VAT Director - Financial Services

A leading Top 5 Accounting firm are recruiting for a VAT Director focusing on Financial Services to join their team in Central London. The team consists of a mixture of home grown talent and external hires whom are lead by 5 Partners,

As a VAT Director you will utilise a commercial approach when developing and maintaining client relationships, and you will take the lead on a variety of interesting, often complex advisory projects and technical assignments.

Your responsibilities as a VAT Director will include:

• There will be an expectation that you will take full responsibility for project delivery on your portfolio
• Review of work prepared by more junior members of staff
• Liaise with HMRC
• To ensure assignments are completed within agreed budgets and keep client/Partner informed of changes in scope / overruns and plan staff assignments in order to give an appropriate spread of experience
• Identify risk and technical matters, as well as selling opportunities, to the Partner, whilst exercising judgement within agreed parameters.
• Provide overall support to Partners on client matters and assist Partners in the management and leadership of the group, this will include support at times for the recruitment and management of staff
• A key skill will be the ability to recognise business development opportunities and inform and work with the Partner and the client to develop these when they arise
• Develop contact with clients at senior level and maintain contact with other levels as appropriate to ensure the firm has the confidence of the client

About you:

• Significant understanding of and previous experience within UK VAT.
• In-depth knowledge of recent key updates and areas of focus in Financial Services VAT
• Responsibility for review of VAT compliance for own portfolio and involved in any VAT advice required by your clients, by delegating and developing the juniors in the team in delivering this
• Ability to manage a large and varied client portfolio
• Ability to actively seek opportunities for selling new services to existing clients
• Experience of dealing direct with HMRC
• Experience of dealing with client senior management and collaborating with our wider FS tax team
• Ideally CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent