Corporate Tax Director in Leeds

The role is part of our growth strategy, where we are looking to recruit an experienced Corporate Tax Director. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing our corporate tax offering in the local market as well as helping our existing clients with corporate tax matters, such as tax advisory and transaction services, corporate tax compliance and reporting obligations.

The responsibilities include:

• Frequently dealing with challenging technical issues.
• Developing relationships and new business opportunities to provide a range of tax and other services.
• Overall responsibility and accountability for a group of clients, with excellent technical expertise in your field.
• Leading and managing the relationship with clients, aiming to develop new business from your current client base and beyond.
• 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.
• Working with our internal fee earning partners to develop our go to market strategy.

The team:

Our Corporate Tax team spans our 9 office locations and comprises 7 partners and over 100 professionals. The Corporate Tax teams deal with a large portfolio of companies operating in a variety of sectors, including manufacturing, technology, retail, recruitment, financial services, hospitality and property.

You:

The role would suit a qualified individual (for example ACA/ACCA/CTA) with several years post qualification experience in corporation tax. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Strong UK tax technical skills.
• Ability to analyse tax technical queries and provide robust advice and solutions.
• Project management skills, with the ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines and monitor budgets.
• Responsibility for the delivery and quality of work.
• Excellent communication skills.
• A clear client focus with a commitment to building strong client relationships.
• Ability to work collaboratively with different teams.
• Coaching and mentoring skills to develop other team members.

Reward and benefits:

A 35 hour working week with a hybrid working policy allowing flexibility to work from home for up to three days per week (our core hours are 10-4); Excellent benefits including contributory pension scheme, 27 days annual leave, Life Assurance cover and great flexible benefits and family friendly policies; Eligibility for the firm's Profit-Sharing Plan, paid in December; and eligibility for the discretionary bonus scheme.

About us:

Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing market-leading accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax and VAT services. Founded in 1855, we are the UK's 15th largest accountancy firm. We are committed to our clients, but also to our greatest asset - our people.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:

Equality, diversity and inclusion is a top priority for us. With our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we are building on our positive work culture and implementing initiatives to improve diversity and strengthen our equitable culture of inclusion. We hope you will apply to us, whatever your background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability or neurodivergence, because individual differences equal collective strength.