The opportunity you've been waiting for
A role that runs compliance and advisory work side by side, based in Glasgow with hybrid working built in. You'll manage an indirect tax compliance function across multiple offices, and carry real responsibility for VAT advisory work alongside Directors and Partners.
You'll take ownership of a client portfolio from start to finish, lead and coach a team of junior tax professionals, and step into advisory engagements covering structuring, transactions and risk mitigation. There's also a clear route into business development, from proposal documents through to client events and technical training.
How you'll make your mark
- Manage the indirect tax compliance function across the offices, allocating work to junior team members as needed.
- Identify issues and opportunities to continuously improve indirect tax compliance processes.
- Manage and support the team across all client work, liaising with the client engagement team to meet every deadline and demand.
- Take ownership of a client portfolio, developing relationships that keep clients satisfied and surface new opportunities to support them.
- Take full ownership of client work delivery from start to finish.
- Manage indirect tax correspondence and resolve client queries promptly, with minimal guidance.
- Review indirect tax compliance work, highlighting where additional support is needed.
- Take responsibility for advisory and project work to a high technical standard, writing clearly and concisely and providing recommendations with minimal guidance.
- Maintain and develop technical knowledge, researching new legislation and identifying opportunities for clients.
- Coach junior team members and develop their technical knowledge, delegating and reviewing work as required.
- Support the leadership team with day-to-day operations, keeping financial and utilisation targets and deadlines on track.
- Build an understanding of the firm's wider services, identifying opportunities for further work and preparing proposal documents for review.
- Support indirect tax business development projects, participating in client events and delivering technical training where required.
- Support Directors and Partners on advisory engagements, leading delivery where appropriate, with clear, commercially focused VAT advice on structuring, transactions and risk mitigation.
- Take ownership of client relationships and ongoing engagements, ensuring high-quality advisory delivery and identifying opportunities to deepen relationships and add value.
- Proactively identify advisory opportunities across the client base and externally, including those arising from changes in HMRC policy, legislation and case law.
What you bring
- Experience working in a similar role.
- Experience of technical compliance and advisory work.
- Strong technical skills, with the appetite to develop them further.
- Ability to build strong client relationships.
- Experience leading teams and coordinating delivery of services.
- Applications will be accepted from experienced Assistant Managers
What's in it for you
This is a firm that backs you well beyond the working day, with a benefits package built around wellbeing, lifestyle and long-term security. Working is hybrid, with flexible hours built into the culture and a real focus on working smarter.
- Annual leave plus public holidays, with the option to buy extra days or carry leave over.
- Enhanced parental leave covering maternity, paternity and adoption.
- A paid volunteering day for a cause that matters to you.
- Private medical insurance, with the option to extend cover to family members.
- 24/7 mental health and wellbeing support through an employee assistance programme.
- Death in service cover, life assurance and a solid pension scheme.
- Modern office space designed for collaboration, focus and wellbeing.
A bit more about the business
This is a professional services firm with an indirect tax team operating across multiple offices. The team covers compliance and advisory work for an established client base, working closely with a client engagement team and reporting into Directors and Partners.
This role exists to give that team a manager who can run compliance day to day and take a genuine share of the advisory and business development work alongside the senior team.
Denholm's take
Indirect tax roles often land on one side of the fence, compliance or advisory. This one sits across both, with direct exposure to Directors and Partners and a real say in client relationships from day one.
If you've got the technical grounding and want a role that doesn't box you into one lane, this is worth a confidential conversation.
