The Role
Aa a Corporate Tax Senior Manager, you will oversee complex tax engagements, providing strategic advice on corporate tax compliance and planning. You will manage key client relationships, mentor teams, and contribute to business development initiatives. Your role drives technical excellence, client satisfaction, and the growth of the tax practice.
Core Skills
Client Focus
- Demonstrates an understanding of client/customer needs not limited to service line
- Demonstrates exceptional client service (both internal and external) and understands its importance to Azets as well as clients
- 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
- Is able to tailor services to match client requirements in regard to scope and deliverables, timing and cost of services provided
- Understands client core priorities and challenges and is able to advise on ways that their internal process and procedures could be reviewed to assist in their achievement
- Is able to confidently lead meetings with stakeholders
- Maintains a regular in-person dialogue with clients as a primary point of contact and uses this to improve client service and identify sales opportunities.
Technical Excellence
- Takes the lead in ensuring team members possess the necessary skills, knowledge and behaviours required to deliver accurate, high quality work for our clients through identification of and input into development opportunities / training
- Able to work collaboratively with other service lines on complex issues in order to reach a solution and takes the lead in communicating outcomes to clients
- Proactively communicates news of a technical or topical development within Azets in their areas of specialism
- Is aware of upcoming changes to applicable legislation / regulation affecting their service line and how this will affect Azets workflow, processes and the scope and approach to client service delivery.
Commitment
- Volunteers to lead or execute tasks that help achievement of departmental or office business plan and strategic objectives
- Builds morale in the wider team creating a working environment which fosters a positive approach and feeling of achievement and inclusion
- Proactively and professionally puts forward considered views to drive change and improve processes for the better.
Attention to Detail
- Responsible for quality and takes pride in it at both a team and personal level. Continuous focus on raising team standards to ensure output is of a high quality and well presented
- Gives meaningful and insightful feedback to all members of the team
- Acts quickly to resolve quality issues raised and seeks to analyse the cause of such issues to rectify.
Decision Making
- Ensures decisions and judgements are well informed by utilising all available data and information
- Shows understanding of the implications and consequences of decisions and judgements
- Can admit and own when they are wrong – responding to such situations in a positive and professional way
- Genuinely listens to others and is open to changing own mind