, provide technical advice on complex tax matters, and support tax planning and advisory projects. Your role ensures exceptional client service and contributes to business growth.

Core Skills

Client Focus

Is able to respond to client queries relating to role with minimal input from others

Demonstrates a clear understanding of clients’ business, objectives, challenges and risks sufficient to brief more junior colleagues on assignment and direct work accordingly

Demonstrates a broad understanding of client/customer market and environment and understands the importance of driving new business

Manage flexible working of self and assistants based around client needs and business deadlines

Reviews WIP on a monthly basis to ensure that fees are raised for any work that is completed or at a billable stage and that any doubtful time that may not be recovered is adequately provided, by updating CCH with the required provision

Gain experience of winning new work through input into the preparation of proposals, fee quotes and attending client tenders.

Technical Excellence

Committed to developing knowledge in specialist area and actively communicates/feeds back salient areas to team members

Delivers departmental training and development initiatives

Maintains up to date technical knowledge and awareness of wider business advisory opportunities through technical reading and attending in house departmental seminars, to identify potential issues and emerging opportunities in own and other service areas of the business.

Commitment

Identifies skills and knowledge gaps in department and actively makes suggestions to resolve

Aware of their unconscious bias and ensures this is appropriately considered throughout the candidate selection and recruitment process. Considers whether candidates fit within the wider Azets values, doesn’t solely focus on technical skills

Takes responsibility for actioning departmental development initiatives

Checking on a weekly basis all staff timesheets ensuring work is posted to correct matter and any unusual non chargeable entries challenged

Takes responsibility for the work flow planning of the team

Demonstrates real enthusiasm and motivation at work and engages in team/corporate activities beyond core role

Identifies, agrees, and delivers personally challenging objectives.

Attention to Detail

Demonstrates a commitment to developing team members by assigning challenging work ensuring to give support where appropriate and necessary

Empowers team members to think independently

Is able to make rational and informed decisions even if they may appear unpopular

Is able to process constructive feedback and take ownership of their mistakes and performance.

Decision Making

Confident in taking decisions within agreed remit

Deals with instances of colleagues failing to adopt core values and respect by either addressing or escalating to senior team members when aware

Suggests solutions to problems rather than waiting for suggestions from senior colleagues

Supporting managers in delegated aspects of team management such as sickness reporting and holiday approvals. Participate in the interview and selection process for new junior hires.

Efficiency

Challenges and assesses client fee levels against job recovery trends

Challenges existing approaches and offers alternative suggestions to deliver work more efficiently without compromising of quality of output

Champions new technologies aimed at improving quality and efficiency and takes the lead in departmental implementation of them.

Living Our Values

New to Azets: Shows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours

Existing Colleague: Consistently ‘lives our values’ - demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our company values.

Technical Skills

Review complex corporation tax returns and larger groups

Manage a large portfolio of clients with complex needs, showing evidence of building relationships with the client, good communication skills with the audit and ABAS team to ensure workflow is efficient and within client's expectations

Able to manage conversations with client teams relating to adherence to minimum pricing for CT, develop pricing strategies for clients for review by senior team

Manage ongoing advisory projects on own client portfolio, with support from the partner or director

Demonstrates ability to use the firm’s resources to research complex technical issues, arriving at a conclusion for review by more senior team members

In respect of advisory work, responsible for completion of the tax advisory checklist for sign off by Partner / Director

Attending pre year / completion meetings for clients

Keeps abreast of changes to tax legislation, contributes to regional marketing plans, proactive relationship with clients to ensure changes are communicated effectively

Review final tax packs / transmittal letters for more complex clients, manage more senior review and approve for issue to client

Managing a team of people, delegating appropriately, ensuring team have the required skills and exposure to work

Generating leads with potential new clients and demonstrating ability to secure new work.

Qualifications

Holds a accountancy and/or tax qualification or qualified by experience (e.g. ATT/CTA/ACA/ACCA/CA).

Essential Experience

It is expected that the above core and technical skills will have been developed through study alongside work experience in an accountancy practice.

Job Reference: AZ04676