Corporate and International Tax Director

Corporate and International Tax Director The Role As a Corporate Tax Director, you provide strategic leadership on tax matters, managing and delivering tax advisory projects as well as ensuring the Bicester clients maintain compliance with UK tax regulations. You will drive business development, offer expert tax planning advice, and deliver revenue and profitability targets. Your role focuses on delivering exceptional client service and advancing the firm’s growth and reputation.Core Skills Client FocusLead on managing and building client relationships with Azets clients with responsibility for developing relationships on key clientsIdentifies and delivers service improvementsDemonstrates a deep understanding of client underlying future needsUnderstands current & future forces that will shape and influence clients' needsUses a variety of influence approaches for strategic impactMakes decisions based on maintaining long term relationshipsDelivers excellent client satisfaction as measured by relevant KPIsManages client complaints in accordance with Azets processesTakes the lead on cross service line delivery on own client base.Technical ExcellenceRecognised as a technical expertProvides oversight and takes responsibility for ensuring we deliver accurate, high quality work for our clients and assesses future technical or regulatory developments and takes steps to address any gapsHave 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 lineThinks beyond own area to develop capabilityEnsures that quality is beyond a minimum level, with adherence to key processes and ensuring appropriate training is undertakenCommitmentProactive leadership of tasks to achieve business planCreates and maintains positive environmentAble to look holistically at department to promote wellbeing, and a collaborative environmentLeading by example and consistently setting high standards for professionalism and ethical behaviourChampions the Azets brand, building on our portfolio of services, values, reputation, and market profileAttention to DetailEncourages team to raise standards and eliminate errorsTracks and acts on quality issuesIs transparent and shares information with colleagues which could benefit the business, working with the partners in the teamIs aware of the skills and abilities of those around them, communicating tasks clearly with deadlines and supporting through to completionCommunicates the bigger picture and objectives of an assignment and is able to strike a balance between seeking further detail and an efficient and commercial outputActively takes part in and contributes to the development of Azets quality monitoring processes in own part of the business.Deals effectively with conflicting objectives, priorities and agendasLeads the way with digital transformation initiatives through clear understanding of the program and embedding throughout their teamIs able to critically assess effective use of time, for example ensuring all meetings have a defined purpose and agreed output.Key accountabilities Decision MakingTakes a dynamic and flexible approach to decision making, using live data to recognise when different approaches are requiredHolds genuinely open discussions, listens to others views, and show a willingness to compromiseIs able to present a range of possible decision making options to stakeholders, highlighting the positive and negative implications of each to reach a decisionIs able to identify and extract relevant data to support a decision from a large volume and wide range of sourcesConsistently demonstrates awareness and sound judgement on decisions which are able to be made autonomously and escalates those that cannot to more senior stakeholdersLeading PeopleCommunicates direction clearly and brings colleagues along on the journey balancing business priorities and people priorities with respectTrusts and appropriately empowers team membersPromotes a culture of openness and trustActively looks for opportunities to develop others, gives responsibility to others and willingly delegates as appropriateComfortable in voicing opinions that may conflict with the status quoBuilds empathy and support to ensure buy-in and ownership of ideasAlways upholds and demonstrates integrityLeading YourselfIs able to lead to achieve resolution of complex challengesStays true to leadership style even when under pressureCan step outside comfort zone and actively pursues new challenges and opportunities that support the businessLead by example by openly pursuing continuous personal and professional development and demonstrates self-awarenessDemonstrates resilience but is able to recognise own limitations and draws on and is accepting of support from own network when required.Driving Business GrowthStrategically develops and refines own external network and shows evidence of winning work from this network for own team and for Azets more widelyLeads and builds client portfolio, demonstrating fee growth from existing services and evidence of successfully introducing new servicesCan identify the commercial realities of a client engagement and is able to seek agreement across service lines on approach to fee setting and fee growthIs able to articulate the value proposition for the services the team delivers to support fee growthUses chain of indirect influence. This may include the use of technical experts to help sell a concept by adding credibilityTakes the lead on ensuring minimum pricing initiatives are followed and is proactive in RRR reviews.Living Our ValuesShows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behavioursTechnical SkillsActs as an engagement lead on most corporate tax advisory assignments, for the Bicester office including some complex and larger assignments with limited support from Tax Partners. Able to anticipate issues and risks with tax engagements and take timely action to address theseThe Bicester portfolio of clients has an emphasis on the software and technology sector, therefore a broad understanding of this sector would be useful.Has detailed knowledge and experience in tax issues that typically impact international groups operating in the UK; areas such as share options, loan relationships, thin capitalisation, group restructures, corporate interest restriction, country by country reporting etcWorks with other tax specialists and other service lines seamlessly to provide a joined up service to clients. Demonstrates appropriate oversight and responsibility as one of the main leads of the client relationship team, showing strong project management skills when required to co-ordinate teams to deliver projectsProactively keeps 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 opportunitiesLeading the way for change, innovation and technological advances within the tax department, by using the most appropriate technologies and processes for tax assignments, and demonstrating where they can improve quality and efficienciesResponsible for promoting quality controls within the tax department at a regional levelContinuously looking for opportunities to expand both internal & external networks, both in terms of potential referrers but also opportunities to showcase the firm's service offerings (for example, presentations to external firms).Qualifications Holds a tax qualification or qualified by experience (e.g. ATT/CTA).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

Created: 2026-03-18