Corporate Tax Director - Morgan McKinley : Job Details

A Top 10 professional services group are seeking a Corporate Tax Director to join their expanding team in Central London.

As a Corporate Tax Director you will be driving forward the delivery of tax advice, including writing reports and leading discussions with prospective and existing clients, and you'll oversee a team of junior staff members.

Purpose of role:

• With the support of the Head of Department and other staff, responsibility for developing relationships and new business opportunities to provide a range of tax and other services to.
• Overall responsibility and accountability for a group of clients, with excellent technical expertise in your field.
• Skilled at leading and managing the relationship with clients, with the aim of developing new business from your current client base and beyond.
• Responsibility for encouraging and developing, associate directors and other staff members.
• Ensuring excellent client service whilst minimising conduct risk.
• Contributing to the management of your department and/or office if relevant.

Key responsibilities:

Client Advice

• Able to provide suitable strategic and technical advice and guidance to clients with regard to their tax affairs.
• Understand and be able to evaluate the client's situation and tailor the advice according to their specific needs providing clear and technically accurate documentation and key transaction documents.
• Potentially have or be able to build a sector specialism.
• Understand and be able to evaluate the impact of market and general economic indicators and identify any necessary changes to proposed tax advice.
• Able to provide support to clients in their negotiations, liaising with other advisers, co-ordinating their activities where necessary and anticipating and suggesting appropriate solutions to any challenges arising.
• Able to oversee the reports and advice given by the team and review, edit and authorise key documents.

Client Liaison

• Able to structure and lead client meetings ensuring that information given is up to date, clear and not misleading and meets the client's needs.
• All dealings with clients are conducted professionally and their requests are dealt with in a timely and effective manner.
• Correspondence and reporting is clear and not misleading, technically accurate and meets client's needs.

Growing the Business

• Contribute to business strategy where relevant to help ensure that decisions put the client first and are commercially viable.
• Promote cross-selling within the group.
• Build and cultivate relationships with clients and potential clients of the group.

Quality Control, Compliance and Risk Management

• Ensure compliance with the group's internal procedures so as not to expose the group to unacceptable levels of risk.
• Ensure compliance with the group's compliance manual and relevant operating procedures and manuals for your business line.
• Maintain personal technical competence.
• Report complaints and potential PI issues for your team/direct reports in line with the group's complaints procedures.

Financial Management

• Monitor and manage chargeable hours, utilisation, recoveries, WIP, billing and lock up for you and your team, ensuring where possible lock up is kept to a minimum and clients are billed regularly.
• Monitor and manage time recording for you and your direct reports and ensure prompt submission of time sheets.
• Hold regular financial performance reviews with your direct reports in respect of your client portfolio.

Staff Management & Development

• Act as an effective leader in accordance with the Exceptional Leader profile and competencies.
• Responsible for the day to day management of direct reports.
• Act as mentor and help to develop talent in line with the TBS talent programme.
• Ensure that your own high standards of technical and professional competence are maintained and are developed for other members of your team/direct reports.

• Chartered Accountant and/or Chartered Tax Adviser
• Extensive knowledge and practical experience of business tax services to clients within a variety of sectors, gained within a professional services firm or boutique advisory practice.
• Proven complex client experience and client handling abilities.
• Demonstrable experience of generating and developing new business and key relationships.
• Strong technical leadership.
• Experience and knowledge of staff management.
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills.
• Strong commercial awareness.

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

Morgan McKinley encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities in the UK. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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