AJ Chambers ®
Corporate Tax Senior Manager
London
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Corporate Tax Senior Manager
Role Overview
As 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. The role involves driving technical excellence, maintaining high standards of client service and supporting the growth of the tax practice.
Core Skills
Client Focus
- Understand client needs across service lines and deliver exceptional service to internal and external stakeholders.
- Monitor industry developments and legislative changes that may affect clients, proactively identifying opportunities to provide support.
- Tailor services to client requirements, including scope, deliverables, timing and cost.
- Understand clients' priorities and challenges, advising on improvements to internal processes and procedures.
- Confidently lead meetings with clients and other stakeholders.
- Maintain regular client contact as a primary point of contact, using these relationships to improve service and identify commercial opportunities.
Technical Excellence
- Identify development and training opportunities to ensure team members have the skills and knowledge required to deliver high-quality work.
- Collaborate with other service lines on complex issues and take responsibility for communicating outcomes to clients.
- Share relevant technical and legislative developments with colleagues.
- Anticipate regulatory and legislative changes and understand their impact on workflows, processes and client service delivery.
Commitment & Continuous Improvement
- Take ownership of initiatives that contribute to departmental and business objectives.
- Build morale and foster an inclusive, positive working environment.
- Put forward considered recommendations to improve processes and drive change.
Quality & Attention to Detail
- Take responsibility for the quality of personal and team output, maintaining consistently high standards.
- Provide meaningful and constructive feedback to team members.
- Address quality issues promptly, identifying underlying causes and implementing improvements.
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Decision Making
- Make informed decisions using available data and information.
- Understand the implications and consequences of professional judgements.
- Take ownership of mistakes and respond constructively.
- Listen to colleagues and remain open to alternative perspectives.
- Follow mandatory professional and consulting procedures and encourage compliance across the team.
Efficiency & Innovation
- Promote efficient working practices and the effective use of technology.
- Encourage team members to contribute ideas for improving efficiency.
- Identify and implement improvements to work delivery in collaboration with colleagues.
Leading People
- Recognise and celebrate team achievements.
- Communicate objectives clearly and support individuals through periods of change.
- Balance business requirements with individual development and wellbeing.
- Address performance issues, identify development needs and support individuals through performance improvement plans.
- Coach and mentor junior colleagues, supporting their development as managers.
- Mediate internal conflicts where necessary.
- Delegate effectively and develop staff to support departmental objectives.
Personal Leadership
- Maintain commitment to objectives when faced with challenges and identify ways to overcome obstacles.
- Manage complex challenges and support change initiatives.
- Take ownership of personal development and actively pursue opportunities to develop.
- Welcome contributions from colleagues at all levels and remain receptive to learning.
- Recognise the value of delegation in achieving objectives.
Driving Business Growth
- Develop an understanding of the business and competitive environment to identify commercial opportunities.
- Maintain a professional network relevant to the tax practice.
- Promote specialist tax services to clients, prospective clients and external professional referrers to generate new business.
- Understand team growth targets and contribute towards achieving them.
- Monitor industry and legislative developments to identify opportunities to support clients.
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Professional Values
- Demonstrate professional integrity and behaviours consistent with the organisation's values.
- Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive and supportive working environment.
Technical Skills
- Review complex tax compliance and advisory work, presenting assignments to Directors or Partners in a complete form. Resolve routine review points and ensure that matters escalated are primarily of a complex technical nature.
- Lead the majority of technical tax engagements, escalating high-risk or particularly complex matters to senior leadership.
- Maintain responsibility for service delivery, working directly with leaders across other service lines where appropriate.
- Act as a senior figure within the tax team, contributing to local and wider business initiatives and supporting team development, technical training and engagement.
- Promote the effective use of tax-specific technology and encourage innovation across the team.
- Balance risk, efficiency and quality, demonstrating a strong understanding of ethical considerations and taking proactive action where required.
- Lead resource management, adapting to statutory deadlines, changing project timetables and requirements across service lines.
- Communicate resource requirements and potential challenges to senior management, ensuring work is allocated according to team members' skills, interests and development needs.
- Build internal relationships across service lines to support technical collaboration and identify opportunities for joint client work.
- Encourage resource sharing across offices where appropriate.
- Develop strong relationships with clients and professional advisers, establishing an external network of potential referrers.
Qualifications
- Holds an accountancy and/or tax qualification, or is qualified by experience.
- Relevant qualifications include ATT, CTA, ACA, ACCA or CA.
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