Corporate Tax Associate Director

About us

Azets are a leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisers operating across the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, we have over a wide network of employees and an abundance of inspiring opportunities to join one of our many offices

We are a top ten accountancy firm in the UK and are the number one largest SME practice.

The role

As a Corporation Tax Senior Manager or Associate Director, you will oversee complex large corporate tax engagements, providing strategic advice on tax planning and compliance. You will manage key client relationships, mentor teams, and contribute to business development initiatives. Your role ensures technical excellence, client satisfaction, and supports the growth of the tax practice.

Key accountabilities

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 puts 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 cannot and should not do it all.

Driving Business Growth

• Actively increases knowledge and awareness of business and 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 with the aim of generating 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 (or otherwise) changes which may affect clients and proactively seeks to offer support where appropriate.

Living Our Values

• New to Azets: Shows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours
• Existing Colleague: Consistently 'lives our values' - demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our company values

Skills & experience

• Proficient in reviewing final tax packs/transmittal letters for high risk Corporation Tax clients
• Proficient in preparing final tax packs/transmittal letters for higher risk Corporation Tax clients
• Takes the lead on most technical work, other than the most complex, limiting director/partner input to higher risk matters
• Builds and fosters a good team spirit by engaging directly with team members and taking responsibility for team building events e.g. social events and activities, as well as general team spirit
• Arranges team meetings, providing agendas and sourcing matters for discussion
• Promotes a culture within the team of keeping on top of legislative changes. Actively organises training sessions for the team and regularly shares guidance / training material around the team to help with this
• Is in control of resource management, communicates regularly with other senior management as to team capacity. Also tries to ensure that the team are used according to their skillsets and work is carried out at the appropriate level
• Is confident and actively building strong relationships with clients
• Be seen as a leader in the department.

Holds a tax and/or accountancy qualification (e.g. CTA/ACA/ACCA/CA).

It is expected that the above core and technical skills will have been developed through study alongside work experience in an accountancy practice.

Job Reference: AZ04686