Tax Senior Manager – St Albans / Watford recruitment

KPMG's Tax and Pensions practice is one of the leading names in the UK Tax services market and is the largest non-audit practice in KPMG LLP and the UK. As such we can offer you the business challenge and career opportunity you are seeking, in an uplifting, team-based environment. Recent Industry awards reflect our success which we strive to continually improve. We are currently looking to recruit a Senior Manager to work as part of our Corporate Tax function across our Milton Keynes and St Albans offices.

Our Milton Keynes and St Albans tax practices work closely together and you will enjoy the benefits and opportunities of working in a medium-sized team of circa 30 people. The department has experienced growth over the last 5 years and now requires a further SM to help the practice continue its ambitious growth targets. Your portfolio of clients will include a wide variety of FTSE 350 organisations to owner managed businesses. You will work closely with clients, audit teams and other members of the department as well as industry/area specialists within the Firm. With the bias of the practice weighted heavily towards advisory and transaction work together with the desire to continue to achieve its growth aspirations, excellent client interaction and communication skills are vital. In Milton Keynes and St Albans we offer a stimulating, supportive and open culture where our people are treated as individuals.

** Please note that the St Albans office is relocating to Watford in Spring 2012 **

Roles and Responsibilities

- Maintaining and developing good relationships with clients and providing high levels of client service
Contributing to winning work by proactively managing existing clients and developing opportunities to win new clients
- Generating maximum value for both KPMG and clients from the tax services delivered
- Developing and delivering value from external relationships for the tax practice and KPMG's other lines of service
- Initiating and running advisory projects and transaction work
- Undertaking a high level review of computations, replies to HM Revenue Customs queries etc before they are finalised
- Understanding technical matters and presenting them in a comprehensive and practical way
- Coaching and development of junior members of the department
- Sharing the management of the tax team both in terms of strategy and operations.

Qualifications and Skills

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively be part of the leadership of the team. Specific requirements for this role include:

- A relevant finance (ACA/CA or ACCA) or tax (CTA) qualification or a qualified tax inspector
- Appropriate tax experience Client driven and commercially aware
- Strong accounting skills
- Proven experience of managing a portfolio of clients and working in client service teams
- Sound judgment, including the ability to identify risk issues, knowing when to involve more senior staff etc
- Excellent communication skills in a range of situations both written and oral
- Good negotiation skills, able to sustain opinion and handle challenges
- Strong client relationship skills with ability to deliver quality outputs to clients
- Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
- Good team player with ability to create, sustain and lead effective teams
- Project / financial management, plan and monitor deliverables, approach, budget and timescales
- Manage time effectively and able to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
- Ability to inspire confidence in others