Corporate Tax Director in London - Proactive Solutions Group Ltd

Corporate Tax Director
Reports to: Tax Partner
Corporate Tax Director Key Purpose
Responsibility for a well-managed portfolio of clients across a range of industry sectors, including sole-traders, partnerships, and limited companies. This role will be reporting directly to the Partners of the Firm, and you will have the opportunity to take a lead role in developing the portfolio. You will be responsible for the financial management of the portfolio to include, recovery rates, billing, debt and WIP management and be able to provide a high level of technical advice and application to our clients.
Corporate Tax Director Key Objectives

Managing the tax compliance work on a client portfolio.
Reviewing work of more junior staff.
Dealing with HMRC correspondence including enquiries.
Taking a senior role in developing client relationship, through conversations and meetings as well as delivering technical advice.
Attending client meetings & creating a client relationship built on trust and confidence in your ability, ensuring clients naturally default to you.
Spotting and acting on opportunities to enhance the experience of our clients. Helping their clients to thrive by proactively dealing with client queries, building strong commercial relationships, and considering their clients holistic financial needs.
Leading the day-to-day management of a productive and effective department, including assigning work to staff members based on their knowledge and capabilities and helping with the development of junior members of the team.
Providing high level technical advice to less experienced members of the management team.
To assist with tax planning projects including being self-sufficient on certain substantial tax planning projects.
To build and maintain relationships with work referrers in order to bring in work.
To present at internal and external seminars and webinars.
To generate marketing initiatives.
To provide technical leadership on specific areas of tax knowledge and develop technical specialisms.
To run and present at internal training meetings.
To undertake appraisals of more junior staff.
To manage the financial implications of client work including recoveries, identification of additional work to be billed for and selling this to clients, to identify and chase late payment of fees.
To undertake tasks within the tax related Forensic assignments including report drafting which are capable of being finalised with minimal review.
Being confident in the use of the latest software & being able to discuss with & recommend to clients.
Understanding and adhering to our internal software and procedures.
Role model and promote and ensure best practice is followed for all compliance matters.
Attendance at networking events and identifying opportunities to sell additional services to existing clients & prospective new clients.
Proactively contribute or lead internal projects that may not be directly related to the portfolio management.
To effectively manage the financial aspects of the portfolio.
To have a collaborative approach with your department and the rest of the firm.

Corporate Tax Director Key Skills & Competencies

A high degree of personal motivation, organisational skills, and the ability to manage your own workload
Flexibility and approachability under pressure
You must be proactive, tenacious and show initiative at all times
Excellent attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy
The ability to communicate confidently, clearly, and effectively at all levels including ensuring the partner is aware of any client issues
The ability to work closely with other members of the team and management team
A learning mind-set with the ability to receive feedback to implement corrective advice ensuring achievement of key objectives and service delivery to clients
A high level of professionalism to deliver client service excellence
The ability to build excellent relationships with all colleagues through role model behaviour in line with the Firm's culture and strategic objectives
The ability to multitask and meet deadlines when required
Effective delegation and time management
To understand when it is necessary to escalate either technical or client experience issues to the partner or support specialists
A developing sense of commercial acumen
A developing ability to promote the work of the team within the firm and outside it
An emerging ability to develop strong relationships with referrers

Corporate Tax Director Key Knowledge & Behaviours

Planning and organisation
Self-motivation
Flexibility and adaptability
Excellent client service
Familiarity with IT systems
Familiarity and an understanding of the relevant statutory compliance issues affecting the Firm including, GDPR, Money Laundering and the Health and Safety at Work Act
Professional, personable, presentable, and punctual
Good technical knowledge of accounts preparation and tax compliance
Familiarisation with personal and business tax regulations, plus VAT and PAYE
Supervisory experience of accounts staff
Full driving licence, plus unrestricted access to a car
Organised, accurate, and able to plan the use of time efficiently
Strong interpersonal skills in dealing with both clients, team members and colleagues
Excellent communication skills

Corporate Tax Director Qualifications

CTA qualified.
Preferred ACA / ACCA qualified.

The Corporate Tax Director salary is £80-110k + benefits
Proactive People is an employment agency and employment business

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