Corporate Tax Manager

As a Corporate Tax Manager, you will lead the delivery of corporate tax services, managing client portfolios and ensuring compliance with UK tax regulations. You will oversee teams, provide technical advice on complex tax matters, and support tax planning and advisory projects. Your role ensures exceptional client service and contributes to business growth.

Is able to respond to client queries relating to role with minimal input from others

Demonstrates a clear understanding of clients’ business, objectives, challenges and risks sufficient to brief more junior colleagues on assignment and direct work accordingly

Demonstrates a broad understanding of client/customer market and environment and understands the importance of driving new business

Manage flexible working of self and assistants based around client needs and business deadlines

Reviews WIP on a monthly basis to ensure that fees are raised for any work that is completed or at a billable stage and that any doubtful time that may not be recovered is adequately provided, by updating CCH with the required provision

Gain experience of winning new work through input into the preparation of proposals, fee quotes and attending client tenders.

Committed to developing knowledge in specialist area and actively communicates/feeds back salient areas to team members

Delivers departmental training and development initiatives

Maintains up to date technical knowledge and awareness of wider business advisory opportunities through technical reading and attending in house departmental seminars, to identify potential issues and emerging opportunities in own and other service areas of the business.

Identifies skills and knowledge gaps in department and actively makes suggestions to resolve

Aware of their unconscious bias and ensures this is appropriately considered throughout the candidate selection and recruitment process. Considers whether candidates fit within the wider Azets values, doesn’t solely focus on technical skills

Takes responsibility for actioning departmental development initiatives

Checking on a weekly basis all staff timesheets ensuring work is posted to correct matter and any unusual non chargeable entries challenged

Takes responsibility for the work flow planning of the team

Demonstrates real enthusiasm and motivation at work and engages in team/corporate activities beyond core role

Identifies, agrees, and delivers personally challenging objectives.

Demonstrates a commitment to developing team members by assigning challenging work ensuring to give support where appropriate and necessary

Empowers team members to think independently

Is able to make rational and informed decisions even if they may appear unpopular

Is able to process constructive feedback and take ownership of their mistakes and performance.

Confident in taking decisions within agreed remit

Deals with instances of colleagues failing to adopt core values and respect by either addressing or escalating to senior team members when aware

Suggests solutions to problems rather than waiting for suggestions from senior colleagues

Supporting managers in delegated aspects of team management such as sickness reporting and holiday approvals. Participate in the interview and selection process for new junior hires.

Challenges and assesses client fee levels against job recovery trends

Challenges existing approaches and offers alternative suggestions to deliver work more efficiently without compromising of quality of output

Champions new technologies aimed at improving quality and efficiency and takes the lead in departmental implementation of them.

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.

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