Indirect Tax Manager

We are working with a leading global consulting firm in London, UK that is looking for Indirect Tax Managers and Senior Managers to join it's growing Financial Services Tax practice.

This role will be a springboard to a successful career in FS, with an abundance of opportunity for internal promotions and development. With a top tier client portfolio, this is an excellent practice to join, but also a place where you can learn and build upon your understanding of a broad range of Indirect Tax concepts to develop your career as a skilled and trusted tax professional.

Your key responsibilities

• Ability to build and strong client relationships with evidence of go to market
• Ensure delivery of quality work and take day to day management of delivery team
• Help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
• Contribute to people initiatives, including retaining and training international tax professionals
• Significant involvement in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignment
• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide exceptional levels of client service
• Negotiation skills, able to gain buy-in and handle challenges
• Business development skills – able to identify and convert opportunities by proactively managing existing client relationships and winning new clients
• Management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business driven approach taken
• Overall responsibility of quality of client service
• Manage possible leads from other areas of the practice
• Build networks and relationships internally and externally for the team to leverage from

Applicants must have the following:

• Must posses right to work status in the UK, sponsorship is not offered
• Appropriate experience working within Financial Services particularly wealth and asset management, including real estate
• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
• ACA/ACCA/CA or comparable qualification; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training course; or Law qualification. CTA (or breadth of knowledge and experience equivalent to CTA).
• Ability to build strong client relationships and commercially aware.
• Negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Strong practical and commercial experience having advised clients, or worked ‘in-house’
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral
• Team player with ability to create, sustain and manage effective, inclusive teams