Deloitte
Director, Private Client Services Tax
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Due to exceptional growth, Deloitte’s market-leading Private Client Services (“PCS”) team in Reading is seeking an accomplished Director. This pivotal role will be instrumental in shaping the strategic direction and driving the continued expansion of the practice.
This presents a significant opportunity for a highly accomplished PCS professional to join our leadership team. You will be instrumental in cultivating and sustaining robust, long-term client relationships as a trusted advisor, leveraging your deep expertise to drive innovation and accelerate growth.
Working closely with the Reading-based UK leader of Deloitte’s PCS practice, you will lead the delivery of complex and strategic tax advice to an enviable portfolio of private clients. This includes entrepreneurs, private business owners, domestic and international family groups, and ultra/high-net-worth individuals and their family offices.
You will play a crucial leadership role in client service delivery, driving significant business growth, and building a high-performing team. This encompasses proactively identifying and securing new engagements, enhancing personal and firm eminence, and directly contributing to and shaping the strategic direction of the practice.
Deloitte PCS is truly a UK-wide practice, with extensive collaboration between London and regional offices, this providing the successful candidate with the opportunity to work with multiple Partners and form great working relationships beyond their immediate office location.
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Successful candidates will possess:
- Extensive experience in a leading practice or family office, demonstrating readiness for senior leadership.
- Full ICAEW or CTA qualification (or equivalent), with proven technical excellence in advising clients with complex financial affairs.
- Exceptional strategic planning and prioritisation skills to manage significant client portfolios and team resources.
- Proven ability to cultivate and sustain robust, long-term client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor.
- Exceptional drive and entrepreneurial spirit to exceed client expectations and innovate service delivery.
- Established track record as a work winner, securing new engagements and growing client portfolios.
- Deep understanding of the private client market, with a strategic vision for growth.
- Highly developed communication and presentation skills.
- Exceptional business acumen and acute commercial awareness.
- Proven ability to build strong, collaborative relationships across the firm and external networks.
- Extensive experience in leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams, fostering an inclusive culture and environment.
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Your role and responsibilities within our team will include:
- Providing exemplary leadership and acting as a role model, offering technical and soft skills guidance to the team.
- Assisting the Partner in the strategic leadership and management of the team, driving entrepreneurial behaviours and challenging the status quo to enhance practice efficiency and growth.
- Fostering an environment of technical and commercial excellence.
- Identifying and capitalising on commercial opportunities, driving initiatives to develop new services or exploit underserviced markets.
- Contributing to the strategic direction of the group by leveraging a deep understanding of market opportunities and challenges.
- Leading the delivery of complex and strategic tax advice to key clients, often involving cross-jurisdictional and multi-competency solutions.
- Proactively identifying and pursuing opportunities to cross-sell Deloitte’s full portfolio of services to clients.
- Establishing and nurturing strong, long-term client relationships that generate a consistent stream of income for the firm.
- Driving business growth by winning new work from both existing and new clients, including expanding existing client portfolios and introducing new services.
- Building and enhancing personal brand and eminence, both internally and externally, to cultivate a network of contacts who regularly refer projects and clients.
- Building, coaching, and developing more junior members of the team, fostering their professional growth and technical capabilities.
- Ensuring consistent achievement of billing and cash targets, and implementing measures to improve gross margin.
- Managing risk appropriately for both clients and the firm, ensuring adherence to all risk procedures.
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Our hybrid working policy
You’ll be based in Reading with hybrid working.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
BASIC INFORMATION
Location: Reading
Business Line: Tax & Legal
Job Type: Permanent / FTC
Date published: 16-Sep-2026
Req #: 22717
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