The Role
As an Employer Solutions Tax Manager, you lead the preparation and review of tax filings related to employee benefits and payroll taxes, ensuring compliance with UK tax regulations. You will manage client portfolios, provide strategic advice on complex employment tax issues, and oversee a team. Your role ensures accurate reporting, effective tax planning, and helps clients manage their employment tax obligations efficiently.
Core Skills
Client Focus
* 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.
Technical Excellence
* 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.
Commitment
* 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.
Attention to Detail
* 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.
Decision Making
* 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.
Efficiency
* 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.
Living Our Values
* 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.
Technical Skills
* Review complex employment tax returns
* Provide review comments to Assistant Manager / Senior
* Review complex employment tax returns / transmittal letters and approve for issue to client
* Keep overview of work delegated and follow up on progress
* Actively manage WIP and fee scoping when undertaking work and recognise potential scope creep so fees can be discussed in a timely manner and in advance of work
* Show evidence of a broad network of Azets colleagues to identify new work opportunities for the team
* Managing a team of people, delegating appropriately, ensuring team as a whole have the required skills and exposure to work
* Generating leads with potential new clients and winning work
Qualifications
Holds a accountancy and/or tax qualification or qualified by experience (e.g. ATT/CTA/ACA/ACCA/CA).
Essential Experience
It is expected that the above core and technical skills will have been developed through study alongside work experience in an accountancy practice.
Job Reference: AZ04631