Senior Manager / Director - Corporate Tax/Business Services

Our client is the Director of an Accountants & Business Advisers to internationally operating
businesses

Senior Manager/ Associate Director / Director - Corporate Tax/Business Services

Up to GBP 100,000 package - with great potential for advancement

Reporting to the Director

Role

The initial duties would be along these lines:

• Generally managing the clients (mainly business services clients)
• Providing UK-related tax services to internationally operating businesses
• Covering corporate and personal tax advice as well as some VAT advice
• Providing UK-related international tax advice, to inbound investors and to UK-based businesses expanding abroad
• Reviewing tax returns
• Generally running the office and attending to duties as may be required, bearing in mind we are a small office - at least for now

Once you have settled in you would also be involved in the following:

• Assistance with recruiting tax and business services staff
• Supervising staff
• Monitoring productivity
• Client invoicing and collections
• Providing fee estimates and quotes to potential and existing clients
• Business development - participation in presentations via webinars, exploiting our existing data-base and contacts and following up on leads generated by others, but at the same time making a start with regards to developing (or expanding) your own network

Professional characteristics

It is essential that you:

• are a UK qualified accountant or an accountant who is a qualified tax adviser
• have at least some experience with all of the types of work listed under 'Role'
• have at least seven years recent experience in an advisory capacity with a UK professional services firm
• have had at least three years recent significant tax advisory experience
• are currently working in the tax advisory field
• have excellent IT skills
• are able to command the respect of clients (especially UK and other Western European based clients and clients from North America and Australia) with your knowledge of areas of business, economics and politics relevant to the UK

An advantage if:

• you speak another major language
• you have lived in another country

Personal characteristics

• You are ambitious, self-motivated, energetic
• You enjoy travel and have no problems travelling abroad subject to coronavirus related complications
• You are healthy, social, team-minded and outgoing

What they offer

• Genuine opportunities for rapid advancement - and expansion of your areas of expertise
• Opportunity, in the very short-term, to become the 'Country Manager' / 'Office Head' / 'Partner in Charge'
• An exciting position with a dynamic, globally orientated firm that accepts completely that staff are more important than clients
• An opportunity to significantly develop your professional skills and network
• Opportunities to work abroad
• A very international environment including some overseas travel - meeting clients, potential clients, referrers of business, government organisations, colleagues in other offices
• Close interaction with colleagues in offices abroad
• Daily interaction with the overseas head office of clients with UK subsidiaries

Contact and applications

They also like to hear about your interests and hobbies and your non-work achievements.

Appendix - what we offer

Interaction with people and businesses from many countries

• our clientsAccountants UK works exclusively with internationally operating businesses
• Including overseas-based business with UK subsidiaries - and UK businesses with operations (or expanding) abroad
• The overseas-based business are SMEs (and sometimes larger) from many countries, in particular from Australia, North America (especially the US) and Western Europe, investing in the UK
• All our overseas-based clients plan to do or are already doing business in or with the United Kingdom and range from those with substantial operating subsidiaries in the UK to those merely exporting or with just a single employee in the UK
• Our clients operate in a wide range of business sectors
• You will also liaise with existing colleagues in various countries - and be involved in setting up offices in other countries

Variety of work - and choices

• To begin with, you will be exposed to a substantial variety of work
• You will interact with colleagues, suppliers and others based in several countries
• our client is a growing firm, with new clients and enquiries coming in every day
• We plan to open offices in several larger countries in the near future
• You would have the opportunity to grow rapidly with the firm
• You would have the opportunity of working in one of our offices abroad

An opportunity to significantly develop - and to develop many skills

• You would not only be able to cultivate your current skills, but we would assist you in developing new skills
• We would actively assist in your general development - with your work management, managerial skills, IT skills, etc
• We are always very keen to assist our colleagues with external training

A very international environment including some international travel

• You would regularly work with your colleagues in our other offices
• We expect to open at least 3-4 new offices in other countries in the next 2-3 years
• Not only does the local office work as a team but the group works as a team and people from one office assist other offices in other countries

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