Transfer Pricing Senior Manager in Manchester

As a Transfer Pricing Senior Manager, you will oversee all areas of TP engagements and will manage key client relationships, mentor teams, and contribute to business development initiatives. Your role drives technical excellence, client satisfaction, and the growth of the tax practice.

Client Focus

• Demonstrates an understanding of client/customer needs not limited to service line.
• Demonstrates exceptional client service (both internal and external) and understands its importance to Azets as well as clients.
• Demonstrates the ability to look forward at industry and wider legislative changes which may affect clients and proactively seeks to offer support where appropriate.
• Can tailor services to match client requirements regarding scope and deliverables, timing and cost of services provided.
• Understands client core priorities and challenges and is able to advise on ways that their internal process and procedures could be reviewed to assist in their achievement.
• Can confidently lead meetings with stakeholders.
• Maintains a regular in-person dialogue with clients as a primary point of contact and uses this to improve client service and identify sales opportunities.

Technical Excellence

• Takes the lead in ensuring team members possess the necessary skills, knowledge and behaviours required to deliver accurate, high-quality work for our clients through identification of and input into development opportunities/training.
• Able to work collaboratively with other service lines on complex issues in order to reach a solution and take the lead in communicating outcomes to clients.
• Proactively communicates news of a technical or topical development within Azets in their areas of specialism.
• Is aware of upcoming changes to applicable legislation/regulation affecting their service line and how this will affect Azets workflow, processes and the scope and approach to client service delivery.

Commitment

• Volunteers to lead or execute tasks that help achieve departmental or office business plan and strategic objectives.
• Builds morale in the wider team, creating a working environment which fosters a positive approach and feeling of achievement and inclusion.
• Proactively and professionally puts forward considered views to drive change and improve processes for the better.

Attention to Detail

• Responsible for quality and takes pride in it at both a team and personal level. Continuous focus on raising team standards to ensure output is of a high quality and well presented.
• Gives meaningful and insightful feedback to all members of the team.
• Acts quickly to resolve quality issues raised and seeks to analyse the cause of such issues to rectify.

Decision Making

• Ensures decisions and judgements are well informed by utilising all available data and information.
• Shows understanding of the implications and consequences of decisions and judgements.
• Can admit and own when they are wrong – responding to such situations in a positive and professional way.
• Genuinely listens to others and is open to changing own mind.
• Takes personal responsibility for following mandatory consulting processes in own service line and encourages compliance by others.

Efficiency

• Role models and motivates others to work efficiently and to embrace new technologies and ways of working to achieve this.
• Encourages and empowers the ideas of team members on improving efficiency and champions these ideas as appropriate.
• Identifies ways in which work delivery can be improved and put ideas into practice, consulting with the wider team as appropriate.

Leading People

• Role models how to celebrate the success of our people.
• Effectively communicates objectives and motivates and supports people through times of change.
• Understands and demonstrates the importance of business needs and the needs of individuals – crucially being able to balance each.
• Is able to deal with poor performance, identifying development needs and supporting individuals to work towards objectives including being responsible for more formal support and monitoring of personal performance plans.
• Acts as a coach and mentor to more junior team members, supporting their management of their own team.
• Is able to mediate internal conflicts where they may arise.
• Demonstrates effective use of delegation and development of staff to achieve departmental strategic goals.

Leading Yourself

• Maintains passion and commitment to goals, in the face of obstacles and frustrations, seeking to understand the reason for these and ways to overcome them.
• Deals with complex challenges and can move difficult and change management strategies forward.
• Demonstrates an awareness of personal development objectives and actively takes steps to challenge themselves to achieve these, identifying where support is needed.
• Identifies, welcomes and is receptive to contributions from all levels and is not closed to new learning opportunities.
• Appreciates and demonstrates the value of delegation to accomplish goals. Is aware that they can’t and shouldn’t do it all.

Driving Business Growth

• Actively increases knowledge and awareness of business and the competitive environment to seek out opportunities.
• Has an established network of specific professional contacts relevant to their work through which business opportunities can arise.
• Identifies opportunities to promote their specialist area to clients, prospects and external professional referrers to generate new referrals and work wins.
• Is aware of team growth targets and understands their role in achieving these.
• Demonstrates the ability to look forward at industry and wider legislative changes which may affect clients and proactively seeks to offer support where appropriate.

Technical Skills

• Is proficient in reviewing tax compliance and complex advisory work, and as such is able to present assignments to the director/partner in complete form.
• Takes a lead role on most technical tax engagements, other than the most complex, limiting director/partner input to focus on the high-risk areas of assignments.
• Be in control of entirety of service delivery to client in relation to these assignments, working directly with leaders in other service lines, as appropriate.
• Be seen as a leader in the team, service line and business, spearheading both Azets UK and local initiatives.
• Is able to build and foster team spirit, by engaging directly with the team members and taking responsibility for team events, both from a social and technical development perspective.
• Embraces the use of new technologies which are specific to tax assignments, promoting innovation and effective use amongst the wider team.
• Able to balance risk against efficiency, without compromising quality.
• Has a strong grasp of ethical implications and considerations concerning tax assignments and client services, taking prompt, pre-emptive action where necessary.
• Takes the lead with resource management and can adapt to dynamic statutory deadlines, requirements of other service lines and project timetable changes.
• Communicates regularly with other senior management regarding resource levels and foreseeable challenges.
• Ensures that the team are used according to their skillsets and interests so that they are developing and engaged in the work they do.
• Builds own internal network with peers across all service lines, supporting with technical advice and gaining better understanding of opportunities to work together on client work.
• Encourages resource sharing across offices as appropriate to ensure work is staffed appropriately.
• Builds strong relationships with clients and other professional advisors, starting to establish an external network of potential referrers.

Skills and Experience

• Holds an accountancy and/or tax qualification or qualified by experience (e.g. ATT/CTA/ACA/ACCA/CA).
• Expected to have at least 8 years of experience in transfer pricing advisory.

Benefits

Our benefits include hybrid & flexible working, birthday leave, professional subscription and much more. You can find out more about how we reward our colleagues.

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