OMB Corporate Tax Director

The Role As a Corporate Tax Director, you provide strategic leadership on tax matters, overseeing major client portfolios and ensuring compliance with UK tax regulations. You will drive business development, offer expert tax planning advice, and mentor senior team members. Your role focuses on delivering exceptional client service and advancing the firm’s growth and reputation. Core Skills Client Focus Take the lead on managing and building client relationships with Azets clients with responsibility for developing relationships on key clients Identify and deliver service improvements Demonstrate a deep understanding of client underlying future needs Understand current & future forces that will shape and influence clients' needs Use a variety of influence approaches for strategic impact Make decisions based on maintaining long‑term relationships Deliver excellent client satisfaction as measured by relevant KPIs Manage client complaints in accordance with Azets processes Technical Excellence Takes the lead on cross service line delivery on own client base Recognised as a technical expert Provides oversight and takes responsibility for ensuring that team members possess the necessary skills, knowledge and behaviours required to deliver accurate, high‑quality work, and assess the team’s ability to deal with future technical or regulatory developments, taking steps to address any skill gaps including managing talent/resource and software planning Have a broad knowledge of the more technical aspects of other services lines – be able to spot and talk at a high level about matters outside of own service line Think beyond own area to develop capability Ensures that quality is beyond a minimum level, with adherence to key processes and ensuring appropriate training is undertaken Commitment Proactive leadership of tasks to achieve business plan Creates and maintains a positive environment Look holistically at department to promote wellbeing and a collaborative environment Pick up on the ‘mood’ of the business and take steps to raise team morale as appropriate Lead by example and consistently set high standards for professionalism and ethical behaviour Champion the Azets brand, building on our portfolio of services, values, reputation, and market profile Support the continued development of a consistent and unified Azets brand, strategy and values and challenge colleagues and clients who are not demonstrating these behaviours Attention to Detail Encourage the team to raise standards and eliminate errors Track and act on quality issues Be transparent and share information with colleagues that could benefit the business, working with the partners in the team Be aware of the skills and abilities of those around them; communicate tasks clearly with deadlines and support through to completion Communicate to the team the bigger picture and objectives of an assignment and be able to strike a balance between seeking further detail and an efficient and commercial output Actively take part in and contribute to the development of Azets quality monitoring processes in own part of the business Efficiency Deal effectively with conflicting objectives, priorities and agendas Draw upon organisational data, understanding of market trends, and latest thinking to identify and take forward ideas for improvements and efficiencies Lead the way with digital transformation initiatives through clear understanding of the program and embedding throughout their team Critically assess effective use of time, for example ensuring all meetings have a defined purpose and agreed output Key Accountabilities Decision Making Takes a dynamic and flexible approach to decision making, using live data to recognise when different approaches are required Hold genuinely open discussions, listen to others’ views, and show a willingness to compromise Present a range of possible decision making options to stakeholders, highlighting the positive and negative implications of each to reach a decision Identify and extract relevant data to support a decision from a large volume and wide range of sources Consistently demonstrate awareness and sound judgement on decisions that can be made autonomously, and escalates those that cannot to more senior stakeholders Actively review and adapt past decisions where data suggests original expectations are not being met Leading People Communicate direction clearly and bring colleagues along on the journey, balancing business priorities and people priorities with respect Trust and appropriately empower team members Promote a culture of openness and trust Actively look for opportunities to develop others, give responsibility to others and willingly delegate as appropriate Comfortable in voicing opinions that may conflict with the status quo Build empathy and support to ensure buy‑in and ownership of ideas Always uphold and demonstrate integrity Have oversight of wider team’s development and their future career progression, and lead the support strategies Leading Yourself Lead a team to achieve resolution of complex challenges Stay true to leadership style even when under pressure Step outside comfort zone and actively pursue new challenges and opportunities that support the business Lead by example by openly pursuing continuous personal and professional development and demonstrate self‑awareness Demonstrate resilience, yet recognise own limitations and draw on and accept support from own network when required Driving Business Growth Strategically develop and refine own external network and show evidence of winning work from this network for own team and for Azets more widely Critically assess the value of business development efforts and take steps to refine own and team strategies that are underperforming Lead and build own client portfolio, demonstrating fee growth from existing services and evidence of successfully introducing new services Identify the commercial realities of a client engagement and seek agreement across service lines on approach to fee setting and fee growth Articulate the value proposition for the services the team delivers to support fee growth Use chain of indirect influence; this may include the use of technical experts to help sell a concept by adding credibility Take the lead on ensuring minimum pricing initiatives are followed and be proactive in RRR reviews Living Our Values New to Azets: Show good understanding of our company values, and make good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours Existing Colleague: Consistently ‘lives our values’ Technical Skills Act as an engagement lead on most tax assignments, including some complex and larger assignments with limited support from the tax partner. Able to anticipate issues and risks with tax engagements and take timely action to address these Work with tax specialists and other service lines seamlessly to provide a joined‑up service to clients. Demonstrate appropriate oversight and responsibility as one of the main leads of the client relationship team, showing strong project management skills when required to coordinate teams to deliver projects Proactively keep on top of key developments across both the tax service line and the wider firm, to identify cross‑selling opportunities for existing and new clients. Confident to discuss most areas of taxation with clients, bringing in appropriate tax specialists as appropriate and maximising cross‑selling opportunities Actively involved in supporting peers and partners with department strategy and future planning, having responsibility for a specific area within the department (for example, finance or people) Lead the way for change, innovation and technological advances within the tax department, by using the most appropriate technologies and processes for tax assignments, and demonstrate where they can improve quality and efficiencies Be responsible for promoting quality controls within the tax department at a regional level Work with managers to identify higher performers and support development in line with Career Pathways to help retain key team members. Support managers in addressing underperformance or inefficiencies within the team, and if required, performance improvement consultations Actively support the tax partners with recruitment and building a team to fit the requirements of the service line. Be able to forecast resource and development requirements and identify possible solutions Continuously look for opportunities to expand both internal & external networks, both in terms of potential referrers but also opportunities to showcase the team’s service offerings (for example, presentations to external firms). Qualifications Holds an 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr